A most interesting part of the film \u201cWindow to Paris\u201d was the loyalty to Russia that Nikolai Nikolayevich and his neighbors maintained.
\nHis neighbor is particularly vehement, despite acknowledging that life in Paris seems much better: \u201cWe held off the Tartar-Mongols for 200 years while they evolved!\u201d \u201cThey got fat at our expense!\u201d Nikolai, originally intending to stay, has a nightmare of becoming destitute if he stays in Paris. In Russia, in the school who insisted that they had no need of an aesthetics teacher, the students demand that he return. It turns out that Nikolai and his music are valued in his native land. He even tries to convince the students at the end to return to Russia, in a rare sort of patriotism. He acknowledges that life in Russia, especially at that time, is difficult for everyone. But it is their country and they should stay and work to make it better. This seems like an unusual, sincere patriotism; none of them try to pretend that life in Russia is easy, or even better than in France. But for some reason, they still love their own troubled country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A most interesting part of the film \u201cWindow to Paris\u201d was the loyalty to Russia that Nikolai Nikolayevich and his neighbors maintained. His neighbor is particularly vehement, despite acknowledging that life in Paris seems much better: \u201cWe held off the Tartar-Mongols for 200 years while they evolved!\u201d \u201cThey got fat at our expense!\u201d Nikolai, originally […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":375,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russian-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-fall-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-fall-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-fall-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-fall-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-fall-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-fall-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-fall-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-fall-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-fall-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}