Table of Contents
List of Illustrations xi
Acknowledgments xvii
1 Seeing into Being: An Introduction Valerie A. Kivelson Joan Neuberger 1
2 Dirty Old Books Simon Franklin 12
3 Visualizing and Illustrating Early Rus Housing David M. Goldfrank 17
4 The Crosier of St. Stefan of Perm A. V. Chernetsov 21
5 Sixteenth-Century Muscovite Cavalrymen Donald Ostrowski 28
6 Blessed Is the Host of the Heavenly Tsar: An Icon from the Dormition Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin Daniel Rowland 33
7 The Cap of Monomakh Nancy Shields Kollmann 38
8 Church of the Intercession on the Moat / St. Basil's Cathedral Michael S. Flier 42
9 Mapping Serfdom: Peasant Dwellings on Seventeenth-Century Litigation Maps Valerie A. Kivelson 47
10 From Tsar to Emperor: Portraits of Aleksei and Peter I Lindsey Hughes 51
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 57
12 An Icon of Female Authority: The St. Catherine Image of 1721 Gary Marker 63
13 Conspicuous Consumption at the Court of Catherine the Great: Count Zakhar Chernyshev's Snuffbox Douglas Smith 67
14 Moving Pictures: The Optics of Serfdom on the Russian Estate Thomas Newlin 71
15 Neither Nobles nor Peasants: Plain Painting and the Emergence of the Merchant Estate David L. Ransel 76
16 Circles on a Square: The Heart of St. Petersburg Culture in the Early Nineteenth Century Richard Stites 81
17 Alexander Ivanov's Appearance of Christ to the People Laura Engelstein 86
18 Lubki of Emancipation Richard Wortman 90
19 Folk Art and Social Ritual Alison Hilton 96
20 Personal and Imperial: Fyodor Vasiliev's In the Crimean Mountains Christopher Ely 100
21 Shop Signs, Monuments, Souvenirs: Views of the Empire in Everyday Life Willard Sunderland 104
22 The Storming of Kars Stephen M. Norris 109
23 A. O. Karelin and Provincial Bourgeois Photography Catherine Evtuhov 113
24 European Fashion in Russia Christine Ruane 119
25 The Savior on the Waters Church War Memorial in St. Petersburg Nadieszda Kizenko 124
26 Workers in Suits: Performing the Self Mark D. Steinberg 128
27 Visualizing Masculinity: The Male Sex That Was Not One in Fin-de-Siècle Russia Louise McReynolds 133
28 Pictographs of Power: The 500-Ruble Note of 1912 James Cracraft 139
29 Visualizing 1917 William G. Rosenberg 142
30 Looking at Tatlin's Stove Christina Kiaer 148
31 Soviet Images of Jehovah in the 1920s Robert Weinberg 152
32 National Types Francine Hirsch 157
33 Envisioning Empire: Veils and Visual Revolution in Soviet Central Asia Douglas Northrop 162
34 The Visual Economy of Forced Labor: Alexander Rodchenko and the White Sea-Baltic Canal Erika Wolf 168
35 The Cinematic Pastoral of the 1930s Emma Widdis 175
36 Portrait of Lenin: Carpets and National Culture in Soviet Turkmenistan Adrienne Edgar 181
37 The Moscow Metro Mike O'Mahony 185
38 The Soviet Spectacle: The All-Union Agricultural Exhibitions Evgeny Dobrenko 189
39 Motherland Calling? National Symbols and the Mobilization for War Karen Petrone 196
40 Visual Dialectics: Murderous Laughter in Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible Joan Neuberger 201
41 Soviet Jewish Photographers Confront World War II and the Holocaust David Shneer 207
42 The Morning of Our Motherland: Fyodor Shurpin's Portrait of Stalin Mark Bassin 214
43 The Pioneer Palace in the Lenin Hills Susan E. Reid 218
44 Mikhail Romm's Ordinary Fascism Josephine Woll 224
45 Solaris and the White, White Screen Lilya Kaganovsky 230
46 After Malevich—Variations on the Return to the Black Square Jane A. Sharp 233
47 Imagining Soviet Rock: Akvarium's Triangle Polly McMichael 239
48 Keeping the Ancient Piety: Old Believers and Contemporary Society Roy R. Robson Elena B. Smilianskaia 243
49 Viktor Vasnetsov's Bogatyrs: Mythic Heroes and Sacrosanct Borders Go to Market Helena Goscilo 248
50 Landscape and Vision at the White Sea-Baltic Canal Michael Kunichika 254
Chronology of Russian History 259
Selected Bibliography 263
List of Contributors 271
Illustration Credits 273
Index 277
