Class no. 2: Historical Understanding, Visual Sources, and Imperial Images
From The Romanov Family Album (photographs of the empress and her daughters):
1. The charity bazaar: Prepared room.
2. The charity bazaar: Empress Alexandra selling wares.
3. The charity bazaar: Crowded room.
4. Empress Alexandra and her daughters serving as nurses in World War I.
Images from Nicholas and Alexandra:
1. The coronation of Nicholas II.
2. Emperor Nicholas II presenting regimental colors to an infantry regiment.
3. Court dress of Empress Alexandra.
4. Commander-in-Chief uniform of Grand Duchess Olga.
5. Nobles’ ball in St. Petersburg.
6. Emperor Nicholas II’s speech opening the First Duma.
7. Military banners.
8. Nicholas, Alexandra, and others dressed in costumes for a ball, 1903.
9. Emperor Nicholas II, Empress Alexandra, and their children.
Faberge Egg: The Imperial Tercentenary Egg
Class no. 4: Empire, Nation, and Nationalism
Paintings from The Russian Museum:
1. Vasily Surikov, “Yermak’s Conquest of Siberia,” 1895.
2. Ilya Repin, “The Zaporozhian Cossacks Writing a Mocking Letter to the Turkish Sultan,” 1880-1891.
3. Vasily Vereschagin, “Shipka-Sheinovo (Skobolev outside Shipka),” before 1890.
Photographs from M. Lyons, Russia in Original Photographs, 1860-1920:
1. Abkhazian chieftan (Caucasus), c. 1890.
2. A Khabardin (one of the largest Caucasian groups).
3. The Cathedral of St. Alexander Nevsky (constructed 1894-1912), Saxon Square, Warsaw, Poland, c. 1912.
Photographs from K. Fitzlyon et al., Before the Revolution:
1. The Empress Alexandra with the Emir of Bokhara at the imperial residence in the Crimea, 1909.
2. Buriat soldiers of the Trans-Baikal Cossacks.
Photographs from S. M. Prokudin-Gorskii, Photographs for the Tsar:
1. Chinese master tea-grower Lau Dzhen-dzhan (Georgia, Caucasus).
2. Tea gatherers, Greek women and girls (Georgia, Caucasus).
3. Weighing room, Chakva tea works, near Batumi (Georgia, Caucasus).
Class no. 6: The Peasantry: Isolation and Stagnation or Adaptation and Integration?
1. Nikolai Bogdanov-Belsky, “Oral Reckoning,” 1895.
2. Nikolai Bogdanov-Belsky, “At the Ferry Landing,” 1915.
3. Sergei Ivanov, “Death of a Migrant Peasant,” 1889.
4. Sergei Korovin, “Meeting of the Village Community,” 1893.
Class no. 8: Religion, Modernization, and Identity
1. Vasily Perov, “Village Icon Procession at Easter,” 1861.
2. Vasily Perov, “Tea Drinking in Mytishchi near Moscow,” 1862.
3. Vasily Perov, “Meal in a Monastery,” 1865-1876.
4. Mikhail Nesterov, “Spiritual Hermit,” 1888-1889.
5. Mikhail Nesterov, “The Young Bartholomew’s Vision,” 1889-1890.
6. Mikhail Nesterov, “Taking the Veil,” 1898.
7. Andrei Karelin/Ivan Shishkin, The Nizhnii Novgorod Convent of the Exaltation of the Cross, 1870.
8. Maksim Dmitriev, View of the St. Seraphim-All-Sorrows Convent, Ponetaevka, 1890s.
9. Ilia Repin, “Icon Procession in Kursk Province,” 1880-1883.
10. Illarion Prianishnikov, “Icon Procession,” 1893.
13. Vasily Maksimov, “The Sick Husband,” 1881.
14. Vasily Vershchagin, “Mortally Wounded,” 1873.
15. Vasily Polenov, “Moscow Courtyard,” 1902.
16. Isaak Levitan, “Evening Bells,” 1892.
Class no. 9: Refashioning Urban Russia
Paintings from The Itinerants and The Russian Museum:
1. Abram Arkhipov, “Laundresses,” 1901.
2. Klavdy Lebedev, “To See Their Son,” 1894.
3. Vladimir Makovsky, “Bank Failure,” 1881.
4. Vladimir Makovsky, “On the Boulevard,” 1886-1887.
5. Vladimir Makovsky, “A Doss-House,” 1889.
6. Vladimir Makovsky, “The Tea Party,” 1875-1897.
Architecture from Russian Modernism and William Brumfield, The Origins of Modernism in Russian Architecture:
