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Pictures at an Exhibition: Science, Patriotism, and Civil Society in Imperial Russia

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Joseph Bradley
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Organized by a Moscow learned society, the Polytechnical Exposition of 1872 helped mobilize resources for popularizing science that connected tsarist officialdom, the Moscow municipal government and business community, university scientists, and other private associations. Although the relationship between the autocratic government and society is often portrayed in terms of conflict, partnership was more typically the rule, especially in the effort to build a native science infrastructure. The grand exhibitions of science and industry of the nineteenth century were sites of modernity that displayed visions of progress, created a public culture, and fashioned national identity. Moscow's Polytechnical Exposition juxtaposed the modern and the foreign with the traditional and the Russian in order to demonstrate that Russia could have modern science and technology without abandoning its traditional culture. Paradoxically, to assert its place in European civilization in an age of nationalism and imperialism, Russia had to assert its Russianness—its cultural distinctiveness, patriotism, and imperial pride. With its emphasis on change and progress, as well as on traditional Russian culture, the exposition fostered a Russian public aware of its place in a changing world, of its place in history, of its identity as a nation.

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Displaying the Nation and Modernity in Russia: Directions in Russian Museum Studies
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Slavic Review , Volume 67 , Issue 4 , Winter 2008 , pp. 934 - 966
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 2008

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I presented earlier versions of this article to the seminar of Washington area Russian historians at Georgetown University and as the Norris lecture at Oklahoma State University and benefited from the comments I received at both venues. I am also grateful to Chris Ruane for her suggestions on an earlier draft and to the anonymous reviewers of Slavic Review. Epigraph from Viktor K. Della-Vos, referring to the 1872 Polytechnical Exposition in “Rech’ o zadachakh muzeia prikladnykh znaniia, proiznesennaia pri otkrytii muzeia 30 noiabria 1872 g.,” in Moskovskii muzei prikladnykh znanii, Materialy, kasaiushchiesia ustroistva muzeia, rechi, proiznesennye pri ego otkrytii i otchet vysochaishe uchrezhdennogo komiteta muzeia, i otchet Vysochaishe uchrezhdennogo Komiteta muzeia za pervyi god ego sushchestvovaniia po 30 noiabria 1873g., 3 vols., in Izvestiia OLEAE (Moscow, 1874-76), 1:61.

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14. These passages are from Shchurovskii's address to the society's 22nd meeting (23 April 1867), just before the opening of the 1867 Ethnographic Exposition. Protokoly zasedanii OLEAE, in Izvestiia OLEAE, vol. 3, no. 2 (1886): col. 65-66. On the Ethnographic Exposition, see Nathaniel Knight, “The Empire on Display: Science, Nationalism and the Challenge of Human Diversity in the Ail-Russian Ethnographic Exposition of 1867” (paper presented at the AAASS annual meeting, Washington, D.C., 2001).

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17. Vek, no. 50 (1861): 1405-6.

18. Protokoly zasedanii OLEAE, in Izvestiia OLEAE, vol. 3, no. 2 (1886): col. 65-66, 90, 229-30; and in hvestiiavol. 9, no. 1 (Moscow, 1871): 35; two statements concerning the goals of the exposition by Bogdanov and Della-Vos as well as a draft plan of the exposition can be found in Politekhnicheskaia vystavka Imperatorskogo obshchestva liubitelei estestvoznaniia, antropologii i etnografii (Moscow, 1870); A. P. Bogdanov, “Pervyi kamen’ osnovaniia Politekhnicheskoi vystavki,” Arkhiv RAN, f. 446, op. la, d. 41a, 11. 30-30ob.; OLEAE, Vserossiiskaia etnograficheskaia vystavka (Moscow, 1867), 3.

19. The imperial decree authorizing OLEAE to organize the exposition can be found in PSZ, 2d ser., vol. 45 (1870), no. 48367. This followed the approval of the Ministry of Education. Protokoly zasedanii OLEAE, in Izvestiia OLEAE, vol. 8, no. 1 (1871): col. 123- 35. See also “Doklad Komissii ob ustroistve v Moskve obshche-obrazovatel'nogo muzeia prikladnykh znanii,” in Moskovskaia gorodskaia duma, Doklady (25 August 1870): 2, 6. On the Polytechnical Museum, see A. P. Bogdanov, “Obrazovatel'nyi Politekhnicheskii muzei v Moskve,” and G. E. Shchurovskii, “Sposob osnovaniia muzeev posredstvom vystavok,“ in Moskovskii muzei prikladnykh znanii, Materialy, 1:13-21, 53-54; and Joseph Bradley, “Nauka v gorode: Osnovanie Moskovskogo politekhnicheskogo muzeia,” in Rossiia XXI, no. 2 (2005): 96-127.

20. VestnikMoskovskoiPolitekhnicheskoi vystavki, no. 48 (1872): 2; Golos, no. 158 (9June 1871): 2; Politekhnicheskaia vystavka Imperatorskogo OLEAE, 5-6. Pos'et was a member of numerous associations, including OLEAE, the Russian Geographical Society, the Russian Technical Society, and the SOS Society. See Entsiklopedicheskii slovar’ Brokgauza i Efrona: Biografii (Moscow, 1991), 601-6; Al'manakh sovremennykh russkikhgosudarstvennykh deiatelei (St. Petersburg, 1897), 59-61.

