Valentin Serov<sp>Northwestern University Press
Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
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Portraits of Russia's Silver Age
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Z39.48-1984.</cp><toc><FMT>Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chronology
Chapter One
Child of the Intelligentsia
Chapter Two
The Mamontov Circle: Alternative Traditions
Chapter Three
Diaghilev and the Miriskusniki
Chapter Four
Merchants and Entrepreneurs: The New Wealth
Chapter Five
Imperial Portraits: A Changing View of Autocracy
Chapter Six
Women's Portraits: Sexuality and Intelligentsia Values
Chapter Seven
Serov and Modernism
Notes
Works Cited
Index</toc><FMT> Illustrations
<FM-1>Plates
<FM-2>Gallery 1 (follows page 000)
1. Girl with Peaches (Vera Mamontova), 1887.
2. Konstantin Korovin, 1891.
3. Fedor Chaliapin in the role of Holofenes, early 1900.
<Q>"early 1900" not "1900s"</Q>
4. Sergei Diaghilev, 1904.
5. Sketch of a Persian miniature, 1910.
6. Sketch for the central part of the stage curtain for Sch h razade, 1911.
7. Sofya Botkina, 1899.
8. Mikhail Morozov, 1902.
9. Grand Duke Pavel Aleksandrovich, 1897.
<FM-2>Gallery 2 (follows page 000)
10. The Anointment (coronation of Nicholas II), 1896.
11. Nicholas II (the informal portrait), 1900.
12. Feliks Yusupov, 1903.
13. Genrietta Girshman, 1907.
14. Zinaida Yusupova, 1902.
15. Olga Orlova, 1911.
16. Nikolai Pozniakov, 1908.
17. Ivan Morozov, 1910.
18. The Rape of Europa, 1910.
19. Ida Rubinstein (as Cleopatra), 1910.
<FM-1>Figures
1.1. Aleksandr Serov, 1889.
1.2. Valentina Sem'novna Serova, c. 1880.
1.3. Serov with his mother and nurse, photo, c. 1870.
1.4. Famine, 1892.
1.5. Manor house at the Nikolskoe commune, 1871 72.
1.6. Mikhail Vrubel, Vladimir von Derviz, and Serov, photo, 1883.
1.7. Repin and the Thirtieth Peredvizhnik Exhibit, 1903.
1.8. Ilya Repin, 1901.
1.9. Olga Trubnikova, 1885.
2.1. Self-portrait, 1879.
2.2. Ilya Repin, The Cavalcade (at Abramtsevo), 1879.
<Q>Does this mean the work is by Repin, not Serov?</Q>
2.3. Elizaveta Mamontova, 1887.
2.4. Serov (and striped jacket) with other members of the Abramtsevo circle, photo, 1886.
2.5. Savva Mamontov (translating Carmen), 1885. 
2.6. Savva Mamontov, 1887.
2.7. Ilya Repin, They Did Not Expect Him, 1884.
2.8. Ilya Ostroukhov, 1902.
2.9. Isaak Levitan, 1893. 
2.10. Fedor Chaliapin, 1905.
3.1. Valentin Serov, photo, early 1900s.
3.2. Self-portrait, 1901.
3.3. Fifteen Years Hence (caricature of Diaghilev and Nuvel), 1901.
3.4. Caricature of Bakst and Serov, 1901.
3.5. Lon Bonnat and Princess Tenisheva, both portraying Prince Tenishev, photo, early 1900s.
3.6. Mariya Tenisheva, 1898.
3.7. Caricatures of Igor Grabar, 1904.
4.1. Mariya Morozova, 1897.
4.2. Vasily Bakhrushin, 1899.
4.3. Nikolai Leskov, 1894.
4.4. Vasily Perov, Arrival of the Governess in a Merchant's Household, 1866.
4.5. Aleksandr Kasianov, 1907.
4.6. Emmanuel Nobel, 1909.
4.7. Caricature of Wanda Landowska, 1908.
4.8. Vladimir Girshman, 1911.
5.1. Alexander III and Family, 1895.
5.2. Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaevich, 1900.
5.3. Peter II and Princess Elizabeth Riding to the Hounds, 1900.
5.4. Catherine II Setting Out for the Hunt with Falcons, 1902.
5.5.  Empress Anna's Amusements.
5.6. Peter I (inspecting the construction of St. Petersburg), 1907.
5.7. Little Soldiers, Dear Lads, Where Is Your Glory? 1905.
5.8. Caricature of Nicholas II, 1905.
5.9. Aleksandra Fdorovna (leaving church service), 1901 2.
6.1. At the Window (Olga Trubnikova), 1886.
6.2. Mariya Simonovich-Lvova, 1895.
6.3. Zinaida Morits, 1892.
6.4. Evdokiya Morozova, 1908.
6.5. Oskar and Roza Gruzenberg, 1910.
6.6. Anna Tsetlin, 1909.
6.7. Margarita Morozova, 1910.
6.8. Mariya Ermolova, 1905.
6.9. Nadezhda Lamanova, 1911.
6.10. Princess Aleksandra Liven, 1909.
6.11. Caricature of Mikhail Kuzmin, 1907.
7.1. Leon Bakst, early 1900s.
7.2. Kora (based on sketches done in Greece), 1910.
7.3. Female Nude, 1910.
7.4. Mikhail Vrubel, 1907.
7.5. Caricature of Ida Rubinstein with Gabriele D'Annunzio and his wife, Natalya Golubeva,
1910.
7.6. Konstantin Stanislavsky, 1908.
<FMT>Acknowledgments