Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vi
3. Illustrations viii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Note on Transliteration xiii
6. INTRODUCTION. At Every Time and In Every Place. The Mother of God in Modern Russian Culture 1
7. 1. More Numerous Than the Stars in Heaven. An Early Eighteenth-Century Multimedia Compendium of Mariology 37
8. 2. The Akhtyrka Icon of the Mother of God. A Glimpse of Eighteenth-Century Orthodox Piety on a Southwestern Frontier 58
9. 3. Pushkin Framing Mary. Blasphemy, Beauty, and National Identity 82
10. 4. The Mother of God and the Lives of Orthodox Female Religious in Late Imperial Russia 98
11. 5. The Woman at the Window. Gorky’s Revolutionary Madonna 122
12. 6 Marina Tsvetaeva’s Images of the Mother of God in the Context of Russian Cultural Developments in the 1910s–1920s 144
13. 7 Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin’s 1918 in Petrograd (The Petrograd Madonna) and the Meaning of Mary in 1920 163
14. 8 Our Mother of Paris The “Creative Renewal” of Orthodox Mariology in the Russian Emigration, 1920s–1930s 187
15. 9 The Madonna Painter. Pimen Maksimovich Sofronov and Marian Iconography (1898–1973) 209
16. 10 The Marian Ideal in the Works of Tatiana Goricheva and the Mariia Journals 227
17. 11 Following in Mary’s Footsteps Marian Apparitions and Pilgrimage in Contemporary Russia 246
18. 12 On the Field of Battle The Marian Face of Post-Soviet Russia 270
19. Afterword 313
20. glossary 317
21. Contributors 333
22. Index 335