Tsars and Cossacks: A Study in Iconography
(Part of the Harvard Papers in Ukrainian Studies Series)
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0916458954
ISBN13:9780916458959
Release Date:April 2003
Publisher:Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
Length:102 Pages
Weight:0.47 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 6.0" x 9.1"
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