589 10 9668 https://exhibits.lib.ku.edu/files/original/2c64f393793b9b29f7378b5c448597fa.jpg 1fd03c18cba257b508b7aeda467ce59c 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 559 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 Joann Georg Korb. Diarium itineris in Moscoviam. Viennæ Austriæ: typis Leopoldi Voigt, 1700? Summerfield E225 Description An account of the resource Crime and Punishment ... Austria's attitude towards pre-Peterburgian but nevertheless Petrine Russia can be seen in this diary of the journey to Moscow of the Count of Guarient and his secretary to the mission, Johann Georg Korb. While Peter was on a tour of Europe near the end of the 1690s, the streltsy, or musketeers, revolted. This reactionary majority, judged to be anti-West, was subsequently tried and executed at Peter's order. Korb was an eyewitness to the bloodletting, and his account of the revenge so angered Peter that the latter complained to the court of Vienna and had all unsold copies of the Diarium destroyed. This copy once belonging to Prince Liechtenstein is one that escaped and survived. Korb had made other insulting observations: noting the huge gap between Russia's rich resources and the bad production record of its impoverished peasant farmers, he said, "The land is fertile enough, if it were not left in uncultivated sterility by the laziness of the people." For Peter, this had to have been the last straw: Russia WOULD have a window onto the West. Sankt Pieter Burkh was about to be founded. 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 Summerfield E225 https://exhibits.lib.ku.edu/files/original/9544e2b3b86fa63a57d152d5b26c03f2.jpg 1c829b07183da966cf645db3d7c6b342 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 570 Bit Depth 8 Channels 1 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 Stanislaw Siestrze´ncewicz-Bohusz (1731-1826). Recherches historiques sur l’origine des Sarmates, des Esclavons, et des Slaves St. Pétersbourg: de L’Imp. de Pluchart, 1812. B5119 Description An account of the resource The Grand Inquisitor... Peter the Great had no love for Catholicism, but in the early days of his reign he showed deference to the church. Unfortunately his reforms did little to improve conditions for Catholics, and under Catherine II their situation was made worse, even though she promulgated religious tolerance and proposed a national church independent of Rome. The three partitions of Poland brought thousands of Polish Catholics to Russia, including this ambitious Polish bishop, Siestrze´ncewicz-Bohusz, descended from a family of Lithuanian Calvinists. Historians are in agreement about the evil character of the man Catherine appointed to the administration of a new diocese (Mohileff) as Catholic Metropolitan of St. Petersburg and later Primate of Lithuania. He was without scruples or honorable motives, wanting only complete despotic power over the Catholic Church in Russia. It was said that during his long episcopate (1774-1826) he was the scourge of both rites. As for the subject of his book, some historians believe the original Slav stomping-grounds were the Pripet marshes (southern Belarus, northwestern Ukraine), whence the Slav tribes (the Sarmates, Esclavons, and Slaves of the title) migrated north across the Great Plain, northwest into Poland, and south into the Balkans. Sarmatia is the name the Romans gave to the steppes beyond the Carpathians and the Black Sea. Finding themselves caught between horse traders and Byzantine culture, without natural frontiers and constantly threatened by invasion, the people remained semi-barbarous, having no leisure for building cities or becoming politically savvy or choreographing ballets. Other historians contend that these southern drifters were a later group, that the original home of the Slavs was to be found not in the steppes, but farther north, in the forests, and that they were closely related to the Swedes, Angles and other northern peoples. 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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 The Life and Glorious Deeds of Peter the Great, Zahariah Orfelin, 1772. B10376 Description An account of the resource From the Land of the South Slavs... Published in Vienna, this calendar of the world's happenings from its beginnings uses the Russian civil alphabet, introduced to the Russians by Peter The Great. The author, Serbian school teacher, writer, historian, and civil servant Zahariah Orfelin used it to write mostly patriotic Serbian and religious poems in Russian Slavonic, even as he touted the Serbian vernacular as the preferred language for his country's literature. His Serbian nationalism – or rather his desire for Serbia's freedom from the Turks – did not deter him from singing Peter's praises in The life and glorious deeds of Peter The Great, in 1772. 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 B10376 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? 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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/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/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/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/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/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