Picturing Russia: explorations in visual culture

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

1. Seeing into Being: An Introduction / Valerie A. Kivelson / Joan Neuberger

2. Dirty Old Books / Simon Franklin

3. Visualizing and Illustrating Early Rus Housing / David M. Goldfrank

4. The Crosier of St. Stefan of Perm / A. V. Chernetsov

5. Sixteenth-Century Muscovite Cavalrymen / Donald Ostrowski

6. Blessed Is the Host of the Heavenly Tsar: An Icon from the Dormition Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin / Daniel Rowland

7. The Cap of Monomakh / Nancy Shields Kollmann

8. Church of the Intercession on the Moat / St. Basil's Cathedral / Michael S. Flier

9. Mapping Serfdom: Peasant Dwellings on Seventeenth-Century Litigation Maps / Valerie A. Kivelson

10. From Tsar to Emperor: Portraits of Aleksei and Peter I / Lindsey Hughes

11. The Russian Round Table: Aleksei Zubov's Depiction of the Marriage of His Royal Highness, Peter the First, Autocrat of All the Russias / Ernest A. Zitser

12. An Icon of Female Authority: The St. Catherine Image of 1721 / Gary Marker

13. Conspicuous Consumption at the Court of Catherine the Great: Count Zakhar Chernyshev's Snuffbox / Douglas Smith

14. Moving Pictures: The Optics of Serfdom on the Russian Estate / Thomas Newlin

15. Neither Nobles nor Peasants: Plain Painting and the Emergence of the Merchant Estate / David L. Ransel

16. Circles on a Square: The Heart of St. Petersburg Culture in the Early Nineteenth Century / Richard Stites

17. Alexander Ivanov's Appearance of Christ to the People / Laura Engelstein

18. Lubki of Emancipation / Richard Wortman

19. Folk Art and Social Ritual / Alison Hilton

20. Personal and Imperial: Fyodor Vasiliev's In the Crimean Mountains / Christopher Ely

21. Shop Signs, Monuments, Souvenirs: Views of the Empire in Everyday Life / Willard Sunderland

22. The Storming of Kars / Stephen M. Norris

23. A. O. Karelin and Provincial Bourgeois Photography / Catherine Evtuhov

24. European Fashion in Russia / Christine Ruane

25. The Savior on the Waters Church War Memorial in St. Petersburg / Nadieszda Kizenko

26. Workers in Suits: Performing the Self / Mark D. Steinberg

27. Visualizing Masculinity: The Male Sex That Was Not One in Fin-de-Siècle Russia / Louise McReynolds

28. Pictographs of Power: The 500-Ruble Note of 1912 / James Cracraft

29. Visualizing 1917 / William G. Rosenberg

30. Looking at Tatlin's Stove / Christina Kiaer

31. Soviet Images of Jehovah in the 1920s / Robert Weinberg

32. National Types / Francine Hirsch

33. Envisioning Empire: Veils and Visual Revolution in Soviet Central Asia / Douglas Northrop

34. The Visual Economy of Forced Labor: Alexander Rodchenko and the White Sea-Baltic Canal / Erika Wolf

35. The Cinematic Pastoral of the 1930s / Emma Widdis

36. Portrait of Lenin: Carpets and National Culture in Soviet Turkmenistan / Adrienne Edgar

37. The Moscow Metro / Mike O'Mahony

38. The Soviet Spectacle: The All-Union Agricultural Exhibitions / Evgeny Dobrenko

39. Motherland Calling? National Symbols and the Mobilization for War / Karen Petrone

40. Visual Dialectics: Murderous Laughter in Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible / Joan Neuberger

41. Soviet Jewish Photographers Confront World War II and the Holocaust / David Shneer

42. The Morning of Our Motherland: Fyodor Shurpin's Portrait of Stalin / Mark Bassin

43. The Pioneer Palace in the Lenin Hills / Susan E. Reid

44. Mikhail Romm's Ordinary Fascism / Josephine Woll

45. Solaris and the White, White Screen / Lilya Kaganovsky

46. After Malevich—Variations on the Return to the Black Square / Jane A. Sharp

47. Imagining Soviet Rock: Akvarium's Triangle / Polly McMichael

48. Keeping the Ancient Piety: Old Believers and Contemporary Society / Roy R. Robson / Elena B. Smilianskaia

49. Viktor Vasnetsov's Bogatyrs: Mythic Heroes and Sacrosanct Borders Go to Market / Helena Goscilo

50. Landscape and Vision at the White Sea-Baltic Canal / Michael Kunichika

Chronology of Russian History

Selected Bibliography

List of Contributors

Illustration Credits

Index