The Visual Dominant in Eighteenth-Century Russia

Contents

C O N T E N T S List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction—An Archaeology of Vision 3 1 Prolegomena—Making Russia Visible 15 2 The Moment of the Muses—Lomonosov’s Odes 28 3 Bogovidenie—Orthodox Vision and the Odes 64 4 The Staging of the Self 78 5 Virtue Must Advertise—The Ethics of Vision 124 6 The Seen, the Unseen, and the Obvious 151 7 The Icon That Started a Riot 195 8 The Dialectic of Vision in Radishchev’s Journey 222 Conclusion—Russian Culture as a Mirage 253 Notes 271 Index 340 ...