21. “Moskovskaia Politekhnicheskaia vystavka s voennoi tochki zreniia,” 1-2, 14. For Miliutin in the Geographical Society, a good place to start is P. P. Semenov, Istoriia poluvekovoi deiatel'nosti Imperatorskogo Russkogo geograficheskogo obshchestua, 1845-1895, 3 vols. (St. Petersburg, 1896). See also Joseph Bradley, Voluntary Associations in Tsarist Russia: Science, Patriotism and Civil Society (Cambridge, Mass., forthcoming).

22. Vestnik Moskovskoi politekhnicheskoi vystavki, no. 12 (1872): 1. The major military journals—Voennyi sbornik, Morskoi sbornik, Artilleriiskii zhurnal, Oruzheinyi sbornik, and the newspaper Russkii invalid, assiduously reported on displays of military technology in Europe and Russia. For a discussion of some of these projects, especially the modernization of small arms, see Bradley, Joseph, Guns for the Tsar: American Technology and the Small Arms Industry in Nineteenth-Century Russia (DeKalb, 1990)Google Scholar.

23. TsIAM, f. 227, op. 1, d. 4 (“Zapiski Komiteta dlia ustroistva muzeia prikladnykh znanii“), 11. 1-20; “Uchrezhdenie Komiteta dlia ustroistva v Sankt-Peterburge obshchego muzeia prikladnykh znanii,” PSZ, 2d ser., vol. 46 (1871), no. 49623; N. Kh. Vessel', “Kak voznik pervyi v Rossii Muzei prikladnykh znanii v Peterburge, v Solianom gorodke: Iz moego dnevnika,” Russkaia shkola, no. 1 (January 1894): 9-30.

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25. Owen, Capitalism and Politics, 54-59; Rieber, Merchants and Entrepreneurs, 135-37.

26. Gobs, no. 45 (14 February 1871): 1; Vestnik Moskovskoi Politekhnicheskoi vystavki, no. 5 (1872): 1; Protokoly zasedanii Komiteta po ustroistvu Politekhnicheskoi vystavki, 3 vols. (Moscow, 1869-71): 1:34; Protokoly zasedanii OLEAE, in hvestiia OLEAE, vol. 9, no. 1 (1872): col. 31-33; Protokoly chetvertogo zasedaniia Kommissii po obsuzhdeniiu programmy i plana Moskovskogo tsentral'nogo politekhnicheskogo muzeia (Moscow, 1874), 1-4. On Popov, see Russkii biograficheskii slovar', 14:561-65.

27. RGIA, f. 733, op. 142, d. 530, 11. 11-13 (“Ob uchrezhdenii muzeia prikladnykh znanii“); RGIA, f. 1263, op. 1, st. 475, d. 3598,11. 13-25 (“Osobyi zhurnal Komiteta ministrov po predstavleniiu Ministra finansov ob uchrezhdenii Moskovskogo muzeia prikladnykh znanii,” 1872).

28. On Isakov, see Russkii biograficheskii sbvar', 8:143-44; Entsiklopedicheskii slovar' Brokgauza iEfrona, 86 vols. (Moscow, 1890-1907), 25:363.

29. RGIA, f. 733, op. 142, d. 466a, 11. 46-47, 157-58 (“Ob ustroistve v Moskve Politekhnicheskoi vystavki i Politekhnicheskogo muzeia“); RGIA, f. 934, op. 2, d. 158,11. 1-2 (G. E. Shchurovskii to P. P. Durnovo, 19 November 1870); Bogdanov, Piatidesiatiletie, 7; “Moskovskaia Politekhnicheskaia vystavka,” Moskovskie vedomosti, no. 115 (9 May 1872): 4.

30. GARF, f. 109, 1 eks., d. 32 (1870), 11. 15-15ob.; Protokoly zasedanii OLEAE, in Izvestiia OLEAE, vol. 9, no. 1 (1872): 38; Protokoly zasedanii Komiteta po ustroistvu Politekhnicheskoi vystavki, 1:17. See also N. V Nikitin, “Otchet o proizvedennom po porucheniiu Imperatorskogo obshchestva liubitelei estestvoznaniia osmotra zagranichnykh muzeev,” in Materialy, 1:30-49, esp. 30-31; “Iz Moskvy,” Golos, no. 192 (13July 1871): 2, no. 256 (16 September 1871): 1, and no. 40 (9 June 1872): 1; VestnikMoskovskoiPolitekhnicheskoi vystavki, no. 29 (1872): 2, no. 31 (1872): 3, no. 32 (1872): 3, and no. 85 (1872): 2.

