6 10 73 https://exhibits.lib.ku.edu/files/original/b820528d554b9aa1c354d9b8d40860e4.jpg afeb3119850c68f748c961ec86688830 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 901 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 Kuznet︠s︡kii Most. I︠u︡moristicheskii illiustrirovanny al’bom. D2143 Description An account of the resource How many Russians does it take to change a northern light? Whatever country we hail from, we all know from trying to fathom "foreign" movies that humor is often difficult to translate across cultural boundaries. Russian humor often fares better with Americans than most, however. Maybe it has something to do with our both being Great Imperialist Powers. Kuznetskii Most (The Kuznetsky Bridge), this copy from the library of Alexander Benois, was a small satirical magazine produced during a short un-frosted window of time when satire was relatively safe from censorship and restriction. 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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 Alʹmanakh gastronomov : sostav bli︠u︡d devi︠a︡nosta polnykh obi︠e︡dov : oznachennykh zapiskami (menu) russkimi i frant︠s︡uzskimi ... a ravno zagotovlenii︠a︡ vprok na zimu produktov po frant︠s︡uzskomu sposovu / sostavleno I.M. Radet︠s︡kim ...D790 Description An account of the resource As good as the real thing... When it comes to western eyes looking through frosty Russian dining-room windows like the little match girl, the eyes are never too big for stomachs wanting dishes we can find nowhere else. Even a potato tastes Russian in the form of vodka, the Russian national drink (except that it's no longer made with spuds). Caviar, however, is more difficult to come by. Over-harvesting has almost wiped out the sturgeon and other Russian species that provide us with the delicacy. But we're happy to say that all is not lost, because those enterprising cooks in Leningrad a decade ago came up with a synthetic substitute for caviar and fish roe that they say, "is every bit as good as the real thing, except for the taste." A hungry student (and aren't they all hungry?) could translate some of these recipes, modifying the list of ingredients for what's available in western groceries (the calf's head looks a little daunting, but in the Mid-West they ought to be plentiful), try them out in KU's Russia House (if it still existed) and make them available to local chefs. Students, don't perish, publish! The world needs another Russian cookbook. Although we could find out nothing about Radetski himself, the British Museum Catalog lists an 1852 edition of this mouth-watering cookbook. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1852 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 D790 https://exhibits.lib.ku.edu/files/original/335747b90201faaab5ee2d76d146195c.jpg 888b803a27783a66f6c00d28216a79dd 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 560 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 Scenes in Russia describing the manners, customs, diversions, modes of traveling, &c. Of the inhabitants of that country. London: printed for J. And E. Wallis, 1814. Children A933 Description An account of the resource St. Petersburg High... The only image of St. P. more plentiful in western books about 19th century Russia than the bronze horseman, is the ice hill, or "flying mountain," a peculiarly Russian entertainment that may have something to do with the fact that Petersburgers are flatlanders. Paris, Rome, Athens, and Lawrence have their high points, hogbacks, and hills, but at no point on the delta on which Peter built his city is there a spot over thirty feet above sea- level. Of all the ailments that have plagued that city – typhoid fever, typhus, cholera, giardia, influenza, malaria, diphtheria, syphilis, smallpox, and the common cold – altitude sickness has not been one of them, and actually the hill provides some relief from high barometric pressure if not from a queasy stomach. This contraption seems to be a combination of ski-jump and roller coaster: each person climbs into a small 4-wheeled shallow sided box at the top of a platform and careens downhill on a track. Sometimes ridges (moguls?) are added to increase velocity coming down enough to send them up the other side. When the River Neva is frozen the flying mountains are erected on the ice. 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 A933 https://exhibits.lib.ku.edu/files/original/5ba5cff29acb6d26e1e638b58238d05b.jpg 23764232f2ae70f0738df5830d16ddad 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 552 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 August Wilhelm Tappe (died 1830). Neue theoretisch-praktische russische Sprachlehre für Deutsche mit vielen Beispielen. Riga, Leipzig: bei Deubner und Treuy; Meinshausen und Hartknoch, 1819. C11619 Description An account of the resource Do Mind Your Grammar... The numbers of auslanders in St. Petersburg in the 18th century and later certainly fluctuated a great deal but there's little doubt that the Germans and French, followed closely by the English, were the dominant species. In addition to the great numbers of scientists and naturalists who flooded Russian universities as faculty and who led expeditions, there was an ever-growing crowd of visitors and tourists who authored on-site accounts. And any touristy "in" place spawns dictionaries and grammars galore – better or worse in quality. Lomonosov's Russian Grammar, 1757, was the first truly scholarly grammar of the Russian language. 