Russia Rediscovered

Explores Russian culture in the pre-Revolutionary era (ca. 1861-1905): encounters between elite and popular culture in a period of immense social upheaval, in particular the attempt to recover indigenously Russian art forms and rural traditions. Analyzes the expressions of this nativist trend in literature, ethnography, religion, and visual and applied arts, and attempts to sketch out the sociohistorical contexts of this "rediscovery" of native Russian culture.