Iskusstvo, Moscow
16. Church at Abramtsevo. Designed by Viktor Vasnetsov, 1881-2. Photograph copyright © William C. Brumfield
17. Gusli player. Reproduced from Chloe Oblensky, The Russian Empire: A Portrait in Photographs (London: Jonathan Cape, 1979)
18. Nikolai Roerich: costumes for the Adolescents in the first production of The Rite of Spring, Paris, 1913 (photo: Lebrecht Collection, London)
19. Stravinsky transcribes a folk song sung by a peasant gusli player on the porch of the Stravinsky house at Ustilug, 1909 (photo: Fondation Theodore Strawinsky/Lebrecht Collection, London)
20. Hermits at a monastery in northern Russia (photo: Popperfoto, Northampton)
21. Group of Komi people in typical clothing. Photograph, c. 1912, by S. I. Sergei. Reproduced from L. N. Molotova, Folk Art of the Russian Federation from the Ethnographical Museum of the Peoples of the U.S.S.R. (Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1981)
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, Russkii naroodnyi ornament, 1872) (photo copyright © British Library, London [ref. 7743])
26. Vladimir Stasov: title page of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera score Sadko, 1897. Photograph copyright © British Library, London [ref. G.1073.a]
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 Magnanimous Cuckold. Tretyakov Gallery Moscow (photo: Bridgeman Art Library, London)
29. Alexander Rodchenko: 'To Her and Me', illustration from Mayakovsky's Pro eto, 1923. Private collection. © DACS 2002
30. 'The Russian house inside the Italian cathedral'. Final shot from Andrei Tarkovsky's Nostalgia, 1983 (photo: Ronald Grant Archive, London)
31. Sergei Efron and Marina Tsvetaeva, 1911. Courtesy Viktoria Schweitzer
1. Nikolai Argunov: Portrait ofPraskovya Sheremeteva, 1802. Copyright © 2002, State Museum of Ceramics and XVIII Century Estate, Kuskovo/Petrushka, Moscow
2. Vasily Tropinin: Portrait of Pushkin, 1827. Pushkin Museum, Moscow (photo: AKG London)
3. Alexei Venetsianov: Morning of the Lady of the Manor, 1823. Copyright © 2002, State Russian Museum, St Petersburg/Petrushka, Moscow
4. Alexei Venetsianov: In the Ploughed Field: Spring, 1827. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (photo: Bridgeman Art Library, London)
5. Vasily Perov: Hunters at Rest, 1871. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (photo: Bridgeman Art Library, London)
6. Interior of the Terem Palace, the Kremlin, Moscow, restored by Fedor Solntsev (photo: Novosti, London)
7. Vasily Surikov: The Boyar's Wife Morozova, 1 884. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (photo: Scala, Florence)
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: Portrait of Vladimir Stasov, 1873. Copyright © 2002, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
11. Ilia Repin: The Volga Barge Haulers, 1873. Copyright © 2002, State Russian Museum, St Petersburg/Petrushka, Moscow
12. Ivan Kramskoi: The Peasant Ignatiy Pirogov, 1874. Copyright © 2002, Kiev Museum of Russian Art, Kiev, Ukraine/Petrushka, Moscow
13. Leon Bakst: Portrait of Diaghilev with His Nanny, 1906. Copyright © 2002, State Russian Museum, St Petersburg/Petrushka, Moscow
COLOUR PLATE SECTION 2 14. Original score by Igor Stravinsky for The Rite of Spring, 1913. Private Collection (photo: Bridgeman Art Library, London). Copyright 1912, 1921 by Hawkes Son (London) Ltd. Reproduced by permission of Boosey Hawkes Music Publishrs Ltd
15. Viktor Vasnetsov: set design for Mamontov's production of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera The Snow Maiden at Abramtsevo, 1881 (photo: Novosti, London)
16. Nikolai Roerich's set and costumes for The Rite of Spring, reproduced by the Joffrey Ballet for its revival of the original ballet in 1987. (Copyright © Herbert Migdoll
17. Nikolai Roerich: The Idols, 1901. Copyright © 2002, State Russian Museum, St Petersburg/Petrushka, Moscow
18. Nikolai Roerich: costume designs for The Snow Maiden, 1921, lor the Chicago Opera Company production, 1922. Courtesy Nicholas Roerich Museum, New York
19. Vasily Kandinsky: Motley Life, 1907. Copyright © Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2002
10. Vasily Kandinsky: All Saints II, 1911. Copyright © Stadtische
Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2002
21. Vasily Kandinsky: Oval No. 2, 1925. Centre Pompidou, Musee National d'Art Moderne, CCI, Paris. (Copyright © Photo CNAC/ MNAM l)isr.RMN)(0 AD AGP, Paris and DACS, London 2002
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: Vladimirka, 1 892. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (photo: Scala, Florence)
24. Vasily Vereshchagin: Surprise Attack, 1871 (photo: Christie's Images, London)
25. Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin: Bathing the Red Horse, 1912. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (photo: Scala, Florence)
26. Kazimir Malevich: Red Cavalry, 1930. State Russian Museum, St Petersburg (photo: Scala, Florence)
27. Natan Altman: Portrait of Anna Akhmatova, 1914. Copyright © 2002, State Russian Museum, St Petersburg/Petrushka, Moscow © DACS 2002
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