Kivelson, Valerie A.

Images and the Making of the Russian Empire, 1471-1721. - 1st ed. - London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2025. ©2025. - 1 online resource (321 pages)

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Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration and Spelling -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Agency of Images and the Muscovite Imperial Pictosphere -- 1 Imagining Empire: Making Muscovy Imperial -- 2 Explosion of Images: The Litsevoi letopisnyi svod ( Illustrated Chronicle Compilation ) -- 3 Picturing a Place in the World: Between Europe and the Steppe -- 4 Visual Ethnography: Imagining Diversity in the Sixteenth Century -- 5 Seventeenth-Century Changes: Racial Imaginary and the Configuration of Empire -- 6 Looking Across the Battle Lines: Visual Empathy/Visual Violence -- 7 Pictures from the Arctic: The Colonized Draw Back -- 8 Ukrainian Baroque and the Displacement of Muscovite Visual Culture -- 9 Empire Redrawn: Visual Constructions and Disruptions -- Conclusion: A New Scopic Regime -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

A visual history of Russia's Muscovite tsardom that reveals how, in imperial settings, images functioned as active agents for and against empire.

9781350516519


1471-1721


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Imperium
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Russland


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