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Belarus - Alternative Visions
Belarus is often regarded as "Europe’s last dictatorship", a sort-of fossilized leftover from the Soviet Union. However, a key factor in determining Belarus’s development, including its likely future development, is its own sense of identity. This book explores the complex debates and competing narratives surrounding Belarus’s identity, revealing a far more diverse picture than the widely accepted monolithic post-Soviet nation. It examines in a range of media including historiography, films and literature how visions of Belarus as a nation have been constructed from the nineteenth century to the present day. It outlines a complex picture of contested myths – the "peasant nation" of the nineteenth century, the devoted Soviet republic of the late twentieth century and the revisionist Belarusian nationalism of the present. The author shows that Belarus is characterized by immense cultural, linguistic and ethnic polyphony, both in its lived history and in its cultural imaginary. The book analyses important examples of writing in and about Belarus, in Belarusian, Polish and Russian, revealing how different modes of rooted cosmopolitanism have been articulated.
France in Russia
First detailed account of how so much of Empress Josephine's collection came to be at the Hermitage Museum.
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State Hermitage Museum Catalogue
Among the many treasures of The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg is its remarkable collection of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Flemish paintings--more than five hundred in all--including key works by Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens, Snyders, and Teniers. Forming the core of the Hermitage's Flemish collection, these works were acquired from all over Europe by the Empress Catherine II, and the collection has continued to develop. This magnificent volume is the first to provide detailed information in English with illustrations for every work. More than 140 artists are represented in the collection and in this complete catalogue, which provides a comprehensive picture of the golden age of Flemish painting. Individual illustrated entries for every work are accompanied by detailed indexes and provenance information that provides a unique view of the history of collecting in Russia. Bard Graduate Center
Down Among the Fishes
Two twin sisters, natives of Dobratyche, a small Belarusian village on the Buh river close to the border with Poland, set out to examine the events that led to granny Makrynya's unexpected death. Their trek quickly turns into a murder investigation. As the twins uncover new facts of the crime, more questions need to be answered. But will they? A rural intrigue continues to hold the villagers firm in its grasp until the very resolution. Today mostly associated with the personality of President Lukashenka, Belarus remains terra incognita for the rest of the world. Babina's surprisingly fresh portrait of today's Belarus celebrates the country's diverse demographics be it business, education, culture or just the way people go about their daily errands. Quiet and shy, Belarus turns out to be the land of grandeur, vastness of spirit and passionate hearts and minds.
Фламандскайа зивопис' XВИИ-XВИИИ веков
. Enjoying one of the best collections of Flemish art in the world, the Hermitage has paintings in all genres and examples of the work of the most famous painters and the less well known (over 140 different artists in all). Truly exceptional are the groups of paintings by the greatest Flemish artists of the seventeenth century: Rubens, Van Dyke, Jacob Jordaens, Snyders, David Teniers (the Younger). Outlining the history of the collection, the authors point out that the first works acquired for the Hermitage's painting collection by Catherine the Great in 1764 were Flemish. They also review the study of the collection and the art-historical puzzles that have been solved over the years. The paintings themselves are beautifully reproduced with many details revealing the virtuosity of the artists.
El marqués del Pico Francisco Marcos de Velasco (1635-1693): gobernador del castillo de Amberes y coleccionista
Francisco Marcos de Velasco (1635-1693) protagonizó un espectacular ascenso social desde unos orígenes hidalgos humildes hasta llegar a ser gobernador de la ciudadela de Amberes en 1679 y marqués del Pico de Velasco en 1684. El medio utilizado para su meteórica carrera fue el ingreso en la red clientelar de los condestables de Castilla, mediante un supuesto común origen familiar, y la carrera profesional en el ejército, en lo que seguía a otros miembros de su familia directa. Vivió en años muy difíciles para la monarquía hispánica en la Europa del Norte. Años en los que prosperaron hombres hechos en la milicia, como su antagonista Francisco Antonio de Agurto, pues bastantes miem...
