4 10 73 https://exhibits.lib.ku.edu/files/original/74f7894b060e6950142c23044a1e61b8.jpg fb1b81d4f4277fd884147b982d3281f1 Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all image files. Width 700 Height 902 Bit Depth 8 Channels 3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Frosted Windows Description An account of the resource Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Gordon Anthony. Russian ballet; camera studies. London: G. Bles, 1939. E336 Description An account of the resource Love and Death. Everywhere in the world, Russian ballet = Russian soul. On the eve of World War I Petrograd's avant-garde artistic community revolted against the stuffy, rigid conservatism of the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in what one person called "the revolution before the revolution." It was the period of time when Sergei Diagilev would put Russian musicians and other artists to work turning Russian music, movement, theater design, painting, and intense drama into sumptuous ballets. The royal family, decidedly NOT ahead of its time, however, didn't think much of these productions and before long Diagilev was forbidden to perform in the city's imperial theaters. Stravinsky's Petrushka was yanked up and moved with Fokin's Ballets Russes to Paris. Petrushka, the puppet who comes to life, had been a favorite carnival character of the young Aleksandr Benois, but the people of Petrograd in those days never got to share the nostalgia and longing of this story embodying the soul of Old St. Petersburg. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://spencer.lib.ku.edu/using-the-library/library-use-and-policies">http://spencer.lib.ku.edu/using-the-library/library-use-and-policies</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context E336 https://exhibits.lib.ku.edu/files/original/d2fd67c5d3e1e017274e8c6763f19ef2.jpg 574cc8e87c08ba977a368593eb9058c5 Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all image files. Width 700 Height 713 Bit Depth 8 Channels 3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Frosted Windows Description An account of the resource Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rasseja. [Mit einführenden Aufsätzen von Oskar Bie, Pavel Barchan, Alexander Benois und Boris Grigoriew], 1922. D2463 Description An account of the resource The Possessed... If you, like the Russian authorities, dislike "the distortion of the images of the Russian peasantry and their social life," in Grigorev's edition of Rasseja, then look to Shchedrovskii's more realistic but much earlier view. This volume was published simultaneously in St. Petersburg and Berlin and the artist was criticized in Petrograd/Leningrad for his "distortions." He had emigrated in 1919 to the West, and this German edition differs from the Russian edition printed in Berlin, and printed there again in 1922 in that it has three times more oils and graphics. Can we assume there was some bowdlerizing of the Russian edition? Alexander Benois, from whose private library our copy comes, wrote part of the text. The art of Grigorev is said to be rather close to the work of later German expressionists such as Otto Dix and George Grosz, and he was one of the first Russian artists to have an exhibition in the U.S. after the war, a successful one at that, at the Brooklyn Museum. The Department of Special Collections had an opportunity some years ago to buy a few of the books from the library of Aleksandr Benois of the Benois dynasty of intellectuals in art and architecture. Benois felt that Petersburg's architecture was not derivative, but rather was unique within the tradition of neo-Classicism and that Petersburg itself should become the subject of Russian art, that it was not inimical to native Russian styles. He was a preservationist of the Old-Guard, a member of the Society for Old Petersburg. But he became a westerner when he emigrated in 1926. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://spencer.lib.ku.edu/using-the-library/library-use-and-policies">http://spencer.lib.ku.edu/using-the-library/library-use-and-policies</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D2463 https://exhibits.lib.ku.edu/files/original/a49fe61f394292120d64b1e7c4803d40.jpg e369cc01879fceb495836e304ff319f5 Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all image files. Width 700 Height 406 Bit Depth 8 Channels 4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Frosted Windows Description An account of the resource Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rose Celli. Conte de petit poisson d’or. Dessins de I. Bilibine. Paris: Flammarion, 1933. Children 6509 Description An account of the resource It Takes a Village... When there's talk of Russia – and especially of Petersburg – there's talk of contrasts, opposites, contradictions. This theme is a constant in Biely's novel Petersburg. Petersburg is fog, Moscow is sunshine. Moscow is medieval stave churches and onion domes, Petersburg was planned and executed by the Italians and French. Moscow is ancient, Petersburg is modern. Born on the eve of World War II into a