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Cahiers Du Monde Russe Russie - Empire Russe - Union Soviétique Et États Indépendants Cahiers du monde russe Russie - Empire russe - Union soviétique et États indépendants 57/4 | 2016 Varia Édition électronique URL : http://journals.openedition.org/monderusse/9982 DOI : 10.4000/monderusse.9982 ISSN : 1777-5388 Éditeur Éditions de l’EHESS Édition imprimée Date de publication : 1 octobre 2016 ISBN : 978-2-7132-2542-0 ISSN : 1252-6576 Référence électronique Cahiers du monde russe, 57/4 | 2016 [En ligne], mis en ligne le 01 octobre 2018, Consulté le 23 septembre 2020. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/monderusse/9982 ; DOI : https://doi.org/ 10.4000/monderusse.9982 © École des hautes études en sciences sociales Revue publiée avec le concours du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Cahiers du MONDE RUSSE Russie Empire russe Union soviétique États indépendants 57/4, Octobre‑décembre 2016 É DITIONS DE L ’É COLE DES H AUTES É TUDES EN S CIENCES S OCIALES Cahiers du MONDE RUSSE Revue trimestrielle publiée par le Centre d’études des mondes russe, caucasien et centre-européen et par le Centre d’histoire du domaine turc de l’EHESS directeur de la publication : Pierre-Cyrille Hautcœur Conseil scientifique international Michel AUCOUTURIER (Paris IV), Alain BESANÇON (Ehess), Paul BUSHKOVITCH (Yale), Marco BUTTINO (Turin), Sarah DAVIES (Durham, GB), Peter HOLQUIST (Penn, USA), Oleg HLEVNJIUK (Moscou), Jean-Claude LANNE (Lyon III), Chantal LEMERCIER-QUELQUEJAY (Ehess), Terry MARTIN (Harvard), Alberto MASOERO (Venise), Georges NIVAT (Genève), Stefan PLAGGENBORG (Bochum), David SHEARER (Newark), Richard WORTMAN (Columbia), Andrej ZORIN (Oxford) Comité de rédaction Marc AYMES (Cetobac, Cnrs), Wladimir BERELOWITCH (Genève), Alain BLUM (Ined, Paris), Juliette CADIOT (Cercec, Ehess), Sandra DAHLKE (DHI, Moscou), Catherine DEPRETTO (Paris IV), Marc ELIE (Cercec, Cnrs), Catherine GOUSSEFF (Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin), Andrea GRAZIOSI (Naples), Anna JOUKOVSKAIA (Cercec, Cnrs), Aleksandr LAVROV (Paris VIII), Alexander MARTIN (Notre Dame, IN), Isabelle OHAYON (Cercec, Cnrs), Jutta SCHERRER (Crh, Ehess), Alessandro STANZIANI (Crh, Cnrs), Michel TISSIER (Rennes 2), Nicolas WERTH (Ihtp, Cnrs) Correpondants étrangers Jane BURBANK (New York University), Dmitrij REDIN (Université fédérale de l’Oural) Secrétariat scientifique Anna JOUKOVSKAIA, Marc ELIE, Isabelle OHAYON, Michel TISSIER Rédaction Valérie MÉLIKIAN Comptes rendus Anna JOUKOVSKAIA e-mail : [email protected] Cahiers du Monde russe EHESS 190-198, avenue de France, F-75013 Paris Tél. 33 (0) 1 49 54 25 96 e-mail [email protected] http://monderusse.revues.org – http://www.persee.fr/web/revues http://www.cairn.info/revue-cahiers-du-monde-russe-htm Maquette Michel ROHMER Couverture : Projet d’édit, adopté le 22 mars 1791, Genève (https://doc.rero.ch/record/11888) ; « Le départ de Mademoiselle Pastrano (sic) » (détail), Moscou, 1858, avec l’aimable autorisation du Fonds du Grand Cirque de Saint-Pétersbourg, « Musée des arts du cirque » ; Nikolaj S. Mordvinov (1754-1845), Russkie Portrety XVIII i XIX stal´´tij, t. 1, SPb. : Manufacture des papiers de l’État, 1905 ; V.M. Gessen, Osnovy konstitucionnago prava, Petrograd : Izdanie Juridi©eskago kniÂnago sklada « Pravo », 1917 ; Le barrage de Nurek, Tadjikistan (N.G. Savčenkov, ed., Nurekskaja GES: Očerki, rasskazy, stihi sovremennikov o stroiteljah Nurekskoj GES [L’usine hydroélectrique (GES) de Nurek : Essais, récits, vers de contemporains sur ses bâtisseurs], M. : Tipografija moment, 2013, 520) ; « Explosion nucléaire, polygone de Semipalatinsk, août 1956 », Ural´skij istori©eskij vestnik, 3 (20), 2008 ; « Bataille de KluÒino » (détail), par Szymon Boguszowicz, circa 1620, Galerie d’art de Lviv. © École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 2017 ISSN 1252-6576 ISBN : 978-2-7132-2542-0 Composition : JOUVE - 1, rue du Docteur-Sauvé - 53101 Mayenne Imprimé en France par CHIRAT Imprimeur, 42540 Saint-Just-la-Pendue - N° Dépôt légal : mars 2017 Cahiers du MONDE RUSSE 57/4, Octobre-décembre 2016 Articles Andreas SCHÖNLE Aristocratic subjectivity in revolutionary turmoil : I.I. Bariatinskii’s “Coup d’œil sur Genève” (1791) 711 Dmitrii V. TIMOFEEV Evropeiskii printsip vybornosti v Rossii pervoi chetverti XIX veka : ideal´nye modeli i praktiki realizatsii [Le principe électif européen dans la Russie du premier quart du XIXe siècle : modèles idéaux et mises en pratique] 743 Annick MORARD Julia Pastrana ou les aventures extraordinaires de « la femme-singe » en Russie : contribution à l’histoire culturelle des spectacles de monstres 765 Anastasiya TUMANOVA The liberal doctrine of civil rights in late Imperial Russia : A history of the struggle for the rule of law 791 Artemy M. KALINOVSKY A most beautiful city for the world’s tallest dam : Internationalism, social