Images and the making of the Russian Empire, 1471-1721 / Valerie A. Kivelson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kivelson, Valerie A. (Valerie Ann), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russia--History.

Russia.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Summary:

"Exploring the visual record of the Muscovite tsardom, this book demonstrates that, in imperial settings, images actually do things. Richly illustrated with 120 arresting, little-known images, it considers how those images functioned as active agents for and against empire. Images and the Making of the Russian Empiremoves out from the throne room of the Kremlin to engravers’ workshops of Chernihiv and Kyiv, to the Amur River basin, to the icy peaks of Kamchatka, wherever imagery and empire intersected – which was everywhere.The book presents an unexpected array of pictorial material, including Muscovite illuminated histories, Ukrainian political-theological prints, and Siberian reindeer herders’ pictographic signature marks. Valerie A. Kivelson demonstrates how pictures created by conquerors and conquered, by elites and subjects, by the powerful and the disempowered, advanced and shaped the tsardom as it grew into an ethnically and religiously diverse empire, in ways that have remained unnoticed until now. Through its novel visual methodology, it offers original perspectives on both Moscow’s ambitions and the ways in which populations coming under tsarist control pushed back and reshaped the regime’s own understanding of what it meant to be an imperial state"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : The agency of images and the Muscovite imperial pictosphere

Imagining empire : Making Muscovy imperial

Explosion of images : The Litsevoi letopisnyi svod (Illustrated Chronicle Compilation)

Picturing a place in the world : Between Europe and the Steppe

Visual ethnography : Imagining diversity in the sixteenth century

Seventeenth-century changes : Racial imaginary and the configuration of empire

Looking across the battle lines : Visual empathy/visual violence

Pictures from the Arctic : The colonized draw back

Ukrainian Baroque and the displacement of Muscovite visual culture

Empire redrawn : Visual constructions and disruptions

Conclusion : A new scopic regime.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Kivelson, Valerie A. (Valerie Ann) Images and the making of the Russian Empire, 1471-1721

ISBN:

9781350516526

135051652X

9781350516519

1350516511

9781350516502

1350516503

OCLC:

1520507037

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license