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The Received Muscovite Concept of State, Faith and Society Aleksei Fëdorovich Zubov (1682-1751) engraving (1711) of the New Year’s Day Fireworks Display on the Neva River outside the Menshikov Palace at St Petersburg, 1 January 1712. Only one copy survives: Manuscript Library of the St Petersburg library of the Russian Academy of Sciences (http://www.rasl.ru/b_resours/specfonds/rkf.php Библиотека Академии Наука Отдел Рулописей) inventory 9: Алексей Федорович Зубов, 1682- 1751: Каталог Выставки, «Искусство» Ленинградское отд., 1988, 22-23 & Plate 12. An Enlightener’s Conception of In a world of malicious hatreds, Sovereign Мир на злобуненависти, Guardianship: Fireworks and an Illumination on Тhanks bе to God for the New Year’s Day in happiness that comes to you. St Petersburg, 1712 Богу благодарение за счастлибое прибытие. The Vault of Heaven calms itself with forces all its own. Небо съ сею утшило на сего всею силию. Emperor and yet ordinary Bombardier of Glory, Law-Maker, Navy-Builder, Empire- Destroyer [Sweden] and Empire-Builder: Crown, Spear, Baton and Aureole of Victory: The Official (and still rather Baroque) View in the mid-1730s of a rather-youthful Peter in his modest Preobrazhenskii Guards Uniform, with marshal’s baton (or telescope?) and wearing his Order of St Andrew-the-First-Called. The iconography in this posthumous portrait by A Venetian artist active in London and Paris, Jacopo Amigoni (1682-1752), commissioned by the Russian Court of Empress Anna Ivanovna (b.1693 , r. 1730-40), Peter’s half- brother’s daughter, was influenced by the contacts and agenda of Antiokh Dmitr’evich Kantemir (1708- 44), the poet and diplomat son of Prince Dmitri Cantemir (1673-1723) of Moldavia who had fled the defeat at Prut in 1711, with his wife, Princess Cassandra Cantacuzenos (1682-1713) and their children, among whom was 3-year-old Antiokh Dmitr’evich. Stefan Lemny, Les Cantemir: L’aventure européenne d’une famille princière au XVIIIe siècle, Paris, Éditions Complexe, 2009, pp. 242, 255, 291; http://www.arthermitage.org/Jacopo-Amigoni/Peter-I-with- Minerva.jpg or http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/08/hm88_0_1 _23_0.html. Pieter Pickaerdt (1668-1737)’s version of the Procession (as mentioned by Menshikov to Tsar Peter in a letter, 31 July 1711). [Pushkin] State Museum of Figurative Arts, Moscow (Государственный Музей Изобразительных Искусств им. А.С. Пушкин ГМИИ http://www.arts- museum.ru/ inventory ГР 21532 & ГР 6328. Алексей Федорович Зубов, 1682-1751: Каталог Выставки, «Искусство» Ленинградское отделение, 1988, 8, 22; Е.А.Тюхменева, “Триумфальные Врата в Москве по случаю Полтавской Победы”” in Полтава: К 300-летию Полтавского Сражения: Сборник статьей, Москва, Институт Российской Истории Российской Академии Наук, Кучково Поле, 2009, pp. 287-302 & plate 27 http://www.russianprints.ru/files/555_600.jpg & http://www.russianprints.ru/printmakers/p/picart_pieter/army_entering_moscow.shtml Second Variant Image (1711) by Aleksei Fёdorovich Zubov (1682-1751) ) of Peter’s entry into Moscow (21 December 1709) through six of the seven triumphal arches erected to celebrate the victory at Poltava (27 June 1709) Peter chose to march as a mere Lt-Colonel (под-полковник) of Preobrazhenskii bombardiers in the midst of his army. Search the Hermitage website under ‘Zubov’ http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/index.html © Hermitage, St Petersburg, or the [Pushkin] State Museum of Figurative Arts, Moscow (Государственный Музей Изобразительных Искусств им. А.С. Пушкин ГМИИ http://www.arts-museum.ru/ inventory ГР-6327 @ http://www.russianprints.ru/printmakers/z/zubov_alexey/army_entering_moscow.shtml ; Е.А.Тюхменева, “Триумфальные Врата в Москве по случаю Полтавской Победы” in Полтава: К 300-летию Полтавского Сражения: Сборник статьей, Москва, Институт Российской Истории Российской Академии Наук, Кучково Поле, 2009, pp. 287-302 & plate 26. A.D Menshikov’s Semënovskii Guardsmen Gate at his mansion in the van at Miasnitskii Street, near Lubianka Square Synod School Gate at G.D. Stroganov’s Nikol’skii Street, near Kazan Gate at Belyi Gorod Cathedral on Tverskaia Street Menshikov Tsar Peter Captive Swedish commanders, including Adam Löwenhaupt (1659-1719) and Carl Serpukhov Gate, and In uniform of Lt-Colonel Piper (1647-1716), Gamelton, Stackelberg, von Shlippenbach, Roos, and Gustav Creutz (1660-1728) thence captive in Tobol’sk in west Siberia till 1721-22. Moscow’s South Dolgorukii of Preobrazhenskii Artillery Preobrazhenskii Guardsmen in the rear The Mice burying the Cat Russian popular woodcut (lubok лyбок) largely purchased by people who loathed Peter’s reforms. This version of the much-copied image dates from 1766, and was purchased in a Moscow market by Jacob von Stählen. The woodcut originates from the late C17th or early C18th. http://www.nlr.ru/eng/coll/treasures/15.htm. Political Iconography (1) The Muscovite concept of State, Faith and Society Peter would have received (if he had stayed in the Kremlin, and if he cared to attend). Political Iconography (1) Old-New Orthodox Baroque? The Petrine Muscovite concept of State, Faith and Society as it was emerging around 1709-12. The Tsar processes, gives benediction, and distributes alms for the poor: at the close of a decade of civil war and foreign intervention, the new Tsar of a new dynasty, Mikhail Fëdorovich Romanov visits Ipat’evskii Monastery in Kostroma in 14 March 1613. C19th re-drawn copy of a 1672 MS Книги об избрании на царство на высочайший престол великого российского царя Великого Государя и Великого Князя Михайла Федоровича всея великия России Самодержца http://большекулачье.