1. V. M. Vasnetsov and V. D. Polenov, Church of the Icon of the Savior at Abramtsevo, 1881-1882.
2. V. M. Vasnetsov, The Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow, 1902-1905.
3. Roman Meltser, Orthopedic Institute, St. Petersburg, 1902-1905.
4. V. D. Polenov, Studio “Abbatstvo” at Polenova, near Tarusa, 1904.
5. S. I. Vashkov, Church in the village of Kliazma, near Moscow, 1913-1916.
6. S. V. Maliutin, Pertsov house, Moscow, 1905-1907.
7. S. V. Maliutin, Pertsov house, Moscow, detail, 1905-1907.
9. F. O. Shekhtel’, House for Z. G. Morozova, Moscow, 1893.
10. F. O. Shekhtel’, House for Z. G. Morozova, living room, Moscow, 1893.
11. F. O. Shekhtel’, House for A. I. Derozhinskaia, Moscow, 1901-1902.
12. F. O. Shekhtel’, House for A. I. Derozhinskaia, Moscow, interior, 1901-1902.
13. F. O. Shekhtel’, House for A. I. Derozhinskaia, Moscow, interior, 1901-1902.
14. F. O. Shekhtel’, House for Stepan Riabushinskii, Moscow, 1900-1902.
15. F. O. Shekhtel’, House for Stepan Riabushinskii, mosaic detail, Moscow, 1900-1902.
16. F. O. Shekhtel’, House for Stepan Riabushinskii, side façade, Moscow, 1900-1902.
17. F. O. Shekhtel’, House for Stepan Riabushinskii, interior, Moscow, 1900-1902.
18. F. O. Shekhtel’, Moscow Art Theater, Moscow, 1902.
19. F. O. Shekhtel’, A. A. Levenson Press, Moscow, 1900.
20. Aleksei Buber’, Apartment House, Fontanka Quay, St. Petersburg, 1910-1911.
21. Gavriil Baranovskii, Eliseev Building, St. Petersburg, 1902-1904.
Scenes of Nizhnii Novgorod:
Painting from The Itinerants:
Photographs from Maksim Dmitriev:
1. D. V. Sirotkin, Mayor of Nizhnii Novgorod and Chairman of the Stock Exchange Commission, 1913-1917.
2. Merchant Mikhail Rukavishnikov.
3. Members of the Credit Committee of the Trade Fair Bank.
4. Wedding of the merchant M. N. Blinov.
5. Women of the Charitable Society with the provincial governor, M. N. Shramchenko.
6. City firemen, with the provincial governor, A. N. Khvostov (front row, fifth from left).
8. Main street (Bolshaia Pokrovka), with the theater on the right.
9. House of Labor, named in honor of Mikhail and Liubov Rukavishnikov.
11. State Bank building, 1913.
12. Lower embankment, along the Volga River. The trade fair grounds are across the river.
13. Blinov Brothers’ Flour Mill, village of Filippovka, Semenovsk district.
14. Railroad station and square.
15. Bashkirov Flour Mill, Kunavino district.
16. Clerks and workers at the Sormovo factory, on the day the 100th engine was produced.
17. Shrapnel works, Sormovo factory, 1915-1916.
19. Workers at the mining mills in Kulebaki.
20. Main building, Nizhnii Novgorod Trade Fair.
21. Fair stalls, Nizhnii Novgorod Trade Fair.
22. Merry-go-round, Samokatskaia Square, Nizhnii Novgorod Trade Fair.
23. Movie theater, Samokatskaia Square, Nizhnii Novgorod Trade Fair.
24. Gustov sisters, music hall singers, Nizhnii Novgorod Trade Fair.
25. Machines Department/Exhibit Hall, 1896 All-Russian Exposition, Nizhnii Novgorod.
26. Interior view, Machines Department, 1896 All-Russian Exposition, Nizhnii Novgorod.
27. First Russian automobile, exhibited at the 1896 All-Russian Exposition, Nizhnii Novgorod.
29. Theater and restaurant of T. Astaf’ev, 1896 All-Russian Exposition, Nizhnii Novgorod.
30. House for public entertainment and meetings, 1896 All-Russian Exposition, Nizhnii Novgorod.
32. Spasskii (Savior) Street and Spasskii Cathedral.
33. Junkshop in Balchug, c. 1890.
34. State wine shop, before opening, early 1900s.
35. Annual religious procession, bringing the Oran Mother of God icon to Nizhnii Novgorod, 1890s.
Class no. 12: The Bronze Horseman
1. The Bronze Horseman, St. Petersburg.
Class no. 13: Avant Garde Reactions to 1905: Modernism
From: Women Artists of Russia’s New Age, 1900-1935, Amazons of the Avant-Garde: Exter, Goncharova, Popova, Rozanova, Stepanova, Udaltsova, and V. N. Lasarev, The Moscow School of Icon-Painting:
1. Natalia Goncharova, “Self-Portrait with Yellow Lilies,” 1907.
2. Natalia Goncharova, “Fruit Harvest,” 1909.
3. Natalia Goncharova, “Fruit Harvest,” 1909.
4. Natalia Goncharova, “Haycutting,” 1910.
5. Andrei Rublev, Archangel Michael, 1410-1420.
6. Andrei Rublev, The Apostle Paul, 1410-1420.
7. Natalia Goncharova, “The Evangelists,” 1910.
8. School of Andrei Rublev, The Nativity, 1410-1430.
9. Workshop of Dionisy, The Birth of Elevferiy-Alexey, panel, 1480-1490.
10. Natalia Goncharova, “Nativity,” 1910.
11. Workshop of Dionisy, The Descent of Christ Into Hell, 1502-1503.
12. Natalia Goncharova, “Apocalypse,” 1910.
13. Natalia Goncharova, “Peasants Gathering Grapes,” 1912.
14. Natalia Goncharova, “Yellow and Green Forest, Rayonist Construction,” 1912.
15. Natalia Goncharova, “The Weaver,” 1912-1913.
16. Natalia Goncharova, “Cyclist,” 1913. (Class 9, Itinerants and Russian Museum, no. 7)
