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In A Sweeping Cultural History Of Russia From The Rise Of The House Of Romanov In 1613 To Its Downfall At The Hands Of The Bolsheviks In 1917, Solomon Volkov Effortlessly Unwinds The Twisted Relationship Between Art And The Royal Family. Throughout The Romanov Dynasty, Russia's Greatest Artists And Thinkers, Painters And Poets, Composers And Dancers, Served Two Masters. Devotion To Craft--or Principle--could Never Wholly Eclipse Dependence On The Tsars. Similarly, Consumers Of Russian Culture Could Never Respond Without Political Consideration: Volkov Recounts How, At The 1836 Premiere Of Glinka's Opera A Life For The Tsar, Fashionable Audiences Watched Nicholas I In His Private Box To See How They Ought To React. He Wept, And They Wept Accordingly. In This Spellbinding Story, We Watch The Great Figures Of Russian History Clash. Alexei, Father Of Peter The Great, Befriended The Writer Avvakum Only To Banish Him; The Next Tsar, Fedor, Had Avvakum Burned Alive. Using Her Notorious Charms, Catherine The Great Masterfully Wielded Political Control Over Her Culture Industry. For His Part, Pushkin Became The First Favored Artist To Resist The Tsar's Influence. His Poem 'to Liberty' Is Ch

Author

Solomon Volkov; Antonina W Bouis

Publisher

Knopf Publishing Group

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781299149977

Subjects

Memoir, History, Biography