Katia Dianina
Biographic Data
| ID | 1106041 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katia Dianina |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katia |
| FAMILY NAME | Dianina |
| SIGNATURE | DIANINA K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Between museum and church: Remembering and reinventing national heritage
The proposed transfer of the St. Isaac’s Cathedral museum to the Russian Orthodox Church occasioned a major controversy in 2017. This essay considers the contestation between the museum and the Church as one conspicuous manifestation of competing heritage discourses and a useful lens through which to examine the religious renaissance of today. St. Isaac’s and the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg, two major churches and popular tourist attraction…
The Making of an Artist as National Hero: The Great Karl Briullov and His Critical Fortunes
This article examines the uneven reception of the famous Russian artist Karl Briullov and problematizes the canonization of the classics in imperial society. Drawing on contemporary literary and artistic sources, broadly available at the time but largely forgotten in the years since, I argue that Briullov's status as a cultural icon grew out of the wide-ranging controversy that followed the artist throughout the decades. Now feted as the national…
“Our Berendeevka”: The Invented Tradition of Russian Modernity
This article considers the Berendeevka tradition as one manifestation of Russian cultural identity that took hold of the national imagination near the turn of the twentieth century. The fairy-tale village Berendeevka emerged as the setting for A. Ostrovsky’s play in verse The Snow Maiden (1873). Initially a literary invention, the Berendeevka construct was cultivated by the creative intelligentsia in the artists’ colonies Abramtsevo and Talashkin…
The Return of History: Museum, Heritage, and National Identity in Imperial Russia
History plays a major role in the formation of nations. Museums of history, as they emerged during the long 19th century, are pivotal sites for the display of national heritage and identity. The present article considers the origins of the State Historical Museum in Moscow as a “festival of public activity” and discusses its unique civic character. Although the idea of a public museum was not new, in imperial Russia it had existed only as a figme…
Museum and Society in Imperial Russia: An Introduction
At the turn of the twentieth century, European critics who were distressed about contemporary developments in the fine arts tended to use medical, psychopathological terms to diagnose the existing state of the field. In 1892-1893, an Austrian physician and writer, Max Nordau, publishedEntartung(Degeneration). Drawing on positivist psychology and anthropometry, Nordau expressed his pessimistic views on the mental and physical health of the leading…
Art and Authority: The Hermitage of Catherine the Great
The Feuilleton: An Everyday Guide to Public Culture in the Age of the Great Reforms
Passage to Europe: Dostoevskii in the St. Petersburg Arcade
The St. Petersburg Passage—a shopping arcade and recreation complex, comprising restaurants, exhibitions, amateur theater, and the Literary Fund—was a remarkable center of public life in imperial Russia. Contemporary journalists wrote incessantly about the Passage, celebrating the various forms of popular entertainment that it offered. In his strange unfinished story “The Crocodile,” which also takes place in the Russian arcade, Fedor Dostoevskii…
Fenomen Peterburga: Trudy Mezhdunarodnoi konferentsii, sostoiavsheisia 3-5 noiabria 1999 goda vo Vserossiiskom muzee A. S. Pushkina
The Return of History: Museum, Heritage, and National Identity in Imperial Russia
History plays a major role in the formation of nations. Museums of history, as they emerged during the long 19th century, are pivotal sites for the display of national heritage and identity. The present article considers the origins of the State Historical Museum in Moscow as a “festival of public activity” and discusses its unique civic character. Although the idea of a public museum was not new, in imperial Russia it had existed only as a figme…
Museum and Society in Imperial Russia: An Introduction
At the turn of the twentieth century, European critics who were distressed about contemporary developments in the fine arts tended to use medical, psychopathological terms to diagnose the existing state of the field. In 1892-1893, an Austrian physician and writer, Max Nordau, publishedEntartung(Degeneration). Drawing on positivist psychology and anthropometry, Nordau expressed his pessimistic views on the mental and physical health of the leading…
