Experiment 25 (2019) xi-xxvi brill.com/expt List of Illustrations Front cover: Church of the Savior Not Made by Human Hands, 1881-82, detail, Federal State Cultural Establishment Artistic and Literary Museum-Reserve Abramtsevo, Russia. Photo © 2019 Ludmila Piters-Hofmann Back cover: Peacock tile, c. 1900, detail, Abramtsevo Ceramics Workshop, after a design by Mikhail Vrubel, majolica, 40 × 33.2 × 4.7 cm, Federal State Cultural Establishment Artistic and Literary Museum-Reserve Abramtsevo, Russia. Photo © 2019 Maria Taroutina Editors’ Preface 1 Church of the Savior Not Made by Human Hands, 1881-82, forest view, Federal State Cultural Establishment Artistic and Literary Museum-Reserve Abramt- sevo, Russia. Photo © 2019 Louise Hardiman xxvii 2 Crosses in the churchyard, Federal State Cultural Establishment Artistic and Literary Museum-Reserve Abramtsevo, Russia. Photo © 2019 Louise Hardi- man xxviii 3 Path to the Manor House, Federal State Cultural Establishment Artistic and Literary Museum-Reserve Abramtsevo, Russia. Photo © 2019 Ludmila Piters- Hofmann xxix 4 Distaffs, Abramtsevo Folk Art Collection, Federal State Cultural Establishment Artistic and Literary Museum-Reserve Abramtsevo, Russia. Photo © 2019 Lud- mila Piters-Hofmann xxxi “The Spirit of Old Aksakov … Added to the Charm”: Early Extracts from “The Chronicle of the Abramtsevo Estate” 1 First page of the Letopis [Chronicle], Savva Mamontov, ink on paper, 40 × 26 cm, KP 19, ruk. 36, l. 1, Federal State Cultural Establishment Artistic and Literary Museum-Reserve Abramtsevo, Russia. Photo © Federal State Cultural Establish- ment Artistic and Literary Museum-Reserve Abramtsevo 3 2 Detail of a page from the Letopis [Chronicle] with a sketch of the Abramtsevo site, Savva Mamontov, ink on paper, 40 × 26 cm, KP 19, ruk. 36, l. 2, Federal State © koninklijke brill nv, leiden, 2019 | doi:10.1163/2211730X-12341351Downloaded from Brill.com09/24/2021 12:30:42PM via free access xii List of Illustrations Cultural Establishment Artistic and Literary Museum-Reserve Abramtsevo, Russia. Photo © Federal State Cultural Establishment Artistic and Literary Mu- seum-Reserve Abramtsevo 4 3 Natalia V. Polenova, On the balcony at Abramtsevo [seated around the table from left to right: A.S. Mamontov, I.S. Ostroukhov, A.S. Mamontova, E.G. Ma- montova, V.S. Mamontova, N.V. Polenova, E.D. Polenova, K.D. Artsybushev, V.A. Serov; standing on left: S.I. Mamontov], photograph, date unknown, repro- duced in Natalia V. Polenova, Abramtsevo. Vospominaniia (Moscow: Izd. M. i S. Sabashnikov, 1922), 79 5 4 Natalia V. Polenova, The Manor House from the Khotkovo Road, photograph, date unknown, reproduced in Natalia V. Polenova, Abramtsevo. Vospominaniia (Moscow: Izd. M. i S. Sabashnikov, 1922), 9 6 5 Natalia V. Polenova, The Manor House from the garden side, photograph, date unknown, reproduced in Natalia V. Polenova, Abramtsevo. Vospominaniia (Moscow: Izd. M. i S. Sabashnikov, 1922), 19 8 6 Natalia V. Polenova, The carpentry workshop, photograph, date unknown, re- produced in Natalia V. Polenova, Abramtsevo. Vospominaniia (Moscow: Izd. M. i S. Sabashnikov, 1922), 68 12 7 Natalia V. Polenova, At work in the carpentry workshop, photograph, date