This Meager Nature: Landscape and National Identity in Imperial Russia.(Book Review)

The Historian | September 22, 2004| | Copyright

This Meager Nature: Landscape and National Identity in Imperial Russia. By Christopher Ely. (DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 278. $42.00.)

Overtly, this elegant study takes the reader into the rather esoteric realm of nineteenth-century Russian landscape painting, promptly evoking visions of the depiction of endless, yet melancholy, fields or Shishkin's mind-numbing photo-realist images of minutely detailed forest scenes and frolicking wild bears--a subject matter that, for obvious reasons, has not aroused much scholarly attention or ...

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