Photographing, Exploring and Exhibiting Russian Turkestan; Central Asia on Display; 1

"This book illuminates the crucial role photography played from the very beginning of the Russian colonial presence in Central Asia and its entanglement with the orientalist legacy that followed. Inessa Kouteinikova examines these under-studied materials while also addressing the photographic market and reception of photography in the Russian Empire, the position of the popular press, the place of public exhibitions and emergence of the first ethnographic museums that took pace from Moscow to Tashkent during the time of the Russian conquest. This book embraces the dominant mode for representing the new colonial territories in the mid-late nineteenth-century Russia, by outlining the technical, commercial, and artistic milieus during the golden age of Russian orientalism. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, history of photography, and Russian studies"-- Provided by publisher Photographing, Exploring and Exhibiting Russian Turkestan Cover -1 Half Title 2 Series Page 3 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Contents 6 Acknowledgements 8 Introduction 10 Brief Outline of the Chapters 17 Chapter 1 - Photography on Our Side 17 Chapter 2 - Albumania à la Russe 19 Chapter 3 - Ethnographic Dissonance: Russia's First Colonial Exhibitions 19 Chapter 4 - Craftsman of Ethnography: Samuil M. Dudin 20 Chapter 5 - The Art of Photographic Ethnography: Vasilii Vereshchagin 21 Chapter 6 - Perusing Different Goals in Central Asia: Russian and Foreign Explorers and Their Photographic Interests 23 Conclusion 25 Notes 25 1. Photography on Our Side 30 Inorodzy and Nationdom 31 How to Portray the Inozemzy? 35 Photographic Developments and Adaptability 37 Photography and the Turkestan Press 39 Between Training and Order 40 Missionaries and Photography 42 Notes 48 2. Albumania à La Russe 58 The Album's Principal Commissioner 62 Turkestan Chronicle as Album and Its Principle Gatherers 68 Geography of the Album 73 Kaufman's Primary Assistants 74 Aleksey Kun 74 Nikolai Nekhoroshev: Inventing Turkestan Ethnographic Portraiture 75 Album's Major Achievements 79 Notes 79 3. Ethnographic Dissonance: Russia's First Colonial Exhibitions 87 Turkestan Exhibited: First Russian Ethnographic Exhibition, 1867 87 New Challenges: Polytechnic Exhibition, 1872 99 Ethnography Expands: Turkestan Exhibition (1890) and Central Asia Exhibition (1891) 101 Notes 107 4. Craftsman of Ethnography: Samuil M. Dudin 113 Personalities, Programmes and Visions behind Russian Ethnographic Sciences 113 The Storehouse of Asiatic Gems 116 Emerging from Obscurity: Central Asian Collections - First Asiatic Displays in Russia and Tashkent 117 Samuil Dudin: The Image of the Ethnographic Curator 117 Impetus for Developing and Expanding Local Islamic and Ethnographic Collections 121 Dudin's Cosmopolitanism and "Going Native" 127 Cultural Accumulation and Expansion of Asiatic (Islamic) Collections 131 The People Museum in Tashkent 134 Scientific Colonisation: Asiatic Museum 135 First Official Collection of Islamic Art in Moscow 139 Central Asia's Master Photographer: Conclusion 141 Notes 143 5. The Art of Photographic Ethnography: Vasily Vereshchagin 151 The Two Worlds of Russia 151 Photographic Tyranny 158 Dissonance and Resemblance 162 Conclusion: Provocation and Destruction of Stigma 165 Notes 167 6. Perusing Different Goals in Central Asia: Russian and Foreign Explorers and Their Photographic Interests 176 Expeditions and Explorers: Transformative Scientific Academy 177 Practical Vision of Science: Aleksey and Olga Fedchenko 177 Popularity of Central Asia outside Russia 184 Ole Olufsen 185 Sven Hedin 187 Carl-Gustav Emil Mannerheim: 14,000 Kilometres 191 Henri Moser 202 Notes 205 Conclusion 214 Notes 218 Index 220 photography;,colonialism;,Russia;,Central,Asia;,Turkestan;,exhibitions;,museum;,collections;,orthodox;,Muslim;,imperialism;,politics;,Sergei,Levitzky;,Caucasus;,ateliers;,market;,Russian,Empire;,ethnography;,Moscow;,Tashkent;,orientalism; photography,colonialism,Russia,Central Asia,Turkestan,exhibitions,museum,collections,orthodox,Muslim,imperialism,politics,Sergei Levitzky,Caucasus,ateliers,market,Russian Empire,ethnography,Moscow,Tashkent,orientalism This book illuminates the crucial role photography played from the very beginning of the Russian colonial presence in Central Asia and its entanglement with the orientalist legacy that followed. Inessa Kouteinikova examines these under-studied materials while also addressing the photographic market and reception of photography in the Russian Empire, the position of the popular press, the place of public exhibitions and emergence of the first ethnographic museums that took pace from Moscow to Tashkent during the time of the Russian conquest. This book embraces the dominant mode for representing the new colonial territories in the mid-late-19th-century Russia, by outlining the technical, commercial and artistic milieus during the Golden Age of Russian orientalism. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, history of photography and Russian studies.