Study in iconography provides glimpse of Kozaks' relations with God and the tsar: "Tsars and Cossacks: A Study in Iconography," by Serhii Plokhy

From: Ukrainian Weekly, The | Date: November 10, 2002 | Copyright information


Ukrainian Weekly, The

11-10-2002

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The release of the second book published earlier this
year by the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, "Tsars and Cossacks: A
Study in Iconography," was made possible by the Dr. Omeljan and Iryna
Wolynec Publication Fund. The book's author, Serhii Plokhy, the 2002 Petro
Jacyk Distinguished Fellow at HURI, explores the ways in which Ukrainian
Kozaks used icon painting to navigate not only their rela...

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