Ukrainian Cossacks used icon painting to investigate their
relationship not only with God but also their relationship with the
Russian tsar. Could Emperor Peter I and his adversary in the Battle
of Poltava (1709)--the Cossack Hetman Ivan Mazepa--be depicted in
the same icon? Why did the Cossack colonels commission icons with
the portraits of their tsars, but not of their own Cossack leaders,
the hetmans? Could a Catholic king be portrayed in an Orthodox
icon? Why are the Russian tsars and Orthodox hierarchs missing on
some of the Zaporozhian Cossack icons?
In this groundbreaking study, Serhii Plokhy provides answers to
these and many other questions pertaining to the political and
religious culture of Ukrainian Cossackdom, as reflected in the
Cossack-era paintings, icons, and woodcuts. By encouraging the
iconography to "speak," "Tsars and Cossacks" helps to broaden and
deepen our understanding of Ukrainian iconography as well as
Russian imperial political culture.
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