un- known, reproduced in Natalia V. Polenova, Abramtsevo. Vospominaniia (Mos- cow: Izd. M. i S. Sabashnikov, 1922), 69 13 8 Natalia V. Polenova, The bathhouse designed by the architect Ropett [sic], pho- tograph, date unknown, reproduced in Natalia V. Polenova, Abramtsevo. Vospo- minaniia (Moscow: Izd. M. i S. Sabashnikov, 1922), 26 14 9 Natalia V. Polenova, E.G. Mamontova with the children in the little gazebo hut [izbushka-besedka, or “Hut on Chicken Legs”] after a design by V.M. Vasnetsov, photograph, date unknown, reproduced in Natalia V. Polenova, Abramtsevo. Vospominaniia (Moscow: Izd. M. i S. Sabashnikov, 1922), 45 16 10 Natalia V. Polenova, The Abramtsevo church, photograph, date unknown, re- produced in Natalia V. Polenova, Abramtsevo. Vospominaniia (Moscow: Izd. M. i S. Sabashnikov, 1922), 43 17 Remembering Savva Ivanovich Mamontov 1 Savva Ivanovich Mamontov at Butyrki, photograph, c. 1910-12, author unknown, private collection, reproduced in Eleonora Paston, Abramtsevo: Iskusstvo i zhizn’ (Moscow: Iskusstvo, 2003), 282 20 2 Ilia Repin, Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov, 1880, sketch, charcoal on paper, 36.9 × 31.6 cm, Federal State Cultural Establishment Artistic and Literary ExperimentDownloaded 25from (2019) Brill.com09/24/2021 xi-xxvi 12:30:42PM via free access List of Illustrations xiii Museum-Reserve Abramtsevo, Russia, reproduced in Abramtsevo: Khudozhest- vennyi kruzhok, zhivopis’, grafika, skul’ptura, teatr, masterskie, ed. Grigorii Sternin (Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1988), 96 26 “A Special Place”: On the Significance of Abramtsevo 1 The Manor House from the garden side, Federal State Cultural Establishment Artistic and Literary Museum-Reserve Abramtsevo, Russia. Photo © 2019 Maria Taroutina 29 2 Display of Russian folk art on the second floor of the Manor House, Federal State Cultural Establishment Artistic and Literary Museum-Reserve Abramt- sevo, Russia. Photo © 2019 Ludmila Piters-Hofmann 29 3 Installation view of the Abramtsevo Ceramic Collection, Federal State Cultural Establishment Artistic and Literary Museum-Reserve Abramtsevo, Russia. Photo © 2019 Ludmila Piters-Hofmann 30 4 Installation view of costumes and stage designs in the special exhibition “Dve Snegurochki” [The Two Snow Maidens] (December 21, 2018-March 10, 2019), Federal State Cultural Establishment Artistic and Literary Museum-Reserve Abramtsevo, Russia. Photo © 2019 Ludmila Piters-Hofmann 31 The “Dilettantism” of Savva Mamontov in Russian Art 1 Dining room, Savva Mamontov’s Moscow Mansion, 1880s, Federal State Cul- tural Establishment Artistic and Literary Museum-Reserve Abramtsevo, Russia. Photo © Federal State Cultural Establishment Artistic and Literary Museum- Reserve Abramtsevo 36 2 Study, Savva Mamontov’s Moscow Mansion, 1880s [left to right: Ilia Repin, Vasi- lii Surikov, Savva Mamontov, Konstantin Korovin, Valentin Serov, Mark Antokol- skii], Federal State Cultural Establishment Artistic and Literary Museum- Reserve Abramtsevo, Russia. Photo © Federal State Cultural Establishment Artistic and Literary Museum-Reserve Abramtsevo 37 3 Vasilii Polenov, Savva Mamontov and Petr Spiro at the Piano, 1882, oil on canvas, 50.5 × 40.5 