Lecture: How Women Must Write: The “Forced Marriage” Scandal with Professor Olga Peters Hasty

Princeton University Professor, Olga Peters Hasty discusses the scandal that erupted in 1846 when Countess Evdokiia Rostopchina’s poem, “A Forced Marriage,” appeared in the arch-conservative St. Petersburg paper The Northern Bee. The poem’s veiled political message had eluded strict government censors. When it came to light Tsar Nicholas I banished the Countess from his court.

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