THE NINETEENTH CENTURY EUROPEANS SALON DANCE IN “TRANSLATIONS” INTO RUSSIAN
The article deals with the wide dissemination in Russia of the XIX century of textbooks, manuals, recommendations for teaching the basics of ballroom etiquette and ballroom dance itself, which was at that time an integral and mandatory part of the life of secular society. Textbooks were imported from European countries, were written in foreign languages, most often in French, and were translated into Russian for ease of use. Russian russians eventually began to compile original textbooks on “dancing”, written in Russian, which in turn were translated into foreign languages, and, getting to Europe, contributed to the penetration of the Russian culture of salon dance into world culture. The most famous authors were Klemm B., Lindrot N., Rayevsky F.V., Zorn A.Ya, Chistyakov A.D. and others. In the middle of the XIX century. there was a whole system of teaching ballroom dancing. They studied in public and private higher and secondary educational institutions of Russia, military educational institutions and foreign boarding schools, where "dancing" was a mandatory lesson included in the curriculum. Textbooks and manuals were a serious help in the work of ballroom dance teachers.