рф/upload/iblock/7dc/7dc01e1c2b8b574bf04b6bad9d01054a.png. Simon Fëdorovich Ushakov (1626-86) as an icon painter following convention. “The Vladimir Mother of God”, painted in 1662 in the icon workshops of the Armoury (Оружейная Палата), the icon painting workshop of which he headed 1664-86. The Slavonic inscription (added later!) says “In the year 7170 [1662] the painter and scribe Simon son of Fedor Ushakov at the Monastery of the Presentation of Christ painted this icon after the Wonder-Working Holy Mother of God of Vladimir, at the behest of Abbot Dionisii of that monastery”. The pose suggests the tenderness of mercy (Byzantine Greek έλεοςα eleousa or умиление in Russian). The icon refers to a C12th icon (Богоматери Владимирской) now in the Patriarch’s “Cathedral of the Dormition of the Holy Virgin (Uspenskii Sobor Успенский Собор)” in the Moscow Kremlin. Ushakov worked at the Armoury Workshops between 1648 and 1664 painting and designing religious and court objects. He was one of the first to be influenced by European traditions of portraiture. He had a gentry background and his patron was the boyar Bogdan Khitrovo. Icon originally in Trinity Church Nikitnik (http://www.nikitniki.ru/) in Kitaigorod in old Moscow, now in State Russian Museum, St Petersburg. (http://www.rusmuseum.ru/eng/home/), inventory ДПЖ 2100, presented as catalogue item 84 in The Gates of Mystery: The Art of Holy Russia, Cambridge, The Lutterworth Press, n.d. The much-venerated icon influencing Simon Ushakov. C12th icon (The Vladimir Mother of God Богоматери Владимирской) made in Constantinople and once in the Patriarch’s “Cathedral of the Dormition of the Holy Virgin (Uspenskii Sobor Успенский Собор)” in the Moscow Kremlin. Before Moscow, it was once at Vyshegorod near Kiev (1130s), then at Vladimir (1155). It was long revered in Moscow, mostly in 1395 the Muscovite Grand Prince Vasilii I Dmitr’evich thought it deterred Tamberlane from attacking Moscow. Tamberlane instead attacked the Lithuanian-Rus’. State Tret’iakov Gallery, Moscow, inventory 2216 http://www.tretyakovgallery.ru/ru/collection/_show/i mage/_id/2216; http://all-photo.ru/icon/photos/6807-0.jpg Simon Fëdorovich Ushakov’s icon (obraz образ) “Tree of the Russian State (In Praise of Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God” 1668 (Древо государства Московского (Похвала Богоматери Владимирской) http://www.tretyakovgallery.ru/ru/collection/_show/image/_id/2610 now in the State Tret’iakov Gallery, Moscow item 28598, but originally in Trinity Church at Nikitniki, in Kitaigorod, off Varvarka street in Moscow. Lindsey Hughes, “Simon Ushakov’s Icon ‘The Tree of the Muscovite State’ Revisited”, Forschungen zur osteuopaïschen Geschichte, 58 (2001) 223-34; Engelina Smirnova, “Simon Ushakov, ‘Historicism’ and ‘Byzantinism’...” in Religion and Culture in Early Modern Russia and Ukraine, eds Samuel H Baron et al., Dekalb, IL, Northern Illinois University Press, 1997, 169-83. Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich and his first Tsarina, Mariia Il’inichna Milovskaia, stand at the base of the painting in realistic and perspectival portraits on the Kremlin walls, but the agenda here is to evoke a deeper Muscovite notion of the proximity of heaven and earth, church and state, united by the protection of the C11th icon the Vladimir Mother of God. As in a domed church, so too in the garden of state, the Mother of God unites heaven and earth and protects all. The tsar and his family (from below) acknowledge the C14th founders of Russian dynasty and church, respectively Ivan I Daniilovich Khalita (who enriched the state) and Metropolitan Peter (who brought the bishopric to Moscow), here seen by the artist to have planted (nasazhdat’ насаждать) the thorn-less rose and abundant vine which the artist sees as flourishing so much in the grand Byzantine traditions of Orthodox piety. All the great Grand Princes (even Tsarevich Dmitri) and churchmen are then painted and named, and Christ (from above) quotes Revelation 3.5 & 2.10: “He that ovecometh shall be arrayed in white garments” & “Be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee the crown of life.” A Sacral Tsars and Church Hierarchs Holy Fools (Юродивые), Saintly Landscape: founding monks and a Saint Prince Planting (nasazhdat’ Tsarevich Dmitri Ivanovich (d. 1591, Ivan Bol’shoi Kolpak supposedly martyred by Ivan IV) насаждать) the Tree of Life, in Heaven and Tsar Fëdor I Ivanovich (b. 1557, r. Vasilii the Blessed (Blazhënnyi on Earth. 1584-98) Блажëнный), who inspired St Basil’s in Red Square Genesis 2.8 “And the Lord planted Tsar Mikhail Fëdorovich? (b.
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