From lubok to libel: Nineteenth-century Russian historiography and popular memory in the Jester wedding of Prince-Pope Nikita Zotov
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This article discusses the origins and political significance of an anonymous Old Believer wall-poster depicting, in image and text, one of the most infamous public spectacles ever staged at the court of Peter the Great. Tracing its transition from the visual medium to the verbal, and back again, by way of nineteenth-century Petrine historiography, the article offers a new dating of this piece of Old Believer folk art, disputes its supposed debt to the "spirit of medieval laughter", and, in the process, demonstrates the permeability of late Imperial Russian "elite" and "popular" cultures. © 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Zitser, EA (2014). From lubok to libel: Nineteenth-century Russian historiography and popular memory in the Jester wedding of Prince-Pope Nikita Zotov. Russian Literature, 75(1-4). pp. 591–606. 10.1016/j.ruslit.2014.05.026 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/31487.
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Erik Zitser
Ernest (“Erik”) Zitser is the Librarian for Slavic and East European Studies, library liaison to the International Comparative Studies (ICS) Program, and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at Duke University. He is an active member of a number of professional organizations, including the East Coast Consortium of Slavic Library Collections (ECC); the Association for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies (ASEEES); and the Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies Association (ECRSA). He is also the co-founder and managing editor of ВИВЛIОθИКА: E-Journal of Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies, an open access, peer-reviewed, scholarly journal, hosted by Duke University Libraries.
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2000, Ph.D., Columbia University
1995, MA, Columbia University
1992, BA, University of California, Los Angeles
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