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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Volkov, Solomon.     Subjects     Romanov, House of -- History.     Romanov, House of -- Art patronage.     Authors, Russian -- Biography.     Russian literature -- History and criticism.     Artists -- Russia -- Biography.     Composers -- Russia -- Biography.     Arts, Russian -- History.     Russia -- Kings and rulers -- Biography.     Russia -- Intellectual life.     Russia -- History -- 1613-1917.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Volkov, Solomon.       by title:      Romanov riches : Rus...         MARC Display

Romanov riches : Russian writers and artists under the tsars / Solomon Volkov ; translated from the Russian by Antonina W. Bouis. by Volkov, Solomon. New York : Knopf, 2011. Subjects Romanov, House of -- History.   Romanov, House of -- Art patronage.   Authors, Russian -- Biography.   Russian literature -- History and criticism.   Artists -- Russia -- Biography.   Composers -- Russia -- Biography.   Arts, Russian -- History.   Russia -- Kings and rulers -- Biography.   Russia -- Intellectual life.   Russia -- History -- 1613-1917. ISBN:  0307270637 (hbk.) : 9780307270634 Description:  xi, 285 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. Edition:  1st ed. Contents:  The first Romanovs : from Tsar Mikhail to Peter I -- Kantemir, Lomonosov, and Barkov -- Catherine the Great and the culture of her era -- Paul I and Alexander I; Karamzin and Zhukovsky -- Alexander I, Zhukovsky, and young Pushkin -- Nicholas I and Pushkin -- Lermontov and Briullov -- Gogol, Ivanov, Tyutchev and the end of the Nicholas I era -- Alexander II, Tolstoy, Turgenev, and Dostoevsky -- Herzen, Tolstoy, and the women's issue -- Tchaikovsky and homosexuality in imperial Russia -- Dostoevsky and the Romanovs -- Alexander III, the Wanderers, and Mussorgsky -- Nicholas II and Lenin as art connoisseurs. Requests:  0 Summary:  "In a sweeping cultural history of Russia from the rise of the house of Romanov in 1613 to its downfall at the hands of the Bolsheviks in 1917, Solomon Volkov effortlessly unwinds the twisted relationship between art and the royal family.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Art, Music & Recreation 700.94709 Vo Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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