Passage to Europe: Dostoevskii in the St. Petersburg Arcade
The St. Petersburg Passage—a shopping arcade and recreation complex, comprising restaurants, exhibitions, amateur theater, and the Literary Fund—was a remarkable center of public life in imperial Russia. Contemporary journalists wrote incessantly about the Passage, celebrating the various forms of popular entertainment that it offered. In his strange unfinished story “The Crocodile,” which also takes place in the Russian arcade, Fedor Dostoevskii…
Between museum and church: Remembering and reinventing national heritage
The proposed transfer of the St. Isaac’s Cathedral museum to the Russian Orthodox Church occasioned a major controversy in 2017. This essay considers the contestation between the museum and the Church as one conspicuous manifestation of competing heritage discourses and a useful lens through which to examine the religious renaissance of today. St. Isaac’s and the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg, two major churches and popular tourist attraction…
The Feuilleton: An Everyday Guide to Public Culture in the Age of the Great Reforms
Art and Authority: The Hermitage of Catherine the Great
Fenomen Peterburga: Trudy Mezhdunarodnoi konferentsii, sostoiavsheisia 3-5 noiabria 1999 goda vo Vserossiiskom muzee A. S. Pushkina
The Feuilleton: An Everyday Guide to Public Culture in the Age of the Great Reforms
Passage to Europe: Dostoevskii in the St. Petersburg Arcade
The St. Petersburg Passage—a shopping arcade and recreation complex, comprising restaurants, exhibitions, amateur theater, and the Literary Fund—was a remarkable center of public life in imperial Russia. Contemporary journalists wrote incessantly about the Passage, celebrating the various forms of popular entertainment that it offered. In his strange unfinished story “The Crocodile,” which also takes place in the Russian arcade, Fedor Dostoevskii…
Art and Authority: The Hermitage of Catherine the Great
Museum and Society in Imperial Russia: An Introduction
At the turn of the twentieth century, European critics who were distressed about contemporary developments in the fine arts tended to use medical, psychopathological terms to diagnose the existing state of the field. In 1892-1893, an Austrian physician and writer, Max Nordau, publishedEntartung(Degeneration). Drawing on positivist psychology and anthropometry, Nordau expressed his pessimistic views on the mental and physical health of the leading…
The Return of History: Museum, Heritage, and National Identity in Imperial Russia
History plays a major role in the formation of nations. Museums of history, as they emerged during the long 19th century, are pivotal sites for the display of national heritage and identity. The present article considers the origins of the State Historical Museum in Moscow as a “festival of public activity” and discusses its unique civic character. Although the idea of a public museum was not new, in imperial Russia it had existed only as a figme…
“Our Berendeevka”: The Invented Tradition of Russian Modernity
This article considers the Berendeevka tradition as one manifestation of Russian cultural identity that took hold of the national imagination near the turn of the twentieth century. The fairy-tale village Berendeevka emerged as the setting for A. Ostrovsky’s play in verse The Snow Maiden (1873). Initially a literary invention, the Berendeevka construct was cultivated by the creative intelligentsia in the artists’ colonies Abramtsevo and Talashkin…
The Making of an Artist as National Hero: The Great Karl Briullov and His Critical Fortunes
This article examines the uneven reception of the famous Russian artist Karl Briullov and problematizes the canonization of the classics in imperial society. Drawing on contemporary literary and artistic sources, broadly available at the time but largely forgotten in the years since, I argue that Briullov's status as a cultural icon grew out of the wide-ranging controversy that followed the artist throughout the decades. Now feted as the national…
Between museum and church: Remembering and reinventing national heritage
The proposed transfer of the St. Isaac’s Cathedral museum to the Russian Orthodox Church occasioned a major controversy in 2017. This essay considers the contestation between the museum and the Church as one conspicuous manifestation of competing heritage discourses and a useful lens through which to examine the religious renaissance of today. St. Isaac’s and the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg, two major churches and popular tourist attraction…
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