- 19th Century Russia

 

 

 

 


Falconet's Statue of Peter the Great (1788) (painting by Vasily Ivanovich Surikov) (illustration) (dramatic photo)


Aivazovsky,  The Ninth Wave,
(1850) (super detail)


Yakobi, Halt of the Prisoners (1861)


Perov, Feodor Dostoyevsky (1872)


Surikov, The Morning of the Execution of the Streltsy. 1881


Surikov,  Yermak's Conquest of Siberia (1895)

repin_cassocks
Repin, The Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mahmoud IV (1880-1891)


Repin, Barge Haulers on the Volga  (1870)

Key Questions

 

 

 
  • What changes in the Russian culture are reflected in the shift in artistic and literary styles over the course of the 19th century?
  • What were the political, social and economic changes occurring in Russia over the course of the 19th Century?
  • To what extent is it possible to say that the ideas of the Enlightenment and subsequent changes of the Industrial Revolution had not yet reached Russia by the end of the 19th century?
  • To what degree did the disconnect between the expression of ‘high’ and ‘common’ culture of 19th century Russia manifested in the structural problems of the Russian Empire?
  • In what ways, was Russia at the end of the 19th century ‘behind’ [backward] the rest of Europe? In what ways were Russian intellectuals contemporary to the rest of European society at the time?
  • What was the relationship between the changing mode of production and the values and political/social structures being developed in Russia?

 19th c. Russia Political, Social, Economic, Intellectual Religious

 19th c. Russia Art:

 19th c. Russia Literature:

 19th c. Russia Music:

Primary Sources:

Primary Sources:

Primary Sources:

Primary Sources:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
   

 
 


Repin, Krestny Khod (Religious Procession) in Kursk Gubernia. (1880-1883)


Surikov. The Boyarynia Morozova. 1887


Tolstoy at his Desk


Kramskoy, Christ in the Wilderness (1871)


Kramskoy, Village Elder (1873)


Repin, Ivan the Terrible  and His Son Ivan: 
November 16, 1581 (1885)

19th c. Russia Political, Social, Economic, Intellectual Religious

 19th c. Russia Art:

19th c. Russia Literature:

19th c. Russia Music:

Secondary Sources:

Secondary Sources:

Secondary Sources:

Secondary Sources:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Political, Social, Economic, Intellectual Religious

19th c. Russia Art:

 19th c. Russia Literature:

19th c. Russia Music:

Lesson Plans and Presentations:

Lesson Plans and Presentations:

Lesson Plans and Presentations:

Lesson Plans and Presentations: