CONTENTS

Preface

Introduction

PART ONE: RUSSIAN CULTURE

1. Notes on the Emergence and Nature of the Russian Intelligentsia

Nicholas Riasanovsky

2. St. Petersburg and Moscow as Cultural Symbols

Sidney Monas

3. On the Russianness of the Russian Nineteenth-Century Novel

Donald Fanger

4. Native Song and National Consciousness in Nineteenth-Century Russian Music

Malcolm Hamrick Brown

PART TWO: RUSSIAN ART AND SOCIETY

5. Russian Art and Society, 1800-1850

S. Frederick Starr

6. Russian Painting in the Nineteenth Century

John E. Bowlt

7. Russian Painters and the Pursuit of Light

Joshua Taylor

8. The Intelligentsia and Art

Elizabeth Kridl Valkenier

9. Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Russia: The Enduring Classic

Albert Schmidt

10. The Neoclassical Ideal in Russian Sculpture

Janet Kennedy

11. A Survey of Trends in the Russian Decorative Arts of the First Half of the Nineteenth Century

Paul Schaffer

12. Nineteenth-Century Russian Caricature

John E. Bowlt

13. Russian Folk Art and “High” Art in the Early Nineteenth Century

Alison Hilton

Plates for chapters 6-8 following page

Plates for chapters 9-10 following page

Plates for chapters 11-13 following page

Contributors

Credits

Index