leftist/pacifist family (my uncle sold tractors in Russia in the 30s with a fellow-traveler from Eureka, Kansas), this exhibit-maker was one westerner who grew up with a fascination for the fabrics, wooden toys, phonograph records, and other objects around the house that had been sent from that magical place. My uncle returned, disillusioned with the Communist Experiment. Came the war and my confusion over the contrast of the violent images in the newsreels with the colorful villages of the books like this one of Celli's; the dull black and white images in our Weekly Readers at school against cheery stories of Baba Yaga in my Jack and Jill. (My uncle explained that the real Russian Baba Yaga was not so child-friendly!) If you had shown me pictures of Petersburg in 1945, when I was 7, and told me it was Russia, I would have cried and argued with you that it did not look like the Russia I knew. P.-burg was gray, Moscow was red. I might still argue with you. One of these summers, I'll see Petersburg with the frost melted from my glasses. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://spencer.lib.ku.edu/using-the-library/library-use-and-policies">http://spencer.lib.ku.edu/using-the-library/library-use-and-policies</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Children 6509 https://exhibits.lib.ku.edu/files/original/f5866a0a10979d4ed016c8630a79d1ed.jpg 183d83f82330f6cd59fe35a3d0823391 Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all image files. Width 700 Height 865 Bit Depth 8 Channels 3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Frosted Windows Description An account of the resource Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Shoeless Yosuf... Description An account of the resource Shoeless Yosuf... One of this westerner's childhood memories is children's books from Europe. They were in French, German, Russian, and thus "unreadable" but beloved just the same, and linguistic barriers contributed to their mystique. This department has a good collection of children's books, many in languages other than English, like this one perfect for the beginning language student. Samuil Marshak was a leader of the Leningrad producers of children's books. He founded, in 1920, one of the first children's theaters in the Soviet Union, and wrote plays for it. But even this group of authors did not escape interrogation, deportment and execution in Stalin's purges of the 1930s when 30,000 Leningraders – scholars, scientists, poets, artists, writers, composers – were sent to labor camps in Siberia and the Arctic. "Kiddie Lit" would not in general serve as a good cover for clandestine operations. Marshak had taken coursework in the art department at the University of London, had translated Shakespeare, Burns, Blake, Wordsworth, Keats, Kipling, Lear, and Milne (as well as verse of Ukrainian, Belarusian, Lithuanian, and Armenian poets) and so was as suspect as those Russian ballerinas who might have had a second dance or lingered too long with a western diplomat at an official Leningrad reception. For many Soviet intellectuals, life was nasty, brutish and short. Marshak was one of those who in spite of torture and exile managed to survive, ultimately to receive two Orders of Lenin and a number of medals. AND to live until late into his 70s. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://spencer.lib.ku.edu/using-the-library/library-use-and-policies">http://spencer.lib.ku.edu/using-the-library/library-use-and-policies</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Children 5192 https://exhibits.lib.ku.edu/files/original/d1bf975678a8271d81d47fd17c085c77.jpg 0a6c6488076b448ffebbfa575b6ffa1a Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all image files. Width 700 Height 952 Bit Depth 8 Channels 3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Frosted Windows Description An account of the resource Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource André Schaeffner (born 1895). Strawinsky. Paris: Les Éditions Rieder, 1938. C9651 Description An account of the resource The Last of the Warmenoughs... It is said that 1913 had the cold feel of revolution in St. P. The weather told the story as it had before in Russian literature (the setting for the events in Pushkin's poem "The Bronze Horseman" was the calamitous flood of 1824, the worst of many). Biely's novel Petersburg appeared that year and foretold the Great War; his oft repeated "oo-oo-oo" symbolizes, of course, the wind. In one of Alexander Blok's poems the October Revolution is depicted as a snowstorm. And 1913 was the 300th anniversary of the founding of the Romanov dynasty and it was observed that in proper Russian irony wind blew down the decorations on the eve of the anniversary celebration. It was just a sign of the times, then, when Stravinsky's 1913 production of "The Rite of Spring," danced by Nijinsky, blew into Paris and took it by storm and scandal. