[PDF.24ea] Tsars and Cossacks: A Study in Iconography (Harvard Papers in Ukrainian Studies)

Tsars and Cossacks: A Study in Iconography (Harvard Papers in Ukrainian Studies)

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 | #3812821 in Books |  2003-04-30 |  2003-05-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.12 x.38 x6.00l,.47 | File type: PDF | 102 pages

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||6 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| A scholarly study of Centuries old Ukrainian Icons|By Gsaxon|Very dry but informative with lots of references to other books.
The book left me wondering about undefined terms such as "Sarmatianism", "Khazar Myth", and others, which were never explained but referenced in the bibliography.
It explains, in part, why some Ukrainian Cossacks commissioned Icons that include| |The brevity of this work (seventy-five pages) should not blind the reader to the fact that it is a complex and comprehensive summary written for a knowledgeable audience. Plokhy is particularly adept at referring the reader to the important problems and contra

Ukrainian Cossacks used icon painting to investigate their relationship not only with God but also their relationship with the Russian tsar. Could Emperor Peter I and his adversary in the Battle of Poltava (1709)--the Cossack Hetman Ivan Mazepa--be depicted in the same icon? Why did the Cossack colonels commission icons with the portraits of their tsars, but not of their own Cossack leaders, the hetmans? Could a Catholic king be portrayed in an Orthodox icon? Why are...

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