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 C11619 https://exhibits.lib.ku.edu/files/original/3b2847361787628aee3b3f9be48dda17.jpg 2524172eefe7c9278f262de72bd81a14 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 1148 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 Augustus Bozzi Granville (1783-1872). St. Petersburg. A journal of travels to and from that capital. 2d ed., carefully revised and with considerable additions. London: H. Colburn 1829. 2 vols. C9755, v.1 Description An account of the resource The Double... The statue of The Bronze Horseman (= Peter the Great, the inspired hero, rash, speedy, proud, majestic, handsome, and yes, six and a half feet tall in real life!) symbolized a powerful upsurge in Russian energy (and the horse and his rider are pointed westward). Indeed it is the subject of many a frontispiece in our St. Petersburg travel literature, and is immortalized in Pushkin's poem, "The Bronze Horseman." French sculptor Étienne-Maurice-Falconet was commissioned by Catherine II on recommendation of Diderot to erect a memorial to Peter I. Falconet apparently had only unhappy experiences during his Russian years and never came back to see his masterpiece in place and ready to leap into the no longer frozen future. Falconet knew that Catharine abhorred allegory and he himself did not want a "Peter in Roman armor." On this matter he locked horns with Ivan Betskoi of the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts. In the end he had his way artistically, but we have seen no images amongst our holdings that do it justice for display. Obviously this is one statue that must be seen "in the flesh." The story of the hauling from Finland of the granite block on which this saddle-sore Peter and his horse are erected is as dramatic as the story of obtaining the rock and wooden underpinnings of St. P. herself in 1703. Both were the death of many a good Russian. Granville's bio reads like Candide: his Cornish mother's death-bed wish was that he take a British last name, but in fact he was an Italian patriot and political rabble-rouser, journalist, actor, and eventually physician. He first visited Petersburg in 1827, a second time in 1829 as physician, when he predicted Nicholas would die before July 1855. 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 C9755, vol. 1 https://exhibits.lib.ku.edu/files/original/b306c11f4f0ecf7e12647dc770d15981.jpg 3cae79882b6322d0b0b07c700c8f6a1d 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 471 Bit Depth 8 Channels 3 IPTC String caption:Untitled, Thu Mar 20, 2003, 9:29:33 AM, 8C, 4048x5510, (296+1472), 100%, straight 6 sto, 1/25 s, R67.5, G65.0, B90.6 �� IPTC Array a:1:{s:7:"caption";s:255:"Untitled, Thu Mar 20, 2003, 9:29:33 AM, 8C, 4048x5510, (296+1472), 100%, straight 6 sto, 1/25 s, R67.5, G65.0, B90.6 ��";} 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 Opisanīe Tibeta v nyni︠e︡shnem ego sostoi︠a︡nīi. S kartoi︠u︡ dorogi iz Chen-du do Khlassy. Perevod s kitaĭskago. Ma, Chieh, 1792. C8720 Description An account of the resource Ever The Twain Shall Meet. If one goes far enough west one will arrive at Petersburg's eastern back door, and by such machinations of the imagination we were able to include this beautiful aquatint of Tibet from a volume translated from the Chinese by Russian Sinologue Nikita Iakovlevich Bichurin, a.k.a the monk Iakinf (1777-1853). A Chuvash by nationality, Iakinf was born in the Kazan province but died in St. Petersburg. He was a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and it was he who set up the first Chinese language school in Russia in Kiakhta. Kazan became a major center for Oriental studies. In 1855, two years after his death, a faculty of oriental studies was set up at St. Petersburg University. We don't know what Iakinf thought of St. P. per se, but he had contact with Pushkin and other Petersburg intellectuals and was said to be well ahead of his western contemporaries in erudition in Sinology. All of his most important works and translations were published in that fair city. 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 C8720 https://exhibits.lib.ku.edu/files/original/d0a335367b8c608a07f811cc5c0b035f.jpg e6d675c67ed345f120dbfbb0c76f8c88 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 601 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 The Englishwoman in Russia: impressions of the society and manners of the Russians at home. By a Lady, ten years resident in that country. London: J. Murray, 1855 C5767 Description An account of the resource Mad Dogs and Englishmen... During Catherine's reign, the British had established themselves as a powerful minority in "Peterborough," as it was called by some of the Brits. They ran factories and were fully involved in the intellectual and social life of the city, as merchants, craftsmen, physicians, technicians, administrators, and bankers, and had positions of influence that benefited both the British and the Russians. In one sense they isolated themselves, living in their own self-sufficient communities, but they still took part in every aspect of the social and business goings-on of their new home city. The Department of Special Collections houses many accounts in English as well as in French, German, and other European languages, of western transplants and sojourners to the East. 