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Tsars and Cossacks: A Study in Iconography (Harvard Papers in Ukrainian Studies) - Softcover

Plokhy, Serhii

 
9780916458959: Tsars and Cossacks: A Study in Iconography (Harvard Papers in Ukrainian Studies)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0916458954 ISBN 13: 9780916458959
Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2003

Synopsis

Ukrainian Cossacks used icon painting to investigate their relationship not only with God but also their relationship with the Russian tsar. Could Emperor Peter I and his adversary in the Battle of Poltava (1709)―the Cossack Hetman Ivan Mazepa―be depicted in the same icon? Why did the Cossack colonels commission icons with the portraits of their tsars, but not of their own Cossack leaders, the hetmans? Could a Catholic king be portrayed in an Orthodox icon? Why are the Russian tsars and Orthodox hierarchs missing on some of the Zaporozhian Cossack icons?

In this groundbreaking study, Serhii Plokhy provides answers to these and many other questions pertaining to the political and religious culture of Ukrainian Cossackdom, as reflected in the Cossack-era paintings, icons, and woodcuts. By encouraging the iconography to “speak,” Tsars and Cossacks helps to broaden and deepen our understanding of Ukrainian iconography as well as Russian imperial political culture.

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About the Author

Serhii Plokhy is Mykhailo S. Hrushevs´kyi Professor of Ukrainian History in the Department of History and Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University.

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Publisher
Harvard University Press
Publication date
2003
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0916458954
ISBN 13 
9780916458959
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
132