Visual Texts, Ceremonial Texts, Texts of Exploration: Collected Articles on the Representation of Russian Monarchy

469 Pages·2014·24.8 MB·English

by  Richard Wortman

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Collected Articles
Imperial Encounters in Russian History
Series editor:
Gary Marker
(State University of New York, Stony Brook)
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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.
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On the cover: Anointing of Alexander II, by Vasilii Timm
(from the Coronation Album of Alexander II), 1865.
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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
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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
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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.
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