images of Russia

[Benjamin Rifkin]

Dear SEELANGers:

In response to my query, several SEELANGers responded with URLs with
photos of Russia:

(Commentary are from the people who suggested the links:)

(I edited the list to feature only photographs of Russians, not
photographs of Americans in Russia.)

Here are some sites that might be of interest to you:
- http://www.pbs.org/weta/faceofrussia/, the 'Face of Russia' Site of
Billington (under 'reference' you can find many other links there too);
- www.guelman.ru, specialized in contemporary Russian art, but
containing many links to other 'hip' Russian sites as well
- http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/europe/russia/obt.htm,
the Russia page of the Lonely Planet, is maybe too general, but
might be interesting too.

It is not exactly what you are looking for (there are no nightlife or
economy ;-)) but you may like it and it is definitely attract some romantic
soul towards Russia ;-)) (IMHO images of our economy assure 'perfect'
nightmare...)

http://fotospb.narod.ru/pages/eenter.htm - St.-Petersburg and its outskirts
photos, also nature etc.

http://highland.by.ru - mind, there are not only Russia images!

Kizhi -- there are some absolutely gorgeous, though traditional,
pictures of Kizhi taken by a Viktor Bus at:
(Karelian sites in general are nice)
http://www.onego.ru/win/pages/kizhi/index_e.htm

When my lit class last semester looked for pictures of the Caucasus,
I joked that Chechnya would be too busy these days to *have* a website.
Wrong -- they have an excellent one, and some pictures are very topical
in a human-political kind of way.
http://amina.com/
The beautiful color pictures are at http://amina.com/images/icpic/
and there's more.

Our lit course page with some of these links -- and much more info --
can be found on our Dept page for that course, at:
http://www2.wheatonma.edu/Academic/AcademicDept/Russian/RUSSIAN/lit.html

Also check out Ben Sher's site, he always has stuff listed in an easily
accessible manner. I recommend the "Photography section," such as "scenes
of Russia," which is more people-oriented.
http://www.websher.net/inx/icdefault1.htm

And if you want vitality in contemporary art (a stretch from what you
were looking for), check "From Russian With Art" at
http://www.artinfo.ru/  Top link: visual arts.
You will find some super (and a few not-so-super) colour shots of Moscow
and St-Petersburg on this Canadian site:
<http://www.jean-renenadeau.com/photo/>
Look for three beginning with 'nought' ('0moscou' & '0st petersburg')
near the top of the list, then in alphabetical order under 'moscou' and
'st petersburg'.

For a description of the whole family trip, including Russia, see
<http://www.jean-renenadeau.com/historique.cfm>
The Russian section is covered in entries from 18/11 to 29/11/2000.


Although it is in English, the web site <http://www.infoservices.com>
has fantastically informative Yellow Pages for Moscow and, I assume,
for St. Petersburg.

I found a few pictures of Russian landmarks at the Microsoft Clip Art
Design Gallery by typing in Russia and searching for photos (Red
Square, St. Basils, Winter Palace, etc.):  http://dgl.microsoft.com/.

I also learned of a book and a CD-ROM that are coming out soon:

Abbeville Press's "The Russians Emerge" (I'm not sure of the
author/photographer)

Lauren Leighton's CD-ROM "Russia: A Visual Course of Lectures on
Modern Russian Culture" coming out from LexiconBridge Publishers.

I found that many Russian Departments had websites with images, some
with images of Russia taken by their students or featuring their
students (Macalaster, Dartmouth were among them.)

I hope that this collection of links is useful to you.

Thanks to the many Slavists who responded to my query.

With best regards,

BR


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Benjamin Rifkin

Professor of Slavic Languages, Slavic Dept., UW-Madison
1432 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Dr.
Madison, WI  53706 USA
voice: 608/262-1623; fax: 608/265-2814
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/slavic/rifkin/

Director of the Russian School
Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT  05753
voice:  802/443-5533; fax: 802/443-5394
http://www.middlebury.edu/~ls/Russian/

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