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.
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.
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.
An exploration of the mythology and reality of post-revolutionary proletarian art in Russia as well as its expression in the festive decorations of Petrograd between 1917 and 1920.
A major contribution to the historiography of the world in the 20th century, The Bolsheviks in Power focuses on the fateful first year of Soviet rule in Petrograd. It examines events that profoundly ...shaped the Soviet political system that endured through most of the 20th century. Drawing largely from previously inaccessible Soviet archives, it demolishes standard interpretations of the origins of Soviet authoritarianism by demonstrating that the Soviet system evolved ad hoc as the Bolsheviks struggled to retain political power amid spiraling political, social, economic, and military crises. The book covers issues such as the rapid fall of influential moderate Bolsheviks, the formation of the dreaded Cheka, the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly, the Red Terror, the national government's flight to Moscow, and the subsequent rivalry between Russia's new and old capitals.
Based largely on formerly top-secret Soviet archival documents (including 66 reproduced documents and 70 illustrations), this book portrays the inner workings of the communist party and secret police ...during Germany's horrific 1941-44 siege of Leningrad, during which close to one million citizens perished. It shows how the city's inhabitants responded to the extraordinary demands placed upon them, encompassing both the activities of the political, security, and military elite as well as the actions and attitudes of ordinary Leningraders.
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