Table of Contents
List of Illustrations viii
Acknowledgments xi
Note on Transliteration xiii
Introduction At Every Time and In Every Place 3
The Mother of God in Modern Russian Culture Vera Shevzov Amy Singleton Adams
Chapter 1 More Numerous Than the Stars in Heaven 37
An Early Eighteenth-Century Multimedia Compendium of Mariology Elena N. Boeck
Chapter 2 The Akhtyrka Icon of the Mother of God 58
A Glimpse of Eighteenth-Century Orthodox Piety on a Southwestern Frontier Christine D. Worobec
Chapter 3 Pushkin Framing Mary 82
Blasphemy, Beauty, and National Identity Sarah Pratt
Chapter 4 The Mother of God and the Lives of Orthodox Female Religious in Late Imperial Russia William G. Wagner 98
Chapter 5 The Woman at the Window 122
Gorky's Revolutionary Madonna Amy Singleton Adams
Chapter 6 Marina Tsvetaeva's Images of the Mother of God in the Context of Russian Cultural Developments in the 1910s-1920s Alexandra Smith 144
Chapter 7 Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin's 1918 in Petrograd (The Petrograd Madonna) and the Meaning of Mary in 1920 Wendy Salmond 163
Chapter 8 Our Mother of Paris 187
The "Creative Renewal" of Orthodox Mariology in the Russian Emigration, 1920s-1930s Natalia Ermolaev
Chapter 9 The Madonna Painter 209
Pimen Maksimovich Sofronov and Marian Iconography (1898-1973) Roy R. Robson
Chapter 10 The Marian Ideal in the Works of Tatiana Goricheva and the Mariia Journals Elizabeth Skomp 227
Chapter 11 Following in Mary's Footsteps 246
Marian Apparitions and Pilgrimage in Contemporary Russia Stella Rock
Chapter 12 On the Field of Battle 270
The Marian Face of Post-Soviet Russia Vera Shevzov
Afterword Judith Deutsch Kornblatt 313
Glossary 317
Contributors 333
Index 335
