Petersburg/Petrushka, Moscow
7. A wet nurse in traditional Russian dress. Early-twentieth-century photograph. Private collection. Reproduced from Chloe Oblensky,
8. Monument to the millennium of Russia in the square in front of St Sophia’s Cathedral, Novgorod. Photograph by Mikhail Mikeshin, early 1910s
9. Maria Volkonsky and her son Misha. Daguerreotype, 1862. Reproduced from Christine Sutherland,
10. Etienne-Maurice Falconet:
11. Viktor Gartman: design tor the Kiev city gate (photo: Novosti/ Bridgeman Art Library, London)
12. Vladimir Shervud: Russian Museum, Red Square, Moscow. Photograph, early 1900s (photo: Alexander Meledin Collection/Mary Evans Picture Library, London)
13. Ilia Repin: sketches for
14. Tolstoy’s estate at Yasnaya Polyana. Late-nineteenth-century photograph
15. Elena Polenova: ‘Cat and Owl’ carved door, Abramtsevo workshop, early 1890s. Courtesy Izobrazitel’noe Iskusstvo, Moscow
16. Church at Abramtsevo. Designed by Viktor Vasnetsov, 1881-2. Photograph copyright © William C. Brumfield
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18. Nikolai Roerich: costumes for the Adolescents in the first production of
19. Stravinsky transcribes a folk song sung by a peasant
20. Hermits at a monastery in northern Russia (photo: Popperfoto, Northampton)
21. Group of Komi people in typical clothing. Photograph,
22. Vasily Kandinsky: sketches of buildings in the Komi region. From the Vologda Diary, 1889. Centre Pompidou, Musee National d’Art Moderne, Paris. (Copyright © Photo CNAC/MNAM Dist. RMN) © AD AGP, Paris and DACS, London 2002
23. Masked Buriat shaman with drum, drumstick and horse-sticks. Photograph by Toumanoff, early 1900s
24. Watercolour copy of a lost self-portrait with Circassian sword and cloak by Mikhail Lermontov, 1837 (photo: Novosti, London)
25. Vladimir Stasov: study of the Russian letter ‘B’ from a fourteenth-century manuscript of Novgorod. Reproduced in Stasov,
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27. Akhmatova and Punin in the courtyard of the Fountain House, 1927. Copyright © Museum of Anna Akhmatova in the Fountain House, St Petersburg
28. Liubov Popova: stage design for Meyerhold’s 1922 production of the
29. Alexander Rodchenko: ‘To Her and Me’, illustration from Mayakovsky’s
30. ‘The Russian house inside the Italian cathedral’. Final shot from Andrei Tarkovsky’s
31. Sergei Efron and Marina Tsvetaeva, 1911. Courtesy Viktoria Schweitzer
COLOUR PLATE SECTION 1
1. Nikolai Argunov:
2. Vasily Tropinin:
3. Alexei Venetsianov:
4. Alexei Venetsianov:
5. Vasily Perov:
6. Interior of the Terem Palace, the Kremlin, Moscow, restored by Fedor Solntsev (photo: Novosti, London)
7. Vasily Surikov:
8. Imperial Presentation Kovsh by Mikhail Perkin for Faberge, 1906. Copyright © Phototheque de la Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris
9. Siren vase by Sergei Vashkov for Faberge, 1908. Copyright © 2002, State Historical Museum, Moscow/Petrushka, Moscow
10. Ilia Repin:
11. Ilia Repin:
12. Ivan Kramskoi:
13. Leon Bakst:
COLOUR PLATE SECTION 2
14. Original score by Igor Stravinsky for
15. Viktor Vasnetsov: set design for Mamontov’s production of Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera
16. Nikolai Roerich’s set and costumes for
17. Nikolai Roerich:
18. Nikolai Roerich: costume designs for
19. Vasily Kandinsky:
10. Vasily Kandinsky:
Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2002
21. Vasily Kandinsky:
22. Shaman bird head dress, cedar wood, first half of nineteenth century. From the collection of Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg
23. Isaak Levitan:
24. Vasily Vereshchagin:
25. Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin:
26. Kazimir Malevich:
27. Natan Altman:
Notes on the Maps and Text
MAPS
Place names indicated in the maps are those used in Russia before 1917. Soviet names are given in the text where appropriate. Since 1991, most Russian cities have reverted to their pre-revolutionary names.
RUSSIAN
