Portraits Of Old Russia
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Portraits Of Old Russia
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Author : Donald Ostrowski
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-07-17
Portraits Of Old Russia written by Donald Ostrowski and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-17 with Social Science categories.
This book introduces readers to a little-known place and time in world history – early modern Russia, from its beginnings as Muscovy, in the fourteenth century, through the reign of Peter I (1689-1725) – by portraying the lives of representative individuals from the major levels of the society of that era. The portraits, written by professional historians, are imaginative reconstructions or composites of individual lives, rather than biographies. The portraits are arranged into socio-political categories, and include members of ruling families, government servitors, clerks, military personnel, church prelates, monks, provincial landowners, townspeople and artisans, Siberian explorers and traders, free peasants, serfs, slaves and holy fools. Using these portraits, the book brings old Russian society to life in an interesting way.
Portraits Of Old Russia
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Author : Donald G. Ostrowski
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2011
Portraits Of Old Russia written by Donald G. Ostrowski and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Imaginary biography categories.
First Published in 2015. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
The Russian Century
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Author : Brian Moynahan
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 1994
The Russian Century written by Brian Moynahan and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Russia categories.
Over 300 photographs of Russia from 1894 to 1994, most of them previously unpublished, and very few seen before in the West, have been culled from dozens of archives, museums, private collections and previously closed files. Together they provide a portrait of Russia from the Tsarists to Chernobyl, from a costume ball in old St Petersburg to a stripper at a modern Moscow nightclub, from the Revolution to the Great Terror, from the Cold War to the grim state of contemporary Russia, and from haunting landscapes to portraits of Yuri Gagarin, Pasternak, Solzhenitzyn and Shostakovich.
Russia
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Author : Lev Poliakov
language : en
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Release Date : 1991
Russia written by Lev Poliakov and has been published by Farrar Straus & Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with History categories.
72 black and white photographs of Russia and Russian people.
Picturing Russia
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Author : Valerie Ann Kivelson
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2008-01-01
Picturing Russia written by Valerie Ann Kivelson and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-01 with History categories.
What can Russian images and objects—a tsar’s crown, a provincial watercolor album, the Soviet Pioneer Palace—tell us about the Russian people and their culture? This wide-ranging book is the first to explore the visual culture of Russia over the entire span of Russian history, from ancient Kiev to contemporary, post-Soviet society. Illustrated with more than one hundred diverse and fascinating images, the book examines the ways that Russians have represented themselves visually, understood their visual environment, and used visual images in social and political contexts. Expert contributors discuss images and objects from all over the Russian/Soviet empire, including consumer goods, architectural monuments, religious icons, portraits, news and art photography, popular prints, films, folk art, and more. Each of the concise and accessible essays in the volume offers a fresh interpretation of Russian cultural history. Putting visuality itself in focus as never before, Picturing Russia adds an entirely new dimension to the study of Russian literature, history, art, and culture. The book enriches our understanding of visual documents and shows the variety of ways they serve as far more than mere illustration.
Literary Portraits
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Author : Maxim Gorky
language : en
Publisher: The Minerva Group, Inc.
Release Date : 2001-09
Literary Portraits written by Maxim Gorky and has been published by The Minerva Group, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
This collection of literary portraits forms a gallery of life-like representations of some remarkable Russian authors. Here we have Tolstoi -- "superhumanly wise," Chekhov -- "sagely modest," Korolenko -- "calm and of an extraordinary simplicity," Kotsubinsky -- "at home in the ideal world of beauty and good," Garin-Mikhailovsky -- "gifted, inexhaustibly cheerful," Prishvin, who wrote about "The Earth, our Great Mother."
Photographs By A Russian Writer
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Author : Leonid Nikolaević Andreev
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Photographs By A Russian Writer written by Leonid Nikolaević Andreev and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with categories.
Russian Portraits
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Author : Eugene-Melchior Vogue (Vicomte De)
language : en
Publisher: Franklin Classics Trade Press
Release Date : 2018-11-13
Russian Portraits written by Eugene-Melchior Vogue (Vicomte De) and has been published by Franklin Classics Trade Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-13 with History categories.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Russian Century
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Release Date : 2000
The Russian Century written by and has been published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Russia categories.
The Russian Century brings to life a hundred years of Russian history. It takes us from a costume ball in old St Petersburg to the 1917 revolution; from Stalin's atrocities to the Cold War; from glasnost to the Second Revolution in 1993, and to the chaotic state of contemporary Russia. Surprising and intimate portraits of artists, writers and politicians - Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn and Shostakovitch, Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky - are set alongside the faces of unknown peasants, workers and soliders; the dramatic moments of history in the making alongside the details of ordinary life.
Kiev
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Author : Michael F. Hamm
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2014-04-03
Kiev written by Michael F. Hamm and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-03 with History categories.
In a fascinating "urban biography," Michael Hamm tells the story of one of Europe's most diverse cities and its distinctive mix of Ukrainian, Polish, Russian, and Jewish inhabitants. A splendid urban center in medieval times, Kiev became a major metropolis in late Imperial Russia, and is now the capital of independent Ukraine. After a concise account of Kiev's early history, Hamm focuses on the city's dramatic growth in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The first historian to analyze how each of Kiev's ethnic groups contributed to the vitality of the city's culture, he also examines the violent conflicts that developed among them. In vivid detail, he shows why Kiev came to be known for its "abundance of revolutionaries" and its anti-Semitic violence.