Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations xi
4. Acknowledgments xvii
5. 1 Seeing into Being: An Introduction 1
6. 2. Dirty Old Books 12
7. 3. Visualizing and Illustrating Early Rus Housing 17
8. 4. The Crosier of St. Stefan of Perm 21
9. 5. Sixteenth-Century Muscovite Cavalrymen 28
10. 6. Blessed Is the Host of the Heavenly Tsar: An Icon from the Dormition Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin 33
11. 7. The Cap of Monomakh 38
12. 8. Church of the Intercession on the Moat / St. Basil’s Cathedral 42
13. 9. Mapping Serfdom: Peasant Dwellings on Seventeenth-Century Litigation Maps 47
14. 10. From Tsar to Emperor. Portraits of Aleksei and Peter I 51
15. 11. The Russian Round Table: Aleksei Zubov’s Depiction of the Marriage of His Royal Highness, Peter the First, Autocrat of All the Russias 57
16. 12 An Icon of Female Authority: The St. Catherine Image of 1721 63
17. 13. Conspicuous Consumption at the Court of Catherine the Great: Count Zakhar Chernyshev’s Snuffbox 67
18. 14 Moving Pictures: The Optics of Serfdom on the Russian Estate 71
19. 15. Neither Nobles nor Peasants: Plain Painting and the Emergence of the Merchant Estate 76
20. 16. Circles on a Square. The Heart of St. Petersburg Culture in the Early Nineteenth Century 81
21. 17. Alexander Ivanov’s Appearance of Christ to the People 86
22. 18 Lubki of Emancipation 90
23. 19 Folk Art and Social Ritual 96
24. 20 Personal and Imperial 100
25. 21 Shop Signs, Monuments, Souvenirs 104
26. 22 The Storming of Kars 109
27. 23 A. O. Karelin and Provincial Bourgeois Photography 113
28. 24 European Fashion in Russia 119
29. 25 The Savior on the Waters Church War Memorial in St. Petersburg 124
30. 26 Workers in Suits 128
31. 27 Visualizing Masculinity 133
32. 28 Pictographs of Power 139
33. 29 Visualizing 1917 142
34. 30 Looking at Tatlin’s Stove 148
35. 31 Soviet Images of Jehovah in the 1920s 152
36. 32 National Types 157
37. 33 Envisioning Empire 162
38. 34 The Visual Economy of Forced Labor 168
39. 35 The Cinematic Pastoral of the 1930s 175
40. 36 Portrait of Lenin 181
41. 37 The Moscow Metro 185
42. 38 The Soviet Spectacle 189
43. 39 Motherland Calling? 196
44. 40 Visual Dialectics 201
45. 41 Soviet Jewish Photographers Confront World War II and the Holocaust 207
46. 42 The Morning of Our Motherland 214
47. 43 The Pioneer Palace in the Lenin Hills 218
48. 44 Mikhail Romm’s Ordinary Fascism 224
49. 45 Solaris and the White, White Screen 230
50. 46 After Malevich–Variations on the Return to the Black Square 233
51. 47 Imagining Soviet Rock 239
52. 48 Keeping the Ancient Piety 243
53. 49 Viktor Vasnetsov’s Bogatyrs 248
54. 50 Landscape and Vision at the White Sea–Baltic Canal 254
55. Chronology of Russian History 259
56. Selected Bibliography 263
57. Contributors 271
58. Illustration Credits 273
59. Index 277