Matthew P. Romaniello - The Life Cycle of Russian Things: From Fish Guts to Fabergé, 1600 - Present

The Life Cycle of Russian Things

The Life Cycle of Russian Things

From Fish Guts to Faberg, 1600Present

Edited by
Matthew P. Romaniello, Alison K. Smith, and Tricia Starks

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Names: Smith, Alison Karen, editor, author. | Romaniello, Matthew P.,

editor, author. | Starks, Tricia, 1969 editor, author.

Title: The life cycle of Russian things : from fish guts to Faberge,

1600present / edited by Matthew P. Romaniello, Alison K. Smith, and Tricia Starks.

Description: First edition. | London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic,

2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index. |

Identifiers: LCCN 2021012902 (print) | LCCN 2021012903 (ebook) |

ISBN 9781350186026 (hardback) | ISBN 9781350186033 (ebook) |

ISBN 9781350186040 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: RussiaSocial life and customs. | Soviet UnionSocial

life and customs. | Russia (Federation)Social life and customs. |

Material cultureRussiaHistory. | Material cultureSoviet

UnionHistory. | Material cultureRussia (Federation)History. |

Consumption (Economics)Social aspectsHistory.

Classification: LCC DK32 .L67 2021 (print) | LCC DK32 (ebook) | DDC 947dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021012902

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021012903

ISBN: HB: 978-1-3501-8602-6

ePDF: 978-1-3501-8603-3

eBook: 978-1-3501-8604-0

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Contents

Matthew P. Romaniello, Alison K. Smith, and Tricia Starks

Clare Griffin

Alison K. Smith

Ann Komaromi

Matthew P. Romaniello

Katherine Pickering Antonova

Charles Steinwedel

Audra Yoder

Tricia Starks

Brandon Schechter

Erika Monahan

Marisa Karyl Franz

Ulrike Schmiegelt-Rietig

Katherine Pickering Antonova is Associate Professor of History at Queens College, City University of New York, United States. She is the author of The Essential Guide to Writing History Essays (2020) and An Ordinary Marriage: The World of a Gentry Family in Provincial Russia (2013). She is currently writing Holy Men and Troublesome Women: Policing Faith in Russia after Napoleon and researching a book about textile hand production in Russia and the Soviet Union.

Marisa Karyl Franz is a faculty fellow in museum studies at New York University, United States. She is the author of A Visitors Guide to Shamans and Shamanism: The Kunstkameras Russian and Asian Ethnographic Collections in the Late Imperial Era. She is currently working on her manuscript Near and Desired Things: Desiderata and the Collection of Shamanic Materials for Local Siberian Museums, 18801910 .

Clare Griffin is Assistant Professor of the History of Science and Technology at Nazarbayev University, Republic of Kazakhstan. She has published several articles on science and medicine in early modern Russia in journals such as the Journal of Global History (2020). She is also the coeditor of Perpetual Motion? Transition and Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe & Russia (2011) and the special edition The Natural Turn in Early Modern Russian History, for I: E-Journal of Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies (2018). She is currently writing Material Worlds: Materia Medica and the Global History of Early Modern Russian Medicine.

Ann L. Komaromi is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Toronto, Canada. She is the author of Uncensored: The Quest for Autonomy in Soviet Samizdat (2015) and the electronic Project for the Study of Dissidence and Samizdat (2015). She is currently finishing a book on Soviet uncensored periodicals and publics, and she is working on studies of dissidence and the late Soviet avant-garde in comparative perspective.

Erika Monahan is Associate Professor of History at the University of New Mexico, United States. She is the author of The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Eurasia (2016) and Locating Rhubarb: Early Modernitys Relevant Obscurity, in Early Modern Things: Objects and Their Histories (2013), and coeditor of Seeing Muscovy Anew: PoliticsInstitutionsCulture (2017) with M. Flier, V. Kivelson, and D. Rowland. She is now working on two books, one about the early mapping of Russia and an expanded second edition of Lindsey Hughess The Romanovs: 16131917. She is the book review editor for Canadian-American Slavic Studies.

Matthew P. Romaniello is Associate Professor of History at Weber State University, United States. He is the author of Enterprising Empires: Russia and Britain in Eighteenth-Century Eurasia (2019) and The Elusive Empire: Kazan and the Creation of Russia, 15521671 (2012). He is also the editor of the Journal of World History and five edited volumes, including Russia in Asia: Imaginations, Interactions, and Realties (2020) with J. Hacking and J. Hardy. He is currently writing Humoring Russia: Body Politics in the Eighteenth Century.

Brandon Schechter has taught at NYU, Columbia, Brown, and UC Berkeley in the United States. He is the author of The Stuff of Soldiers: A History of the Red Army in World War II through Objects (2019) as well as articles in Ab Imperio , Kritika , and the Journal of Power Institutions of Post-Soviet Societies . He is currently working on The Search for Salvation in the Second World War , which compares the work of political officers in the Red Army with chaplains in the US Army.

Ulrike Schmiegelt-Rietig is Provenance Researcher at the Stiftung Preuische Schlsser und Grten in Potsdam, Germany. She is author of Eine Geschichte von Heiligen und Helden. Das Bildprogramm der Vladimirkathedrale in Kiev (2018) and coauthor, together with Corinna Kuhr-Korolev and Elena Zubkova, of Raub und Rettung. Russische Museen im Zweiten Weltkrieg (2019). She is also teaching museum methodologies and exhibition narratives at the Department of Material Culture of the Carl von Ossietzky-University of Oldenburg, Germany.