Moscow & St. Petersburg 1900-1920: art, life & culture of the Russian silver age

Introduction

Ch. 1. A double-headed eagle : Russia, land of paradox

Ch. 2. Azure heights, sapphire depths : philosophical concepts of the Russian silver age

Ch. 3. The shock of the new : technology, science, engineering

Ch. 4. The style moderne : Russian refractions of Art nouveau

Ch. 5. The world of art : Sergei Diaghilev and his circle

Ch. 6. Flowers, flowers to cover the tomb! : blooms of decadence

Ch. 7. Body art : ballet, theater, cabaret, nudism

Ch. 8. Aesthetes and barbarians : Apollo and the suicide of art

Ch. 9. The year 1913 : crossroads of past and future

Ch. 10. Apocalypse now : war, revolution, and cultural centrifuge

Epilogue

Notes

Chronology

Glossary

Further reading

Index.