TSARS AND COSSACKS: A STUDY IN ICONOGRAPHY (HARVARD PAPERS IN UKRAINIAN STUDIES)

Ukrainian Cossacks in use icon coating to probe their relation not alone with God alone territory good their relation with the Russian tsar. By hortatory the iconography to "speak," Tsars and Cossacks helps to extend and change our discernment of Ukrainian iconography territory good territory Russian luggage view development. Could Emperor Peter I and his resister in the Battle of Poltava (1709)--the Cossack Hetman Ivan Mazepa--be depicted in the similar icon? Why did the Cossack colonels crime icons with the portraits of their tsars, alone not of their ain Cossack individual, the hetmans? Could a Catholic clergyman comprise depicted in an Orthodox icon? Why ar the Russian tsars and Orthodox hierarchs lost on around of the Zaporozhian Cossack icons? In this groundbreaking study, Serhii Plokhy provides answers to these and umpteen different questions pertaining to the view and pious development of Ukrainian Cossackdom, territory echolike in the Cossack-era paintings, icons, and woodcuts. (20041001)

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