Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 382 p.
This book is dedicated to the literary and visual images of Central Asia in the works of the popular Russian artist Nikolai Karazin (1842-1908). It analyzes the ways Karazin’s discourse inflected, and was inflected by, the expansion of the Russian empire - and therefore sheds light on the place of art and culture in the Russian colonial enterprise. It is the first attempt to interpret Karazin’s images of Central Asia within Russian imperial networks and within the maze of the Russian national identity that informed them.
Elena Andreeva is Professor of History at Virginia Military Institute, USA, and the author of
Russia and Iran in the Great Game: Travelogues and Orientalism (2007) and co-editor of
Russians in Iran: Diplomacy and Power in the Qajar Era and Beyond (2018).