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Samouchitel Tantsev (Self-Instructor in Dancing)
Self-Instructor in Dancing
also: Самоучитель танцев
A cheap how-to dance manual, of a popular genre in the period; the lodger Kuporosov is caught reading it despite his reputation as the household's most learned man.
Reading notes
- A Classicist's Misfortune §17 *Self-Instructor in Dancing*
A popular genre of cheap how-to manual in the period; Kuporosov's reading it, rather than anything scholarly, undercuts his reputation as "the cleverest lodger."