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://spencer.lib.ku.edu/using-the-library/library-use-and-policies">http://spencer.lib.ku.edu/using-the-library/library-use-and-policies</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context C9651 https://exhibits.lib.ku.edu/files/original/07fbca4a9c8aa3693ecf3496ee885d5d.jpg 5da6e6eba6797e31e59cad2bc46114fe Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all image files. Width 700 Height 1221 Bit Depth 8 Channels 3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Frosted Windows Description An account of the resource Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Romer Wilson (1891-1930). The social climbers: a Russian middle-class tragedy in four acts seen through London: Ernest Benn, 1927. B6125 Description An account of the resource Feodor: Verochka, do you remember those evenings we spent in the cornfields? British writer Romer Wilson's novels and novellas and in this case, a play, deal with the issues of art, love, and contemporary issues – contemporary with the first quarter of the 20th century in Leningrad in this instance. This is one of 250 copies signed by the author, a fine bibliographical prize for a middle-class social-climbing book-collector. Relation A related resource <a href="http://spencer.lib.ku.edu/using-the-library/library-use-and-policies">http://spencer.lib.ku.edu/using-the-library/library-use-and-policies</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context B6125 https://exhibits.lib.ku.edu/files/original/13a4b0b8b65a69c0ab7ed4e1d9a0d912.jpg 79d01a9ddbfb2c214cce34c8930387bd Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all image files. Width 700 Height 967 Bit Depth 8 Channels 3 IPTC String caption:Untitled, Wed Mar 12, 2003, 4:02:12 PM, 8C, 2792x1967, (1648+2801), 100%, straight 6 sto, 1/40 s, R51, G53, B80 �� IPTC Array a:1:{s:7:"caption";s:255:"Untitled, Wed Mar 12, 2003, 4:02:12 PM, 8C, 2792x1967, (1648+2801), 100%, straight 6 sto, 1/40 s, R51, G53, B80 ��";} Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Frosted Windows Description An account of the resource Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource William Woodville (1752-1805). Medical botany. 2d ed. London: printed and sold by William Phillips, 1810. Linnæana D92, v.4 Description An account of the resource Hey Baba Reba, Rhubarb Pie! Scottish doctors, surgeons, and naturalists played a pre-eminent part in Anglo/Russian natural history in the 18th and early 19th centuries, for example, John Fraser (1750-1811) as royal botanical collector to the Tsar; Matthew Guthrie as physician in St. P.; John Rogerson at the Russian court; Robert Erskine (1677-1718) as Peter the Great's chief physician. And then there was James "Rhubarb" Mounsey, physician to both the Empress Elizabeth and Peter III, and finally, director of the medical chancery, responsible for all medical affairs throughout Russia. Since the Renaissance, rhubarb (a.k.a. Mongol Metamucil), native to far eastern Russia and China, had resisted Europe's attempts to get a handle on importing it successfully and on its very special botanical and chemical properties. Known and highly valued at least since 2700 B.C. as a cathartic, explorers, botanists, physicians, and pharmacists attempted to adapt it for use in the West, but there were many varieties and it didn't breed true by seed. James Mounsey was to play a big part in acquiring the "real" rhubarb for the English pharmacopoeia. Woodville's account is a good beginning to the story of how it became a state monopoly for Russia and an important commodity for the East India Company. Historian Clifford Faust has written a whole book on the subject. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://spencer.lib.ku.edu/using-the-library/library-use-and-policies">http://spencer.lib.ku.edu/using-the-library/library-use-and-policies</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Linnaeana D92, vol. 4 https://exhibits.lib.ku.edu/files/original/890cc2f87af84c1c471378bc47bae2c8.jpg 3c95f6efd03b14cf40fe35f1ea93500d Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all image files. Width 700 Height 1069 Bit Depth 8 Channels 3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Frosted Windows Description An account of the resource Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Johann Georg Gmelin (1709-1758). Flora sibirica sive Historia plantarum sibiriae. Petropoli: ex Tip. Academiae Scientiarum, 1747-1769. 4 vols. Linnæana D63, v.1 Description An account of the resource Into the Hinterlands of the Mother of all Hinterlands... Johann Georg Gmelin, born into a famous family of German scientists, came to St. Petersburg at the age of 18 (in 1727) and 6 years later took off with German historian Gerhard Friedrich Müller and French astronomer Louis Delisle on a long, difficult, but ultimately extremely important journey into Siberia. With these 3 expedition leaders were 6 students; 2 artists; 2 hunters; 2 mountaineers; 4 surveyors; 12 soldiers including a corporal; a drummer; and a Pallas's owl in a pine tree. The expedition would return to St. P. ten years later and from it would come this four volume botanical work, the first large flora of Siberia and of the utmost rarity when complete, as is our copy. The last two volumes were published after Gmelin's death and in a much smaller edition. It is his most important work and comes from our collection of Linnaeana (the first two volumes are cited in Linné's Species Plantarum, 1753, the most important work in the history of botany). Gmelin's own journal of the expedition was published in four volumes in 1751 and was subsequently translated into several European languages. The grass shown here is from the genus Triticum whence cometh our Kansas Volga Geman brand of Turkey Red wheat. