WORD AND IMAGE IN RUSSIAN HISTORY ESSAYS IN HONOR OF GARY MARKER Photo courtesy of Media Services, Stony Brook University WORD AND IMAGE IN RUSSIAN HISTORY ESSAYS IN HONOR OF GARY MARKER EDITED BY MARIA DI SALVO, DANIEL H. KAISER, AND VALERIE A. KIVELSON Boston 2015 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. Copyright © 2015 Academic Studies Press All rights reserved ISBN 978-1-61811-458-7 (hardback) ISBN 978-1-61811-460-0 (electronic) Cover design by Ivan Grave Published by Academic Studies Press in 2015 28 Montfern Avenue Brighton, MA 02135, USA [email protected] www. academicstudiespress.com Effective December 12th, 2017, this book will be subject to a CC-BY-NC license. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. 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Published by Academic Studies Press 28 Montfern Avenue Brighton, MA 02135, USA [email protected] www.academicstudiespress.com Contents Acknowledgments .............................................................................viii List of Illustrations ..............................................................................ix Introduction .......................................................................................xi Tabula Gratulatoria ...........................................................................xvi A Biographical Essay: The Making of the Historian ..................................1 Daniel H. Kaiser (Grinnell College) From Publishing to Prokopovich: Gary Marker’s Scholarly Contributions ...................................................................... 17 Valerie A. Kivelson (University of Michigan) Word Once Again on Whether Byzantine Law Was Applied to the Administration of the Law in Medieval Rus’ ................................. 33 Viktor Zhivov (University of California, Berkeley and Moscow State University) vi Contents About Peter the Great’s Ship Predestinatsiia ..............................................43 Maria Di Salvo (University of Milan) Eighteenth-Century Botanical Literature and the Origins of an Elite Russian Gardening Community................................. 55 Christine Ruane (University of Tulsa) Catherine’s Liberation of the Greeks: High-Minded Discourse and Everyday Realities ......................................................... 71 Elena Smilianskaia (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow) A Proletarian Encyclopédie .......................................................................90 Daniela Steila (University of Turin) Image The Parsuna of Gavrila Fetiev: Can a Picture Speak? .............................118 Daniel H. Kaiser (Grinnell College) Tracking the Travels of Adam Olearius .................................................133 Nancy S. Kollmann (Stanford University) Catherine the Great and the Art of Collecting: Acquiring the Paintings that Founded the Hermitage .............................147 Cynthia Hyla Whittaker (Baruch College and Graduate Center, City University of New York) Rozanov’s Peter ................................................................................172 Simon Dixon (University College London) Gender The Question of Women in Power in the Eighteenth Century .................191 E. V. Anisimov (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Saint Petersburg) Businesswomen in Eighteenth-Century Russian Provincial Towns .......... 206 Alexander Kamenskii (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow) Contents vii Religion Dialogue and Conflict in the Ostroh Principality: The Year 1636 ............ 222 Giovanna Brogi Bercoff (University of Milan) Connecting the Dots: Jewish Mysticism, Ritual Murder, and the Trial of Mendel Beilis .............................................................238 Robert Weinberg (Swarthmore College) Forms of Literacy Education and the East: The Omsk Asiatic School ................................253 Janet M. Hartley (London School of Economics and Political Science) What Should One Teach? A New Approach to Russian Childhood Education as Reflected in Manuscripts from the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century ....................................... 269 Ol’ga Kosheleva (Institute of General History, Russian Academy of Science) The Education of Parish Clergy in the Kyiv Eparchy in the 1770s ........... 296 Maksym Iaremenko (National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy) Civil Society and Politics “The Opinion of One Ukrainian Landowner”: V. N. Karazin, Alexander I, and Changing Russia .................................315 Patrick O’Meara (Durham University) The Imperial Russian Noble Elite and Westernization: The Family Eizen-fon-Shvartsenberg .................................................. 336 Roger Bartlett (School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London) “Only the principle of public life and the full rights of citizenship”: The Russian Technical Society, the Public Sphere, and the Revolution of 1905 .................................................... 359 Joseph Bradley (University of Tulsa) Publications of Gary Marker .............................................................382 Comp. Daniel H. Kaiser Acknowledgements ublication of this book was made possible by gifts from the College Pof Arts and Sciences at Stony Brook University with the generous support of former Dean Nancy Squires, and from the Stony Brook University Department of History—thankfully without the knowledge of the present chair, Gary Marker. Special thanks to Margarita Zhivova for her guidance in navigating fonts, and to Joseph Bradley, Olga Greco, and Maria Ispolnova for translation assistance; thanks, too, to the University of Michigan for additional support. We also owe thanks to Media Services, Stony Brook University; Elena Smilianskaia; the Vologda State Historico-Architectural and Art Museum; Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection; the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts, and New York Public Library for images reproduced here. Special thanks to Ann Brody who supplied a number of photo- graphs we could not otherwise have obtained. Finally, many thanks to De Dudley who formatted and prepared the final manuscript. List of Illustrations Frontispiece: Photo of Gary Marker ............................................ ii Figure 1. Young Gary (ca. 1955). ..................................................3 Figure 2. Gary at Friends Select (1965). ........................................4 Figure 3. Gary at University of Pennsylvania (1969). ...................... 6 Figure 4. Gary and Ann’s Wedding (1970). ................................... 6 Figure 5. IREX group at Medeo Skating Rink, Alma Ata (1975). ......8 Figure 6. Marker Family at Josh’s Bar Mitzvah (1991). .................. 12 Figure 7. “Crataegus Cersi foliis, floribus magnico,” plate XXXI, Iogann Amman, Stirpium rariorum in Imperio Rutheno sponte provenientium icones et descriptiones (Petropolii: Ex Typografia Academiae Scientarum, 1739), 195-96. .........................................59 Figure 8. “Pinus Cembra Kedr sibirskii” (Siberian Cedar), plate ii, P. S. Pallas, Flora Rossica (Petropolii, 1774), vol. 1. ............62 Figure 9. Pallas, Katalog rasteniiam nakhodiashchimsia v Moskve v sadu. .Prokopiia Akinfievicha Demidova (St. Petersburg, 1781), 1. ............................................................64 Figure 10. Petr Gofman, “Glorioso superba Tshcheslavitsa velichavaia (Flame Lilly),” unpublished print. ...........66 Figure 11. Russian coat of arms mounted above northern portal, Church of St. Catherine, Kampos, Greece. ....................... 72 x List of Illustrations Figure 12. Vologda Gost’ G. M. Fetiev, ca. 1684 (VOKM 2797). ....120 Figure 13. “Peasants” attributed to Adam Olearius, Travels. .........141 Figure 14. Aleksei Antropov, Portrait of Catherine II. ....................150 Figure 15. Grand Duchess Maria Fedorovna, Catherine II as Minerva (engraved cameo). ...................................151 Figure 16. Giacomo Quarenghi, Catherine’s Theatre in the Hermitage. ....................................................................152 Figure 17. Academy of Fine Arts (Photograph) ............................153 Figure 18. Stefano Torelli, Catherine II as Patroness of the Arts. .......155 Figure 19. Franz Hals, Young Man with a Glove. ..........................158 Figure 20. Rembrandt, Return of the Prodigal Son.........................159 Figure 21. Sir Joshua Reynolds, The Infant Hercules Slaying Serpents ...............................................................161 Figure 22. Quarenghi, The Loggia, Hermitage ............................ 162 Figure 23. Saloon of Houghton Hall ......................................... 166 Figure 24. Depiction of Wounds on the Body of Andrei Iushchinskii ................................................................ 239 Figure 25. Top: Wounds Connected