Nove znanstvene spoznaje o kiparu i altaristu Antoniju Michelazziju (Gradisca d'Isonzo, 1707. – Rijeka, 1771.) pokazale su kako je riječ o kudikamo kompleksnijoj stvaralačkoj ličnosti, nego što je to ...do sada bilo poznato. Ovom mu se prigodom pripisuju mramorni kipovi sv. Ivana Krstitelja i sv. Marka na glavnom oltaru župne crkve San Biagio u Cinto Caomaggioreu. Potvrđuje se i Michelazzijevo autorstvo mramornog oltara Svetog Križa u župnoj crkvi Marijina Uznesenja u Rijeci, a na temelju potvrde iz 1740. o primitku 150 zlatnika za rad na ovom oltaru. Uz Michelazzijeve kipove u Cintu na glavnom je oltaru smješten kip Vjere koji se prepoznaje kao djelo venecijanskog kipara Francesca Cabiance (Venecija, 1666. – 1737.). Njemu se pripisuje niz drugih skulptura počevši od dvaju mramornih anđela u župnoj crkvi u Preganziolu, a za koje je utvrđeno da su nastali 1697. i izvorno se nalazili u crkvi San Cristoforo u Udinama. Cabianca je isklesao četiri mramorna kipa evanđelista (aukcijska kuća), kao i kiparsku dekoraciju na glavnom oltaru župne crkve Sant'Andrea u Ceredi. Njegov katalog za privatne naručitelje oplemenjen je s pet novih mramornih bista nastalih tijekom drugog desetljeća 18. stoljeća. To su poprsja Flore i Apolona u Zimskom vrtu u Sankt-Peterburgu, bista Djevojke (aukcijska kuća) te dva poprsja Djevojaka iz samostana San Lazzaro degli Armeni u Veneciji. Kao Cabiancin rad prepoznaje se i mramorni reljef Ecce Homo u crkvi Il Redentore u Veneciji te anđeli na oltaru Presvetog Sakramenta u crkvi Svetog Šime u Zadru. Konačno, terakotna skulptura svetog Ivana Evanđelista (aukcijska kuća) prepoznaje se kao prvi model za veliki mamorni kip istoimenog sveca u Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista u Veneciji.
Sofia Petrovna Svechina (1782–1857), better known as Madame Sophie Swetchine, was the hostess of a famous nineteenth-century Parisian salon. A Russian émigré, Svechina moved to France with her ...husband in 1816. She had recently converted to Roman Catholicism, and the salon she opened acquired a distinctly religious character. It quickly became one of the most popular salons in Paris and was a meeting place for the French intellectual Catholic elite and members of the Liberal Catholic movement. As a salonniére, Svechina developed close friendships with some of the most noted public figures in the Liberal Catholic movement. Her involvement with her guests went deeper than the typical salonniére's. She was a mentor, spiritual counselor, and intellectual advisor to many distinguished Parisian men and women, and her influence extended beyond the walls of her salon into the public world of politics and ideas. In this fascinating biography, Tatyana Bakhmetyeva seeks to understand the creative process that informed Svechina's life and examines her subject in the context of nineteenth-century thought and letters. It will appeal to educated readers interested in European and Russian history, the history of Catholicism, and women's history.
Winner of the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize Winner of the AATSEEL Book Prize Winner of the University of Southern California Book Prize Honorable Mention, Reginald Zelnik Book Prize "Stand aside, ...Homer. I doubt whether even the author of the Iliad could have matched Alexis Peri's account of the 872-day siege which Leningrad endured." —Jonathan Mirsky, The Spectator "Fascinating and perceptive." —Antony Beevor, New York Review of Books "Powerful and illuminating…A fascinating, insightful, and nuanced work." —Anna Reid, Times Literary Supplement "A sensitive, at times almost poetic examination." —Robert Legvold, Foreign Affairs In September 1941, two and a half months after the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, the German Wehrmacht encircled Leningrad. Cut off from the rest of Russia, the city remained blockaded for 872 days, at a cost of almost a million civilian lives. It was one of the longest and deadliest sieges in modern history. The War Within chronicles the Leningrad blockade from the perspective of those who endured it. Drawing on unpublished diaries written by men and women from all walks of life, Alexis Peri tells the tragic story of how young and old struggled to make sense of a world collapsing around them. When the blockade was lifted in 1944, Kremlin officials censored publications describing the ordeal and arrested many of Leningrad's wartime leaders. Some were executed. Diaries—now dangerous to their authors—were concealed in homes, shelved in archives, and forgotten. The War Within recovers these lost accounts, shedding light on one of World War II's darkest episodes while paying tribute the resilience of the human spirit.
