Visualizing Russia in Early Modern Europe

by Nancy S. Kollmann

In early modern Europe, the emergence and development of print culture proved a powerful new method for producing and disseminating knowledge of Russia through visual means. By examining the images of Russia found in travel accounts, pamphlets, maps and costume books, this study demonstrates how the visual shaped a dual understanding of these lands: Russia and Russians were portrayed as familiar, but the steppe and forest frontiers were seen as forbidding...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009418688
• ISBN13: 9781009418683
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 8.6"