Picturing Russian Empire - Paperback

by Valerie Kivelson (Author), Sergei Kozlov (Author), Joan Neuberger (Author)

Picturing Russian Empire offers an overview of the history of Russia from the tenth century to the present through the connections between empire and visuality. Using thought provoking images, Picturing Russian Empire presents readers with a visual tour of the lands and peoples that constituted the Russian Empire and those that confronted it, defied it, accommodated to it, and shaped it at various times in more than a millennium of history.

Bringing together scholars and experts from across the world and from various disciplines, Picturing Russian Empire consistently raises big historical questions to stimulate readers to think about images as embedded in the diverse, lived worlds of the Russian empire. The authors challenge the reader to not only to see images as the creations of individuals, but as objects circulating among viewers in a variety of contexts, creating new impressions, meanings, and experiences.

Author Biography

Valerie Kivelson is the Thomas N. Tentler Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. Author of several books on medieval Russia, including Desperate Magic: The Moral Economy of Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Russia (Cornell University Press, 2013) and Cartographies of Tsardom: The Land and Its Meanings in Seventeenth-Century Russia (Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2006).

Sergei Kozlov is Professor and Chair of the Department of History at the University of Tyumen (Russia).

Joan Neuberger is Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. Author of several books on modern Russian history, including This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia (Cornell University Press, 2019).