Or, Russian perspectives on the Great Exhibition (4). The late arrival of much of the Russian exhibit probably explains why we have to wait until the August issue of Sovremennik to read any details about what one assumes would have been of some significance to many Russian readers. The majority of the report is taken, […]
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Chaucer, Chernyshevsky and the Crystal Palace
Posted by Sarah Young on July 15, 2011
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2011/07/15/chaucer-chernyshevsky-crystal-palace/
Russian perspectives on the Great Exhibition (3)
Actually, this is the second, not the third report, from Sovremennik, taken from the June Miscellany of volume 27 (May-June 1851). I failed to spot it first time round. For those of you who aren’t familiar with 19th century Russian journals, they can be pretty confusing – they’re generally 800-900 pages long, and in several […]
Posted by Sarah Young on July 1, 2011
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2011/07/01/russian-perspectives-on-the-great-exhibition-3/
Russian perspectives on the Great Exhibition (2)
The second article on the Great Exhibition in Sovremennik [The Contemporary] appeared in the foreign news round-up of the July-August issue. While the first report was somewhat unclear in its origins, this one was evidently cobbled together from reports in the European press. A further development is apparent regarding the naming of the building; the […]
Posted by Sarah Young on June 9, 2011
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2011/06/09/russian-perspectives-on-the-great-exhibition-2/
The opening of the Great Exhibition: a view from Russia
The level of interest from around the world in the Great Exhibition was really quite remarkable, and Russia was no different. I’ve been digging out articles from Russian journals and present here what must be one of the very first, from the May-June issue of Sovremennik for 1851, which deals with the build-up to the […]
Posted by Sarah Young on May 29, 2011
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2011/05/29/the-opening-of-the-great-exhibition-a-view-from-russia/
Crystal Palace guidebooks and descriptions
Guidebooks to the 1851 Exhibition Guide-book to the Industrial exhibition, with facts, figures and observations on the manufactures and produce exhibited (Partridge & Oakey, 1851), also on Google books. A general guidebook with particular emphasis on the manfacturing processes and machiery on show, and arranged according to these rather than national stands. Hunt’s hand-book to the official […]
Posted by Sarah Young on May 25, 2011
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2011/05/25/crystal-palace-guidebooks-and-descriptions/
Great Exhibition Catalogues
It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything substantial on the Crystal Palace, so I’ve decided to focus a few posts on gathering together resources that are available on line – mainly 19th century stuff from Google books and archive.org for the time being. With this in mind, it makes sense to begin at the […]
Posted by Sarah Young on May 18, 2011
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2011/05/18/great-exhibition-catalogues/
Four short links: old Russian photos
I’ve been interested in old photos of Russia since visiting a fabulous exhibition at the Manezh in St Petersburg in late 2004. I still have vivid memories of pictures of the elderly Tolstoy riding his horse with his beard streaming, and a fascinating set of photos of the first trams in Petersburg. My love of […]
Posted by Sarah Young on August 26, 2010
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/08/26/four-short-links-old-russian-photos/
Villains and Victims
I’ve just got back from a conference at the University of Nottingham, organized by Sarah Badcock in the History department, entitled ‘Villains and Victims: Justice, violence and retribution in late Imperial and early Soviet Russia.’ It was a small, workshop-style conference with a couple of dozen participants, and like many of the other people there, […]
Posted by Sarah Young on April 8, 2010
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/04/08/villains-and-victims/
Ephemerality and versionality
I know I said my next post would explore some aspects of the connections in Shalamov, and that will be coming up soon, but for now… At the inaugural UCL Centre for Digital Humanities Decoding Digital Humanities event, a wide-ranging discussion initiated by our reading of Walter Benjamin’s The Work of Art in the Age […]
Posted by Sarah Young on March 23, 2010
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/03/23/ephemerality-and-versionality/
Four short links: resources on pre-revolutionary Russia
1. Russian Visual Arts: Art Criticism in Context, 1814-1909. Nice research archive of images and texts from the period, with lots of search options. Good for finding interesting and unexpected things, though occasionally difficult to find the images you’re actually looking for. A lot of the images are in black and white, which seems odd […]
Posted by Sarah Young on March 6, 2010
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/03/06/four-short-links-resources-on-pre-revolutionary-russia/