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V T , C T , T  E ISUAL EXTS EREMONIAL EXTS EXTS OF XPLORATION # Collected Articles Imperial Encounters in Russian History Series editor: Gary Marker (State University of New York, Stony Brook) V T , C T , ISUAL EXTS EREMONIAL EXTS T  E EXTS OF XPLORATION V Collected Articles on the Representation of  Russian Monarchy Richard Wortman Boston 2014 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: A catalog record for this title is available from the Library of Congress. Copyright © 2014 Academic Studies Press All rights reserved ISBN 978-1-61811-347-4 (cloth) ISBN 978-1-61811-358-0 (electronic) Book design by Ivan Grave On the cover: Anointing of Alexander II, by Vasilii Timm (from the Coronation Album of Alexander II), 1865. Published by Academic Studies Press in 2014 28 Montfern Avenue Brighton, MA 02135, USA [email protected] www.academicstudiespress.com To the memory of the Slavic and Baltic Division of  the New York Public Library and the spirit of scholarly calling it inspired among the many generations of its readers. Table of Contents List of Illustrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiv Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi Introduction: Texts of Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii Part I CEREMONY AND CEREMONIAL TEXTS 1. Th e Mythology of Empire: Imperial Russian Coronation Albums (With Edward Kasinec) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2. Ceremony and Empire in the Evolution of Russian Monarchy . . . . . . . 27 3. Signs of Empire: Exotic Peoples at Imperial Russian Coronations . . . . . . 47 4. Publicizing the Imperial Image in 1913 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Part II THE IMPERIAL MYTH IN ARTISTIC TEXTS 5. Alexei Olenin, Fedor Solntsev, and the Development of a Russian National Esthetic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 6. Cultural Metamorphoses of Imperial Myth under Catherine the Great and Nicholas I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 7. Myth and Memory—Imperial Evocations of 1812. Alexander I and the Russian People . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 8. “Glas naroda” : Visual Representations of Russian Monarchy in the Era of Emancipation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 9. Th e “Russian Style” in Church Architecture as Imperial Symbol aft er 1881 . . 208 10. St. Petersburg the Imperial City and Peter Tchaikovsky . . . . . . . . . . . 238 Part III EXPLORATIONS AND EMPIRE 11. Texts of Exploration and Russia’s European Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 12. Russian Noble Offi cers and the Ethos of Exploration . . . . . . . . . . . . 274 (cid:2) VII TABLE OF CONTENTS Part IV INTELLECTUAL HISTORY 13. Koshelev, Samarin, and Cherkasskii and the Fate of Liberal Slavophilism . . . 297 14. Tolstoy and the Perception of Poverty: Tolstoy’s “What Th en Must We Do?” 320 15. Property Rights, Populism, and Russian Political Culture . . . . . . . . . . 333 Part V AFTERTHOUGHTS AND REMEMBRANCES 16. Th ought, Culture, and Power: Refl ections of a Russianist . . . . . . . . . 355 17. Th e Moscow-Tartu School: Review of S. Iu. Nekliudov, ed., Moskovsko-tartuskaia semioticheskaia shkola. Istoriia, vospominaniia, razmyshleniia (Moscow: Shkola “Iazyki russkoi kul’tury”, 1998) . . . . . . . 377 18. Brief Recollection of Vladimir Nabokov . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387 19. Marc Raeff : Memorial Th oughts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389 20. Leopold Haimson: Remembrance on the Occasion of his Memorial Service, March 25, 2011 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397 (cid:2) VIII LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS List of Illustrations Article 1 Figure 1— Empress Anna Ioannovna. Opisanie koronatsii e. v. imp. i samo- derzhitsy vserossiiskoi Anny Ioannovny (Moscow, 1730). Slavic and Baltic Collection, New York Public Library. Figure 2—E mpress Elizaveta Petrovna. Obstoiatel’noe opisanie torzhestvennykh poriadkov blagopoluchnogo vshestviia v tsarstvuiushchii grad Moskvu i  sviashchenneishago koronovaniia imp. Elizavety Petrovny (St. Petersburg, 1744). Slavic and Baltic Collection, New York Public Library. Figure 3— Th e Crowning Ceremony of Empress Elizaveta Petrovna. Obstoia- tel’noe opisanie . . . Slavic and Baltic Collection, New York Public Library. Figure 4—E mpress Catherine  II at  the “Tsar’s Place.” Engraving aft er a drawing by Louis de Veilly, Slavic and Baltic Collection, New York Public Library. Figure 5— Th e Crowning of  Emperor Nicholas I. Henry Graf, Vues des cérémonies les plus intéressantes du  couronnement de  leurs majesties imperials l’empereur Nicholas Ier et  l’impératrice Alexandra à Moscou (Paris, 1928). Library of Congress. Figure 6— Emperor Alexander  II Crowns Empress Maria Aleksandrovna. Opisanie sviashchenneishago koronovaniia . . . imperatora Aleksandra Vtorago i imperatritsy Marii Aleksandrovny vsei Rossii (n.p., 1856). Slavic and Baltic Collection, New York Public Library. Figure 7—Th e Crowning of Emperor Alexander III. Opisanie sviashchennago koronovaniia . . . imperatora Aleksandra Tret’ego i  gosudaryni imperatritsy Marii Fedorovny vsei Rossii (St. Petersburg, 1883). Slavic and Baltic Collection, New York Public Library. (cid:2) IX

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Visual Texts, Ceremonial Texts, Texts of Exploration continues the work begun in Russian Monarchy: Representation and Rule, which analyzed the interplay between the symbolic representations of Russian monarchs and the legal and institutional instruments of their rule. The articles in this volume exa
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