cm, Federal State Cultural Establishment Artistic and Literary Muse- um-Reserve Abramtsevo, Russia. Photo © Federal State Cultural Establishment Artistic and Literary Museum-Reserve Abramtsevo 39 4 Savva Mamontov, Portrait of Ivan Mamontov, 1873, bronze-tinted plaster cast, 70 × 29.5 × 37 cm, Federal State Cultural Establishment Artistic and Literary Experiment 25 (2019) xi-xxvi Downloaded from Brill.com09/24/2021 12:30:42PM via free access xiv List of Illustrations Museum-Reserve Abramtsevo, Russia. Photo © Federal State Cultural Establish- ment Artistic and Literary Museum-Reserve Abramtsevo 40 5 Park at the Abramtsevo Estate [left to right: Konstantin Artsybushev, Andrei Mamontov, Viktor Vasnetsov, Tatiana Vasnetsova, Nikolai Kukin, Petr Spiro, Shura Mamontova, Savva Mamontov, Ivan Shtrom, Ilia Ostroukhov, Elizaveta Mamontova, Mark Antokolskii, V.I. Olkhovskaia; standing: Ippolit Shpazhin- skii], 1883, Federal State Cultural Establishment Artistic and Literary Museum- Reserve Abramtsevo, Russia. Photo © Federal State Cultural Establishment Artistic and Literary Museum-Reserve Abramtsevo 44 6 Aleksandra Mamontova and Savva Mamontov in the study of the house in Bu- tyrki, 1910s, Federal State Cultural Establishment Artistic and Literary Museum- Reserve Abramtsevo, Russia. Photo © Federal State Cultural Establishment Artistic and Literary Museum-Reserve Abramtsevo 47 7 Savva Mamontov in the house in Butyrki, early 1900s, Federal State Cultural Establishment Artistic and Literary Museum-Reserve Abramtsevo, Russia. Photo © Federal State Cultural Establishment Artistic and Literary Museum- Reserve Abramtsevo 51 The Poetics and Aesthetics of Otherness: Orientalism and Identity at Abramtsevo 1 Photograph of Savva Mamontov in a Sultan’s turban, 1910, 5.7 × 8.5 cm, Federal State Cultural Establishment Artistic and Literary Museum-Reserve Abramt- sevo, Russia. Photo © Federal State Cultural Establishment Artistic and Literary Museum-Reserve Abramtsevo 57 2 Valentin Serov, Nude Model, 1882, watercolor on paper, 29.8 × 34.5 cm, Federal State Cultural Establishment Artistic and Literary Museum-Reserve, Russia. Photo © Federal State Cultural Establishment Artistic and Literary Museum- Reserve Abramtsevo 59 3 Photograph of a scene from the play Black Turban, 1880s, Russian State Archive of Literature and Art (RGALI), Moscow. Photo © RGALI 61 4 Viktor Vasnetsov, Poster for the play Black Turban, 1884, ink, watercolor, gouache, and pencil on paper, 76 × 55 cm. Federal State Cultural Establishment Artistic and Literary Museum-Reserve Abramtsevo, Russia. Photo © Federal State Cultural Establishment Artistic and Literary Museum-Reserve Abramt- sevo 62 5 Viktor Vasnetsov, Underwater Kingdom, 1884, study for the backdrop of Alek- sandr Dargomyzhskii’s opera Rusalka [The Mermaid], Mamontov’s Private ExperimentDownloaded 25from (2019) Brill.com09/24/2021 xi-xxvi 12:30:42PM via free access List of Illustrations xv Opera, watercolor on paper, 53.5 × 35 cm, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. Photo © Bridgeman Images 63 6 Mikhail Vrubel, Indian Tale, undated, watercolor on paper, 24.7 × 10.5 cm, Vladi- mir Dal Russian State Literary Museum, Moscow. Photo © Vladimir Dal Russian