| #1602652 in eBooks | 2011-02-22 | 2011-02-22 | File type: PDF||7 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| Royal Patronage|By M. A Newman|This book was recently reviewed in the New York Times recently where its thesis was attacked. The reviewer tended to dismiss this work as an apology for autocracy and appeared only to have read one chapter, that on Pushkin's relationship with Nicholas I and tended to decry the role that he played in censoring Pushkin. The poor man clearly had no|From Booklist|So intrigued is Volkov with the nexus between art and politics in his native Russia, he follows his acclaimed The Magical Chorus: A History of Russian Culture from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn (2008) with
In a sweeping cultural history of Russia from the rise of the house of Romanov in 1613 to its downfall at the hands of the Bolsheviks in 1917, Solomon Volkov effortlessly unwinds the twisted relationship between art and the royal family.
Throughout the Romanov dynasty, Russia’s greatest artists and thinkers, painters and poets, composers and dancers, served two masters. Devotion to craft—or principle—could never wholly eclipse dependence on ...
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