Iurii Dolgorukii (‘Long-arm’). Medieval Moscow.

Iurii Dolgorukii (‘Long-arm’)

Medieval Moscow

Vasnetsov, Kitai-Gorod, Moscow

Medieval Novgorod

Ivan III (The Great)(1440-[1462]-1505)

Vasilii III (1479-[1505]-1533)

Ivan IV (The “Terrible”)(1530-[1547]-1584)

Ivan as Epic Hero (Bogatyr’)

Blessed are the Soldiers of the heavenly King – the Church Militant Icon

(anon; 1550s)

St. Basil’s CathedralIvan’s Commemoration of the Capture of Kazan’

(built, 1555-61)

Aleksandrova Settlement

Oprichnik

German Allegory of Ivan’s Brutalities

“Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan on Friday, November 16, 1581”

Il’ia Repin (1870-73)

Fedor I (1557-[1584]-1598]

Boris Godunov (1551- [1584]-[1598]-1605)

Tsar Vasilii IV (Shuisky) (1552-[1606]-1610)

Kuzma Minin appeals to Nizhnii Novgorod for volunteers to expel Poles from Moscow

Prince Dmitrii Pozharsky and Kuzma Minin (monument unveiled 1818 in Red Square)

Tsar Michael Romanov1596-[1613]-1645

Patriarch Filaret (Fedor Nikitich Romanov) (1553-[1619]-1633)

Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648)Population Losses

Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich1629-[1645]-1676

Fedor III 1661-[1676]-1682

Malorossiia (‘Little Russia’)

Bogdan Khmel’nitsky (1595-1657)

Patriarch Nikon (1605-1681) [Raskol]

Khlysty (flagellants)

Molokane (‘milk-drinkers’)

Sten’ka Razin on his way to Execution

Civil War Armoured Car called “Sten’ka Razin”

Tsar Fedor III (1661-[1676]-1682)

Ivan V (1666-[1682]-1696)

Peter the Great (1672-[1682][1696]-1725)

Regent Sofia (1657-[1682-1689]-1704)

Tsar Carpenter

Tsar-Barber

Tsar-Dentist

Vasilii Surikov, “Morning of the Streltsy Execution” (1881)

Monastery of the Holy Trinity Saint Grand Duke Alexander Nevsky (1710)

Great Northern War (1700-1721)

Hetman Ivan Mazepa (1639-1709)

"The police has its special calling: which is to intervene to protect justice and rights to generate good order and morals, to guarantee safety from thieves, robbers, rapists and extortioners, to extirpate disordered and loose living. It binds everyone to labour and an honest profession...It defends widows, orphans and foreigners in accordance with God’s law, educates the young in chaste purity and honest learning; in short, for all of these, the police is the soul of citizenship and of all good order." (1724, edict by Peter the Great)

Kitai-Gorod (expanded by Peter I, 1690-1710)

Dormition (or Assumption) Cathedral (Uspenskii Sobor) (built by Aristotele Fioravanti, 1475-79)

The Cathedral of the Annunciation (Blagoveshchenskii sobor) (Pskov stonelayers, 1484-89)

The Cathedral of the Archangel (Arkhangel'skii sobor) (Aleviz Novyi, 1505-08)

Cathedral of the ArchangelIconostasis

Central IconArchangel Michael

The Church of the Twelve Apostles (Tserkov' Dvenadtsati Apostolov) (Patriarch Nikon, 1653-55)

Terem Palace (Teremnoi dvorets) (1635-36)

Tsar-Cannon (Tsar-Pushka) (1586)

The Tsar-Bell (Tsar-Kolokol) (1733-35)

First Stone Buildings – the Admiralty

Peter-Paul Fortress (one of first constructions, St. Petersburg dates from its first

stone, May 1703)

Peter’s domik

Series of wooden huts built first to house the influx of workers

Peter I wanted a planned city, and Italian architect Tresini designed it (but Jean-Baptiste Leblon offered this plan in 1717 (not followed))

Kikin mansion (1714)

Menshikov Palace (1710-1727)

Yusupov Palace, 1770s

Yusupov Palace Theatre

Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Frederik Ruysch (Jan van Neck, 1683)

Kazan’ Cathedral (1801-11), inspired by Basilica of St. Peter’s in Rome, intended as Russia’s main Orthodox church and post-1812

monument to Russian victory over Napoleon

Church of the Savior on the Spilled Blood

Prince Alexander Danilovich Menshikov (1673-1729) (‘Generalissimus’)

Menshikov Palace

Count Ernst-Johann Biron (“Bironovshchina”)(1690-1772)

Ivan Shuvalov (1727-1797)

Catherine the Great (1729-[1762]-1796]“You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings” (letter to Diderot)

Stanisław August Poniatowski (1732-[1764]-1798)

Grigory Orlov (1734-1783)“A gel, my sovereign, my dearest husband, my priceless Grishenka, sweet lips, my

falcon, my beautiful pheasant”

Gatchina

Alexander Vasilchikov (1744-1813)

“I parted with a beautiful, but extremely boring man, who was immediately replaced - to my own surprise - with the most outstanding original of our age”

Grigorii Potemkin (1739-1791)“My lord Potemkin! What a bad thing you have done!  You confused the head,

thought to be the most brilliant in Europe!”

“As God is my witness, I don't do this out of debauchery, to which I am not inclined. If I had a husband whom I could love, I would have stayed with him forever”

Platon Aleksandrovich Zubov (1767-1822)

Taming of the Shrew (Katharine and Petruchio, The Modern Quixote) (1791)

The Bronze Horseman(commissioned by Catherine the Great, constructed 1770-82)

"for the benefit of my Empire I pillaged President Montesquieu [his 1748 "Spirit of Laws"], without naming him in the text. I hope that if he had seen me at work, he would have forgiven this literary theft if only for the good of 20 million people which it may bring about. He loved humanity too much to be offended."

Catherine Visiting Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765) in 1764 (Ivan Fedorov, 1884)

Baba Yaga

Thomas Dimsdale (1712-1800)

Alexander Radishchev (1749-1802)

Regent Sofia (1657-[1682-1689]-1704)

Palekh BoxPushkin’s Dream

Palekh PaintingFairytale hero Sadko

Wooden Churches(photos by Michelle Minaskanian)