Images and the Making of the Russian Empire, 1471-1721
Images and the Making of the Russian Empire, 1471-1721
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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 Empire moves 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.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Imagining Empire: Making Muscovy Imperial
2. Explosion of Images: The Litsevoi letopisnyi svod (Illustrated Historical Chronicle)
3. Picturing a Place in the World: Between Europe and the Steppe
4. Visual Demographics: Imagining Human 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. Empire Redrawn: Belarusian-Ukrainian Baroque and the Displacement of Muscovite Visual Culture
Conclusion: A New Scopic Regime
Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | 18 Sep 2025 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 320 |
| ISBN | 9781350516519 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 120 colour illus |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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