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/
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/
The Great Exhibition on Google
A lovely Google Doodle today to celebrate the 160th anniversary of the opening of the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, on 1st May 1851: The original has a nifty magnification feature, and some nice animations – the fountain works, for example. I assume it will appear in the doodles gallery at some point. It seems […]
Posted by Sarah Young on May 1, 2011
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2011/05/01/the-great-exhibition-on-google/
Atamansha
According to one of my mailing lists, a poll to identify the women who best symbolize modern-day Russia has seen the top two places given to ageing lite entertainment diva and staple of celebrity gossip magazines, Alla Pugacheva (I could never see the point, even ironically – perhaps because I like music), and the arch-Putinite […]
Posted by Sarah Young on March 8, 2011
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2011/03/08/atamansha/
Russians in London: the anarchist threat
For my final post in the series (for now), I want to discuss events rather than individuals. As a couple of my recent posts have suggested, by the end of the nineteenth century, the nature and number of Russian visitors to, and settlers in, London had changed considerably. It was no longer the preserve of […]
Posted by Sarah Young on January 31, 2011
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2011/01/31/russians-in-london-the-anarchist-threat/
Russians in London: Russian and Jewish radicals
In this post, the penultimate in the series, instead of focusing on a single figure, I’m going to explore one of the lines that connects Russian radicals, and in particular their agitational/publishing activities, to the work of their Russian-Jewish counterparts. Some may suggest that this stretches the definition of ‘Russians’ too far, as Jews would […]
Posted by Sarah Young on January 23, 2011
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2011/01/23/russians-in-london-russian-and-jewish-radicals/
Russians in London: Lenin
I’m no fan of Lenin, but he spent a good deal of time in London, so must be included in this series. I haven’t chosen this mugshot as an expression of my disapproval – it’s just that most of the photos that are available were taken after the revolution, and this one is the closest […]
Posted by Sarah Young on January 16, 2011
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2011/01/16/russians-in-london-lenin/