Zhizn' usadebnogo mifa. Utrachennyy i obretennyy ray

Kniga "Zhizn' usadebnogo mifa. Utrachennyy i obretennyy ray" est' razmyshlenie istorika literatury i teatroveda o tom, kakuyu rol' sam fakt suschestvovaniya usad'by sygral v russkoy kul'ture, literature, teatre. Vmeste s tem, v monografii predprinyata popytka proanalizirovat' i obratnyy process: kak literatura, teatr, filosofiya formirovali usadebnyy byt, real'noe usadebnoe prostranstvo i sam sposob prozhivaniya v usad'be. Parallel'no osveschayutsya otdel'nye tochki peresecheniya russkogo "usadebnogo teksta" s zhizn'yu evropeyskoy usad'by. V prilozhenii k knige publikuyutsya stihotvornye nadpisi T.Troepol'skogo, sozdannye im dlya parka kn. A.B.Kurakina v Nadezhdino, putevoditel' Lyudovika XIV po Versalyu, a takzhe materialy k istorii russkogo usadebnogo teatra.