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 C5767 https://exhibits.lib.ku.edu/files/original/d4a213af9f7368cfd11d4949e3b3e71e.jpg 8af079168b06f65bc959533b0fac4ab2 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 350 Height 489 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 Armée française et armée russe. Paris: A. Taride, 1886? C5407 Description An account of the resource Lambs to the Slaughter; or, I Love Your Hat... Both the French and the Germans were intrigued with Russian military uniforms and with good reason. But one would think the tassels and plumes and chinstraps would have slowed a guy down and made him want to scratch rather than fight. And imagine the combatants' manly gossip: "Tsk tsk, Yuri's frockcoat is full of moth holes and he doesn't know his skako from his kepi." When Peter I created a standing army early in the 18th century he introduced standard uniforms for each branch. These uniforms evolved through the decades with each change of the guard, most starting out quite complicated and later becoming simpler and more comfortable. But how much time and energy was spent just getting fitted for these elaborate get-ups? And since the purpose of the covering was to distinguish the enemy from the fellow-traveler, how much fashion schooling did a soldier need not to take out his brother with friendly fire? Indeed sometimes the designs backfired when the color of a coat in certain terrain exposed its wearer on the battlefield. Camouflage became the order of the day in the early 20th century, 1904 in Britain, 1906 in Russia, but not until 1908 in the USA. WWI saw the re-appearance of metal headgear: the steel helmet, but the Soviets didn't begin wearing it until the 1930s. As for hair, compare the powdered wigs of officers and the braids of infantrymen under Paul I (1796-1801) with the buzz cuts of today. In our collections is an Austrian publication with equally attractive plates, Die Russische Armee im Felde, Wien; 1888. 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 C5407 https://exhibits.lib.ku.edu/files/original/56a8b78b5e380977ee3760a9f438e138.jpg 487a348768d6c127be8d0c975bcbf032 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 553 Bit Depth 8 Channels 3 IPTC String caption:Untitled, Thu Mar 20, 2003, 9:41:31 AM, 8C, 3502x4312, (1066+1840), 100%, straight 6 sto, 1/25 s, R67.5, G65.0, B90.6 �� IPTC Array a:1:{s:7:"caption";s:255:"Untitled, Thu Mar 20, 2003, 9:41:31 AM, 8C, 3502x4312, (1066+1840), 100%, straight 6 sto, 1/25 s, R67.5, G65.0, B90.6 ��";} 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 Bīografīi︠a︡, pisʹma, i zami︠e︡tki iz zapisnoĭ knizhki F.M. Dostoevskago. Description An account of the resource A Gentle Soul... Before the Industrial Revolution St. Petersburg's visibly wealthy lived side by side with her hidden impoverished, often in the front and the back of the same building! This "illusion" of what the city represented, the pretense that there was no seamy underbelly, came to be grist for the mill of one of Russia's most revered and interesting writers. Fyodor Dostoyevsky is still relevant today on account of his understanding of the pathological mind and the complexities of the human soul and character. As Dostoyevsky matured he abandoned the atheism of the West, came to deplore capitalism and to believe that Russian Orthodoxy would become the spiritual leader of the world. His powerful narrative style is evident from his first published work, Poor Folk (1846), to his greatest literary achievement, often considered to be one of the finest novels ever written, The Brothers Karamazov (1879-1880). Published two years after his death, this was the first attempt at a biography of Dostoyevsky. 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 C1168 https://exhibits.lib.ku.edu/files/original/77be81acb490876097a7b25e652ce096.jpg 46cf1b3ef57960a1309a366d4b0d18b7 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 350 Height 514 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 Arthur Sketchley (1817-1882). Mrs. Brown on the Royal Russian Marriage. London: G. Routledge and sons, 1874. B1746 Description An account of the resource The News From Lake Ladoga... Arthur Sketchley is the pseudonym of English dramatist, novelist, and entertainer George Rose. His "Mrs. Brown" novels – 32 volumes in all – purport to be the slightly dotty ravings and rantings of an illiterate little old British lady of the lower middle-class who gossips about all the topics-of-the-day, and the Russian royals, of course, do not escape her watchful and highly prejudiced eye. In a News From Lake Woebegone style Sketchley would read parts of his Mrs. Brown monologues in public entertainments supposedly "all over the world," but we can find no evidence of his taking his shtick to the Borshcht Belt of Petersburg. He seems to have traveled mostly in English speaking countries: Australia, South Africa, India. In the absence of tomatoes in Russia – at least at this date – either for eating or for heaving at the entertainment, what would have been the missile of choice? Cabbages? Dumplings? 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 B1746