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://spencer.lib.ku.edu/using-the-library/library-use-and-policies">http://spencer.lib.ku.edu/using-the-library/library-use-and-policies</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Linnaeana D63, vol. 1 https://exhibits.lib.ku.edu/files/original/2a1e57407ee289fa32b004e24194a1dd.jpg 092b35b74cc8fdeb6229c645be51fc82 Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all image files. Width 437 Height 652 Bit Depth 8 Channels 3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Frosted Windows Description An account of the resource Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Johann Peter Falk (1727-1774) Beyträge zur topographischen Kenntniss des Russischen Reichs. St. Petersburg: gedruckt bey der Kayserl. Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1785-1786. 3 vols. Linnæana C525 Description An account of the resource Hunting the White Siberian Taiga... The "Academic Expeditions," so-called, had been organized between 1768 and 1774 by the tsardom and would demonstrate the high standards of the Academy of Sciences. The Empress Catherine II, however, wanted prestige as well and to this end had explorers assigned to three main groups that would survey and describe geographically different parts of the country. Johann Peter Falk, a pupil of the great Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus, was one of the leaders, with Pallas, of the most important, the Orenburg Expedition. The task was to make a record of observations on mineralogy, botany (the plants are arranged according to the Linnaean sexual system of classification), zoology, history, ethnology, agriculture and animal husbandry, illnesses, both human and animal, trading and fishing industry, commerce, customs and traditions, archaeology, and more. Reports were sent back to Petersburg and published as soon as received. Unfortunately the stresses of these expeditions were great and many of the participants came to a sad end; some were imprisoned or murdered in places far from home (with no embassies!) Falk himself, completely exhausted and distraught, committed suicide. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://spencer.lib.ku.edu/using-the-library/library-use-and-policies">http://spencer.lib.ku.edu/using-the-library/library-use-and-policies</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Linnaeana C525 https://exhibits.lib.ku.edu/files/original/a2e851e2405218129417e9928e780ae0.jpg 059b6c83721ea97fa6ed8540b7a1066b Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all image files. Width 700 Height 497 Bit Depth 8 Channels 3 IPTC String caption:�� IPTC Array a:1:{s:7:"caption";s:255:"��";} Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Frosted Windows Description An account of the resource Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource L’encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Mis en ordre & publié par M. Diderot. A Paris: chez Briasson, David, Le Breton, 1751-1780. 35 vols. G135, pls. v.6 Description An account of the resource The Trotskys and Other Awful Diseases; or, Bring Out Your Dead... One advantage of living in a frosty clime is that when the temperatures dip, the vectors for plague disappear: rats die and fleas become inactive. For this reason, in part, Petersburg was spared the succeeding waves of bubonic plague that have stuck other parts of Russia during much of her history. Nevertheless, the THREAT to homeland security that Catherine the Great felt near the end of the 18th century when plague was raging in Moscow, was as large in her eyes as this flea (carrier of the plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis) and caused what John T. Alexander of the Kansas University History Department and author of Bubonic Plague in Early Modern Russia: Public Health and Urban Disaster, calls "Trepidation in Petersburg." Money, luggage, goods of all sorts coming from outlying areas were fumigated, wrappings were burned, people coming through the checkpoints surrounding the city obeyed strict rules or were quarantined. On the other hand Catherine worried about disruptions to the economy, paralysis of her government, and stumbling blocks for her armies. Whether it was these preventive measures, or the frosts of winter or a combination of many things, old "Piter" came through virtually unscathed. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://spencer.lib.ku.edu/using-the-library/library-use-and-policies">http://spencer.lib.ku.edu/using-the-library/library-use-and-policies</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context G135, pls. vol. 6