Izvestiya of Saratov University.
ISSN 1819-4907 (Print)
ISSN 2542-1913 (Online)


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Cultural Innovation among Saratov Province Merchants in late XVIII - first half of the XIX century

Late XVIII and early XIX centuries saw the attraction to cultural innovations among Russian merchants manifested in the fact that wealthy merchants sought to join the westernized culture of the nobility. Of all the cities of Saratov province of that period only Volsk merchants could acquire some aspects of aristocratic culture due to their wealth.