After reading Durnovo’s stunning foresight on the eve of World War I, I wanted to understand how the war was being conveyed to imperial subjects. After all, Durnovo believed that the war was hopeless. However, imperial subjects still went to … Read more

Zritel’, vol.1, no.19, November 3, 1905   Satirikon, vol. 2, no. 45, November 7, 1909 I chose both of these images as they both emphasize the precarious nature of the government after 1905, and the ensuring governmental reforms. The first … Read more

In this issue of the political satire journal Sprut, we are presented with an over-looming peasant woman, extreme thin, impoverished giving bones with leaflets of some kind attached to it to a crowd of dogs dressed as capitalists. The woman, Geaktsіya … Read more

Princess Kan, the President of the Volunteer Nurses Association found here. This card was part of set of 3 called the “Red Cross Set”, and was also part of a larger set of Russo-Japanese War commemorative postcards released in 1905. … Read more

The first two postcards depict the sinking of Russian battleships during the conflict. Instead of focusing on the glory or bombastic depictions of Japanese ships, several postcards such as the one’s above more so focused on the damage or demise … Read more

In light of talking about the Silver Age and the Russian ballet today in class, I found this video published by Berkley discussing the Silver Age and some of the notable artists that came out of it. This is not … Read more

Darwin’s On the Origin of Species was a very popular book in the late Russian empire. The first Russian-language edition of the book appeared five years after its English-language original in two different translations (1864: 1. Перевод М. Владимирского. Книга вышла … Read more

When Charles Darwin first published his Origin of Species in 1859 and put forward the theory of evolution by natural selection, I would argue, that it would not be an understatement to state that human society was forced to rethink … Read more

This edit was pretty simple. All I did was I took a map of Bulgaria and added it onto this painting. Then, I found an outline of Shipka Pass and laid that over the map of Bulgaria. My hope for … Read more