Russian Central Asia in the works of Nikolai Karazin, 1842-1908 : ambivalent triumph

Author / Creator

Andreeva, Elena, 1963- author

Available as

Online

Physical

Summary

This book is dedicated to the literary and visual images of Central Asia in the works of the popular Russian artist Nikolai Karazin. It analyzes the ways Karazin's discourse inflected, and was infl...

This book is dedicated to the literary and visual images of Central Asia in the works of the popular Russian artist Nikolai Karazin. It analyzes the ways Karazin's discourse inflected, and was inflected by, the expansion of the Russian empire - and therefore sheds light on the place of art and culture in the Russian colonial enterprise. It is the first attempt to interpret Karazin's images of Central Asia within Russian imperial networks and within the maze of the Russian national identity that informed them.00Contents: 1. Introduction2. Nikolai Karazin's "discovery" of Central Asia as Russia's internal Orient3. Nikolai Karazin's military project: the discourse of power4. Nikolai Karazin's civilian project: Russians in Turkestan.5. Nikolai Karazin's civilian project: local people in Turkestan6. Karazin's ethnographic project and travelogues: topography and typography7. Conclusion00Author Biography: Elena Andreeva is Professor of History at Virginia Military Institute, USA, and the author of Russia and Iran in the Great Game: Travelogues and Orientalism (2007) and co-editor of Russians in Iran: Diplomacy and Power in the Qajar Era and Beyond (2018).

Show More