Tsars and Cossacks: A Study in Iconography.(Book Review)

From: The Historian | Date: March 22, 2005| Author: O'Rourke, Shane | Copyright information

Tsars and Cossacks: A Study in Iconography. By Serhii Plokhy. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 102. $18.95.)

The centerpiece of Serhii Plokhy's elegant, short book is the Icon of the Pokrova in the Church of that name in Pereiaslav. Icons of the Pokrova, deriving from Constantinople, depicted the Virgin Mary draping her mantle protectively over towns or people. The cult had transferred to Russia and became particularly popular in Ukraine in the late sev...

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