Tracing the Turkestan Series - Vasily Vereshchagin's Representations of Late-19th-century Central Asia

Tracing the Turkestan Series - Vasily Vereshchagin's Representations of Late-19th-century Central Asia
Title Tracing the Turkestan Series - Vasily Vereshchagin's Representations of Late-19th-century Central Asia PDF eBook
Author Heather S. Sonntag
Publisher
Pages 292
Release 2003
Genre
ISBN

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Photographing, Exploring and Exhibiting Russian Turkestan

Photographing, Exploring and Exhibiting Russian Turkestan
Title Photographing, Exploring and Exhibiting Russian Turkestan PDF eBook
Author Inessa Kouteinikova
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 222
Release 2022-12-30
Genre Photography
ISBN 1000824950

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This book illuminates the crucial role photography played from the very beginning of the Russian colonial presence in Central Asia and its entanglement with the orientalist legacy that followed. Inessa Kouteinikova examines these under-studied materials while also addressing the photographic market and reception of photography in the Russian Empire, the position of the popular press, the place of public exhibitions and emergence of the first ethnographic museums that took pace from Moscow to Tashkent during the time of the Russian conquest. This book embraces the dominant mode for representing the new colonial territories in the mid-late-19th-century Russia, by outlining the technical, commercial and artistic milieus during the Golden Age of Russian orientalism. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, history of photography and Russian studies.

The Complete Short Novels of Anton Chekhov

The Complete Short Novels of Anton Chekhov
Title The Complete Short Novels of Anton Chekhov PDF eBook
Author Anton Chekhov
Publisher Everyman's Library
Pages 594
Release 2004-08-03
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1400040493

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Anton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels–here brought together in one volume for the first time, in a masterly new translation by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. The Steppe—the most lyrical of the five—is an account of a nine-year-old boy’s frightening journey by wagon train across the steppe of southern Russia. The Duel sets two decadent figures—a fanatical rationalist and a man of literary sensibility—on a collision course that ends in a series of surprising reversals. In The Story of an Unknown Man, a political radical spying on an important official by serving as valet to his son gradually discovers that his own terminal illness has changed his long-held priorities in startling ways. Three Years recounts a complex series of ironies in the personal life of a rich but passive Moscow merchant. In My Life, a man renounces wealth and social position for a life of manual labor. The resulting conflict between the moral simplicity of his ideals and the complex realities of human nature culminates in a brief apocalyptic vision that is unique in Chekhov’s work.

Vassili Verestchagin, Painter, Soldier, Traveler

Vassili Verestchagin, Painter, Soldier, Traveler
Title Vassili Verestchagin, Painter, Soldier, Traveler PDF eBook
Author Vasiliĭ Vasilʹevich Vereshchagin
Publisher
Pages 360
Release 1887
Genre Artists
ISBN

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The Complete Short Novels

The Complete Short Novels
Title The Complete Short Novels PDF eBook
Author Anton Chekhov
Publisher Vintage
Pages 578
Release 2007-12-18
Genre Fiction
ISBN 030742829X

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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Aanton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels–here brought together in one volume for the first time, in a masterly new translation by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. The Steppe–the most lyrical of the five–is an account of a nine-year-old boy’s frightening journey by wagon train across the steppe of southern Russia. The Duel sets two decadent figures–a fanatical rationalist and a man of literary sensibility–on a collision course that ends in a series of surprising reversals. In The Story of an Unknown Man, a political radical spying on an important official by serving as valet to his son gradually discovers that his own terminal illness has changed his long-held priorities in startling ways. Three Years recounts a complex series of ironies in the personal life of a rich but passive Moscow merchant. In My Life, a man renounces wealth and social position for a life of manual labor. The resulting conflict between the moral simplicity of his ideals and the complex realities of human nature culminates in a brief apocalyptic vision that is unique in Chekhov’s work.

The Duel

The Duel
Title The Duel PDF eBook
Author Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher Vintage
Pages 146
Release 2010
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0307742873

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Includes a new forward by the screenwriter Mary Bing In Anton Chekhov's The Duel the escalating animosity between two men with opposed philosophies of life is played out against the backdrop of a seedy resort on the Black Sea coast. Laevsky is a dissipated romantic given to gambling and flirtation; he has run off with another man's wife, the beautiful but vapid Nadya, and now finds himself tiring of her. The scientist von Koren is contemptuous of Laevsky; as a fanatical devotee of Darwin, von Koren believes the other man to be unworthy of survival and is further enraged by his treatment of Nadya. As the confrontation between the two becomes increasingly heated, it leads to a duel that is as comically inadvertent as it is inevitable. Masterfully translated by the award-winnning Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, The Duel is one of the most subtle examples of Chekhov's narrative art.

The Duel (Movie Tie-in Edition)

The Duel (Movie Tie-in Edition)
Title The Duel (Movie Tie-in Edition) PDF eBook
Author Anton Chekhov
Publisher Vintage
Pages 146
Release 2010-08-10
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0307742962

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Includes a new forward by the screenwriter Mary Bing In Anton Chekhov’s The Duel the escalating animosity between two men with opposed philosophies of life is played out against the backdrop of a seedy resort on the Black Sea coast. Laevsky is a dissipated romantic given to gambling and flirtation; he has run off with another man’s wife, the beautiful but vapid Nadya, and now finds himself tiring of her. The scientist von Koren is contemptuous of Laevsky; as a fanatical devotee of Darwin, von Koren believes the other man to be unworthy of survival and is further enraged by his treatment of Nadya. As the confrontation between the two becomes increasingly heated, it leads to a duel that is as comically inadvertent as it is inevitable. Masterfully translated by the award-winnning Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, The Duel is one of the most subtle examples of Chekhov’s narrative art.