Marie-Antoinette(New York: Zone Books, 1999). On sexual rumors and slander on
Elizabeth I: Carole Levin,The Heart and Stomach of a King: Elizabeth I and the Politics
of Sex and Power, 2nd edn. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013).
On visual imagery of political power: Lindsey Hughes,“From Tsar to Emperor: Portraits of
Peter the Great,”in Gyula Szvák, ed.,The Place of Russia in Eurasia(Budapest: Magyar
Ruszisztikai Intézet, 2001), 221–32; Isabella Forbes and William Underhill,Catherine the
Great: Treasures of Imperial Russia from the State Hermitage Museum, Leningrad(London:
Booth-Clibborn Editions, 1990). For Russia through foreign eyes, see Elena V. Barkhatova,
“Visual Russia: Catherine II’s Russia through the Eyes of Foreign Graphic Artists,”in
Cynthia Hyla Whittaker, ed.,Russia Engages the World, 1453– 1825 (Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard University Press, 2003), 72–89.
On Catherine’s building projects, see Dmitri Shvidkovskii,The Empress and the Architect:
British Architecture and Gardens at the Court of Catherine the Great(New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1996) and his“Catherine the Great’s Field of Dreams: Architecture and
Landscape in the Russian Enlightenment,”in James Cracraft and Daniel B. Rowland,
Architectures of Russian Identity: 1500 to the Present(Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press,
2003), 51–65.
For architecture in Kazan, Reval, Riga, and Kyiv, see works cited in Chapter 6. On Siberia,
see Brumfield’s series on northern and Siberian towns, cited in Chapter 6. For a modern
travelogue of Siberia with a keen eye towards surviving architecture, see A. J. Haywood,
Siberia: A Cultural History(Oxford: Signal Books, 2010).
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