Daily household of Kazan Philistines in the first half of the XIX century

Abstract

© Serials Publications. The article is devoted to the study of everyday household of Kazan philistines as a typical urban segment of the population in the context of bourgeois modernization. The study examined philistine household as the center of daily life practices, defining forms of existence of townspeople of studied period. Approaches to the study of this issue are based on methods used in micro-history and historical anthropology. Analysis of sources, most of which were first introduced into scientific circulation, made it possible to reconstruct the structure of household, the appearance and quality of houses, the zoning of internal spaces, features of consumer culture, the elements of public and private parts of philistine life. The study of philistine home ownership as an everyday structure showed that house carries meanings that reflect the perception of the world, which is characteristic for the traditional pre-industrial societies. At the same time there are new trends, gradually approaching philistine house to the house of citizen of the industrial age.