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CREECA Lecture Series

"Blending Bessarabia: Winemaking in Late-Tsarist Russia and the Ambivalence of Modernity," Stephen Bittner, Sonoma State University

Event Details

Date
Thursday, May 1, 2014
Time
4 p.m.
Location
Description
In the world of late-tsarist winemaking, no controversy was more acrimonious and revealing than that which pitted Prince Lev Golitsyn, owner of Crimea’s celebrated Novyi Svet winery, against the Bessarabian scientist and wine writer Vasilii Tairov. Playing out in the pages of wine journals and from the podia of nationwide viticultural congreses, their debate opened unusual schisms in late-tsarist Russia between notions of European and modern, science and status, progress and refinement.
Cost
Free

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