Four Russian Serf Narratives

List of Illustrations

ix Illustrations Map showing the major places visited by Nikolai Smirnov, P., and Nikolai Shipov during their respective travels 2 G. V. Soroka, “The Office at Ostrovki” 26 Photograph by M. P. Nastiukov, “The Banks of the Volga at Rybinsk,” 1867 51 Anonymous nineteenth-century drawing, “Peasant at Work” 76 A. G. Venetsianov, “The Threshing Barn,” 1822–23 92 G. V. Soroka, “View of the Dam on the Estate Spasskoe,” 1840s 119 “Betrothal,” etching by N. Shakhovskoi 126 I. V. Boldyrev, “Holiday Market in Tsymlianskaia Stanitsa,” 1875–76 137 Portrait of Shamil 179 Portrait of Count Vorontsov 193 P. Bezsonov, “Portrait of a Lackey Sweeping,” 1836 206 Nicolas de Courteille, “Portrait of Anna Borunova” 208 ...