Countess Sofia Panina lived a remarkable life. Born into an aristocratic family in imperial Russia, she found her true calling in improving the lives of urban workers. Her passion for social service ...and reputation as the "Red Countess" led her to political prominence after the fall of the Romanovs. She became the first woman to hold a cabinet position and the first political prisoner tried by the Bolsheviks. The upheavals of the 1917 Revolution forced her to flee her beloved country, but instead of living a quiet life in exile she devoted the rest of her long life to humanitarian efforts on behalf of fellow refugees. Based on Adele Lindenmeyr's detailed research in dozens of archival collections, Citizen Countess establishes Sofia Panina as an astute eyewitness to and passionate participant in the historical events that shaped her life. Her experiences shed light on the evolution of the European nobility, women's emancipation and political influence of the time, and the fate of Russian liberalism.
Jeff Sahadeo reveals the complex and fascinating stories of migrant populations in Leningrad and Moscow.Voices from the Soviet Edgefocuses on the hundreds of thousands of Uzbeks, Tajiks, Georgians, ...Azerbaijanis, and others who arrived toward the end of the Soviet era, seeking opportunity at the privileged heart of the USSR. Through the extensive oral histories Sahadeo has collected, he shows how the energy of these migrants, denigrated as "Blacks" by some Russians, transformed their families' lives and created inter-republican networks, altering society and community in both the center and the periphery of life in the "two capitals."
Voices from the Soviet Edgeconnects Leningrad and Moscow to transnational trends of core-periphery movement and marks them as global cities. In examining Soviet concepts such as "friendship of peoples" alongside ethnic and national differences, Sahadeo shows how those ideas became racialized but could also be deployed to advance migrant aspirations. He exposes the Brezhnev era as a time of dynamism and opportunity, and Leningrad and Moscow not as isolated outposts of privilege but at the heart of any number of systems that linked the disparate regions of the USSR into a whole. In the 1980s, as the Soviet Union crumbled, migration increased. These later migrants were the forbears of contemporary Muslims from former Soviet spaces who now confront significant discrimination in European Russia. As Sahadeo demonstrates, the two cities benefited from 1980s' migration but also became communities where racism and exclusion coexisted with citizenship and Soviet identity.
This book investigates the demobilization and post-war readjustment of Red Army veterans in Leningrad and its environs after the Great Patriotic War. Over 300,000 soldiers were stood down in this ...war-ravaged region between July 1945 and 1948. They found the transition to civilian life more challenging than many could ever have imagined. For civilian Leningraders, reintegrating the rapid influx of former soldiers represented an enormous political, economic, social and cultural challenge. In this book, Robert Dale reveals how these former soldiers became civilians in a society devastated and traumatized by total warfare. Dale discusses how, and how successfully, veterans became ordinary citizens. Based on extensive original research in local and national archives, oral history interviews and the examination of various newspaper collections, Demobilized Veterans in Late Stalinist Leningrad peels back the myths woven around demobilization, to reveal a darker history repressed by society and concealed from historiography. While propaganda celebrated this disarmament as a smooth process which reunited veterans with their families, reintegrated them into the workforce and facilitated upward social mobility, the reality was rarely straightforward. Many veterans were caught up in the scramble for work, housing, healthcare and state hand-outs. Others drifted to the social margins, criminality or became the victims of post-war political repression. Demobilized Veterans in Late Stalinist Leningrad tells the story of both the failure of local representatives to support returning Soviet soldiers, and the remarkable resilience and creativity of veterans in solving the problems created by their return to society. It is a vital study for all scholars and students of post-war Soviet history and the impact of war in the modern era.
A new edition of a classic history of the Bolsheviks which destroys the platitudes of mainstream histories, reclaiming the revolution on its centenary.
The Petrograd Workers in the Russian Revolution is a study of revolution 'from below', from the industrial districts of Russia's capital. It allows the workers speak for themselves, as conscious, ...creative subjects of the revolutionary process.
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