welfare, and urban utopia in Nurek 819 Natal´ia V. MEL´NIKOVA Mezhdu « zonoi » i « Bol´shoi zemlei » : kommunikativnoe prostranstvo sovetskogo atomnogo proekta [Entre « la zone » et « la Grande Terre » : l’espace communicatif du projet nucléaire soviétique] 847 Machteld VENKEN Narrating the Time of Troubles in Polish school history textbooks (1918-1989) 879 Comptes rendus Sommaire 903 Russie ancienne et impériale 905 Période soviétique et postsoviétique 931 Édition critique de sources 975 Varia 982 Résumés/Abstracts 997 Livres reçus 1005 Sommaire du volume 57 (2016) 1007 Cahiers du MONDE RUSSE 57/4, October-December 2016 Articles Andreas SCHÖNLE Aristocratic subjectivity in revolutionary turmoil: I.I. Bariatinskii’s “Coup d’œil sur Genève” (1791) 711 Dmitrii V. TIMOFEEV The European elective principle and electoral practice in Russia in the first quarter of the nineteenth century 743 Annick MORARD Julia Pastrana, or the extraordinary adventures of a “monkey woman” in Russia: A contribution to the cultural history of freak shows 765 Anastasiya TUMANOVA The liberal doctrine of civil rights in late Imperial Russia: A history of the struggle for the rule of law 791 Artemy M. KALINOVSKY A most beautiful city for the world’s tallest dam: Internationalism, social welfare, and urban utopia in Nurek 819 Natal´ia V. MEL´NIKOVA Between “the zone” and “Mainland”: The Soviet nuclear project’s communicative space 847 Machteld VENKEN Narrating the Time of Troubles in Polish school history textbooks (1918-1989) 879 Book reviews Contents 903 Old and Imperial Russia 905 The Soviet and Post-Soviet eras 931 Critical editions of sources 975 Varia 982 Résumés/Abstracts 997 Books received 1005 Contents of volume 57 (2016) 1007 ANDREAS SCHÖNLE ARISTOCRATIC SUBJECTIVITY IN REVOLUTIONARY TURMOIL I.I. Bariatinskii’s “Coup d’œil sur Genève” (1791) This essay will revisit a vexed question in Russian historiography, the extent of the immediate influence on Russia’s best minds of revolutionary events in France and elsewhere in the early 1790s.1 Political and diplomatic history aside, the impact of the Revolution on Russia’s intellectual history has been contentious. In Soviet times, the “Great French Revolution” was seen as an antecedent to the Bolshevik revolu‑ tion, which encouraged the “discovery” of elective affinities between Russians and the Revolution.2 In this general context, one way to rehabilitate a writer or thinker in the watchful eyes of ideological gatekeepers was to demonstrate his (or, more rarely, her) support for the French Revolution, or more broadly and vaguely, their revolutionary convictions. Aleksandr Radishchev, of course, was fair game, along with the minor authors he influenced.3 But so was Nikolai Karamzin, whom Iurii 1. Research for this article was made possible by a grant from The Leverhulme Trust (RPG‑357), whose support is gratefully acknowledged. This essay also owes much to the suggestions of several anonymous reviewers, who generously shared their erudition with me. 2. The standard Soviet account of Russia’s response to the French Revolution is M.M. Shtrange, Russkoe obshchestvo i frantsuzskaia revoliutsiia 1789‑1794 gg. [Russian society and the French revolution 1798‑1794] (M.: Izdatel´stvo ANSSSR, 1956). Shtrange refers to the “Russian intel‑ ligentsia’s” unanimous embrace of the Revolution, a social group that didn’t yet exist in Russia (65). See also, in the same vein, K.E. Dzhedzhula, Rossiia i velikaia frantsuzskaia burzhuaznaia revoliutsiia kontsa XVIII veka [Russia and the great French bourgeois revolution of the end of the eighteenth century] (Kiev: Izdatel´stvo Kievskogo universiteta, 1972). 3. See G.A. Gukovsii, Russkaia literatura XVIII veka [Russian literature of the eighteenth century] (1939; M.: Aspekt Press, 1998), 388‑391. Iu.M. Lotman gave a more differentiated account of Radishchev’s views on the Revolution, emphasising his uncompromising defence of individual human rights and his ensuing critique of the Jacobine terror and the Directory. See Iu.M. Lotman, “Politicheskoe myshlenie Radishcheva i Karamzina i opyt frantsuzskoi revoli‑ utsii [The political thought of Radishchev and Karamzin and the experience of the French revo‑ lution],” in Iu.M. Lotman, Karamzin (SPb.: Iskusstvo‑SPB, 1997), 601‑605. Cahiers du Monde russe, 57/4, Octobre‑décembre 2016, p. 711‑742. 712 ANDREAS SCHÖNLE Lotman called, not without evidence, a supporter of the early stages of the Revolu‑ tion and even a secret admirer of Robespierre, a manifestation of his preference for state‑directed utopia.4 More recently, the intellectual influence of the revolutionary upheavals has been played down. Vladislav Rjéoutski and Aleksandr Chudinov boldly contend that in the absence of any comparable revolutionary movements in Russia and the limited impact of the publication of Radishchev’s Journey
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