Waiting for the "thunderstorm": Images of the coming war with Napoleon in the public consciousness of the population of the provinces of the European North of Russia. Historical-documentary and cultural-anthropological research

Abstract

Despite the textbook nature of the global historical event of the early XIX century, some aspects of its preparation, implementation and completion seem unreasonably historiographically forgotten and consciously muted from the point of view of sources and archeography. With the advent in historical science of traditions of understanding everyday history of this period and event time, consideration through the usual documentary sources of such areas as public sentiment, self-consciousness, new areas of historical knowledge have appeared. These include the cultural and anthropological reading of the Napoleonic era. In the paper, the author operates with such concepts as: Russian provincial society, premonitions of war, public consciousness, rumors, signs and their interpretations.