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Introduction to Russian Culture
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18th-19th Centuries
2. Imperial Russia


St. Petersburg and the 18th Century

  1. Peter I, the Great (1682-1725)
  2. Catherine I (1725-1727)
  3. Peter II (1727-1730)
  4. Anna Ivanovna (1730-1740)
  5. Ivan VI (1740-1741)
  6. Elizabeth (1741-61)
  7. Peter III (1761-1762)
  8. Catherine II the Great (1762-96)
  9. Manifesto of Catherine II, the Great
  10. Paul I (1796-1801)
  11. State Hermitage Museum: Peter the Great
  12. State Hermitage Museum: Reigns of Anna and Elizabeth
  13. State Hermitage Museum: Catherine the Great
  14. Illustrated Short History of St. Petersburg
  15. The City on the Neva River (Pictures)
  16. St. Petersburg in Pictures
  17. Orthodox Cathedrals and Churches of St. Petersburg
  18. Maps of St. Petersburg

Culture in the Western Tradition
  1. Bartolomeo Franchesko Rastrelli
  2. Petrodvorets (1)
  3. Petrodvorets (2)
  4. The Winter Palace
  5. The Winter Palace and The Hermitage
  6. Smolny Cathedral
  7. Pushkin (Tsarskoye Selo) and Pavlovsk
  8. Tsarskoe Selo
  9. Lomonosov on Science
  10. Two Letters of M. V. Lomonosov
  11. N. M. Karamzin (Wikipedia)
  12. Alexander Sumarokov (1)
  13. Alexander Sumarokov (2)
  14. Sculpture of Peter I
  15. The Bronze Horseman
  16. Eighteenth Century Art
  17. Portrait of Catherine the Great
  18. Dimitrii Grigorevich Levitskii
  19. Portrait Painting under Elizabeth and Catherine

Russia under Alexander I , Nicholas I, and Alexander II
  1. Alexander I, 1801-1825
  2. Napoleon's Invasion of Russia
  3. Napoleon's Invasion of Russia, 1812
  4. Napoleon's March to Moscow and Retreat
  5. Nicholas I, 1825-1855
  6. Nicholas I Biography
  7. Decembrist Uprising, 1825
  8. Decembrists
  9. Memoirs of A.E. Rozen on the Decembrist Movement
  10. State Hermitage Museum: Reigns of Paul I, Alexander I, and Nicholas I
  11. The Crimean War
  12. The Crimean War 1853-1856
  13. Alexander II, 1855-1881
  14. Alexander II and His Times
  15. Manifesto of February 19, 1861
  16. Peter Kropotkin on the Assassination of Alexander II
  17. State Hermitage Museum: Reigns of Alexander II and Alexander III

The Golden Age of Russian Literature
  1. The Alexander Pushkin Home Page
  2. Pushkin Memorial Museum (Russian)
  3. Poems by Lermontov
  4. More Poems by Lermontov
  5. A Hero of Our Time
  6. The Rise of Prose: Nikolai Gogol
  7. Nikolay Gogol
  8. Gogol--Three Stories
  9. Ivan Turgenev
  10. The District Doctor
  11. Lev Tolstoi
  12. Yasnaya Polyana
  13. Images of Leo Tolstoy
  14. A Confession
  15. Tolstoy on Tobacco
  16. Great Books Index: Leo Tolstoy
  17. Tad's Tolstoy Bookmarks
  18. Dostoevsky Research Station
  19. Great Books Index: Fyodor Dostoevsky
  20. The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
  21. Bobok
  22. The Crocodile
  23. A Gentle Spirit

Russian Classical Music
  1. Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (Wikipedia)
  2. Alexander Borodin
  3. Mussorgsky--Portrait by Repin
  4. Modest Mussorgsky
  5. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  6. The Rimsky-Korsakov Home Page
  7. Cui Homepage
  8. Casar Cui
  9. Mily Alekseyevich Balakirev
  10. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  11. Piotr Tchaikovsky
  12. Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky
  13. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Painting Russian Life
  1. Society of Traveling Exhibitions (Wanderers, Itinerants)
  2. Peredvizhniki (Russian and English)
  3. Ilya Efimovich Repin (1844-1930)
  4. Nikolay Gay (Ge)
  5. Ivan Kramskoy
  6. Isaac Levitan
  7. Vasily Perov
  8. Ilya Repin
  9. Valentin Serov
  10. Vasily Surikov
  11. Russian Art
  12. Russian Painting of the Nineteenth Century
  13. Russian Art Gallery

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