The reading, “Home Was Never Where the Heart Was: Domestic Dystopias in Russia’s Silent Movie Melodramas” alludes to the melodramas of late imperial Russia as coming out of the tensions that were felt across Russian society as a result of … Read more
The image above shows the cover of Zritel’ from August 1905. It shows a group of people harvesting in Russian fields. Standing clear in the foreground is a man wearing a top hat and a white suit, this presumably is … Read more
The postcard above demonstrates a growing trend among postcards through the Russo-Japanese War, that of postcard ‘realism’. This trend grew out of earlier examples, such as the war reporting of the Crimean War, and aimed to show the ‘gritty’ side … Read more
The Royal Geographical Society of the United Kingdom, founded in 1830 as the Geographical Society of London (gaining Royal Charter a few years later), was one of the world’s first learned societies for the discipline of Geography. In its early days it … Read more
The Times, a daily newspaper published in London, in its March 14 1881 edition, wrote that: The piece goes onto describe the reaction to this news across Europe. It reports that the Austrian Emperor was “deeply moved” by the news, … Read more
This image, from the Turkestan Album’s ‘Historical Part’ (Part 4), shows an Orthodox church at a fort in Syr Darya Oblast. The centre of Syr Darya Oblast was Tashkent, and the region now covers areas of Uzbekistan and Kazakstan. The … Read more
I used the following website to learn more about the Crimean War: https://www.history.com/topics/british-history/crimean-war The website explains that the war in Crimea stemmed from Russia’s threat to European interests, as well as the perceived threat to regional stability as a result of … Read more
The Wanderers were a group of Russian realist artists that developed an artists’ cooperative in protest at, and in order to escape, the restrictions placed upon artists by the Russian Imperial Academy of Arts. The group called themselves The Society of Travelling … Read more
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 bestselling book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, explores slavery in the Antebellum South, and it has been widely recognised as having had an important impact on changing attitudes towards African Americans and the institution of slavery in the USA. It … Read more
