Tsars and Cossacks: A Study in Iconography

by Serhii Plokhy and Сергій Плохій

Ukrainian Cossacks used icon painting to investigate their relationship not only with God but also their relationship with the Russian tsar. Could Emperor Peter I and his adversary in the Battle of Poltava (1709)--the Cossack Hetman Ivan Mazepa--be depicted in the same icon? Why did the Cossack colonels commission icons with the portraits of their tsars, but not of their own Cossack leaders, the hetmans? Could a Catholic king be portrayed in an...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0916458954
• ISBN13: 9780916458959
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.1"