31. Protokoly zasedanii Komiteta po ustroistvu Politekhnicheskoi vystavki, 1:8-9, 31 and 2:5-11, 31, 135-37. See also Doklad chlenov Moskovskogo arkhitekturnogo obshchestva N. A. Shokhina i N. V. Nikitina o poezdke v Sankt Peterburg po delu organizatsii Arkhitekturnogo otdela Politekhnicheskoi vystavki (Moscow, n.d.); Kirichenko, Evgeniia I., “K voprosu o poreformennykh vystavkakh Rossii kak vyrazhenii istoricheskogo svoeobraziia arkhitektury vtoroi poloviny XIX v.” in Sternin, G. Iu., Khudozhestvennye protsessy v russkoi kul'ture vtoroi poloviny XlXveka (Moscow, 1984), 83–136 Google Scholar, esp. 119.1 am grateful to Katia Dianina for alerting me to this source.

32. TsIAM, f. 227 (Muzei prikladnykh znanii), op. 2, d. 6, II. 1, 138-39; Protokoly zasedanii OLEAE, in Izvestiia OLEAE, vol. 3, no. 2 (1886): col. 273; Protokoly zasedanii Komiteta po ustroistvu Politekhnicheskoi vystavki, 1:17. For a list of donors, see Obshchee obozrenie Moskovskoi Politekhnicheskoi vystavki (Moscow, 1872), 1-58.

33. Protokoly zasedanii Komiteta po ustroistvu Politekhnicheskoi vystavki, 2:6; Protokoly zasedaniia OLEAE, in Izvestiia OLEAE, vol. 9, no. 1 (1872): 32; “Doklad Komissii ob ustroistve,“ 6; Bogdanov, Piatidesiatiletie, 14.

34. Golos, no. 147 (29 May 1871): 3. See also Moskovskie vedomosti, no. 131 (27 May 1872): 2, and no. 132 (28 May 1872): 2; and Vestnik Moskovskoi Politekhnicheskoi vystavki, no. 1 (1872): 2. A Moscow guidebook prominendy featured maps of die exposition: V. A. Dolgorukov, Putevoditel’ po Moskve i ee okrestnostiam (Moscow, 1872).

35. Moskovskie vedomosti, no. 113 (7 May 1872): 3; Vestnik Moskovskoi Politekhnicheskoi vystavki, no. 15 (1872): 2, no. 28 (1872): 2, and no. 32 (1872): 3.

36. Cited passages in “Torzhestvennoe otkrytie Politekhnicheskoi vystavki,” hvestiia OLEAE, vol. 10, no. 2 (1874): ix-xi; and “Rech’ o zadachakh muzeia prikladnykh znaniia, proiznesennaia pri otkrytii muzeia 30 noiabria 1872 g.,” in Moskovskii muzei prikladnykh znanii, Materialy, 1:61. See also Vestnik Moskovskoi Politekhnicheskoi vystavki, nos. 22, 31, 37 (1872). Opened as a trade school for orphans in 1839, the Imperial Technical School became well known in Russia for combining theoretical knowledge with practical training. Delia-Vos developed die first systematic program of workshop instruction. See Pamiati Viktora KarlovichaDella-Vos (Moscow, 1897); Russkii biograficheskii slovar', 6:192-94.

37. Gobs, no. 41 (lOJune 1872): 3; VestnihMoskovskoiPolitekhnicheskoi vystavki, nos. 37, 39-43, 45-46, 48, 81-84 (1872); Moskovskie vedomosti, no. 151 (17June 1872): 3.

38. Solov'ev, S. M., “Znachenie Petra Velikogo vo vsekh otrasliakh ego raznoobraznoi deiatel'nosti,” hvestiia OLEAE, vol. 10, no. 2 (1874): ii–iv Google Scholar; Gobs, no. 41 (10 June 1872): 3. In an expanded version of his banquet address, a series of public lectures on Peter the Great, Solov'ev emphasized Peter's role as teacher of the nation. S. M. Solov'ev, “Politekhnicheskaia vystavka i 200-letnii iubilei Petra Velikogo,” hvestiia OLEAE, vol. 9, no. 1 (1872): 36. See also Richard Wormian, Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy, 2 vols. (Princeton, 2000), 2:123-24.

39. Vestnik Moskovskoi Politekhnicheskoi vystavki, no. 4 (1872): 1.

40. Moskovskie vedomosti, no. 116 (11 May 1872): 1, no. 143 (9 June 1872): 4, no. 145 (11 June, 1872): 2, and no. 152 (18 June 1872): 2-3; Vestnik Moskovskoi Politekhnicheskoi vystavki, nos. 10-12, 68, 76, 99, 115—16 (1872). As I. L. Zhuravskaia points out, however, the modern looking glass and iron structure incorporated the traditional head-dress motif (kokoshnik) in the design of the arches. See I. L. Zhuravskaia, “K istorii Politekhnicheskoi vystavki v Moskve,” in V L. Egorov, ed., Istoricheskii muzei: Entsiklopediia otechestvmnoi istorii i kul'tury (Moscow, 1995): 11.

41. Golos, no. 39 (1872): 3; Moskovskievedomosti, no. 145 (11 June 1872): 2 - 3. Several articles were devoted to the Sevastopol’ section. See Moskovskie vedomosti, no. 116 (11 May 1872): 1, no. 152 (18June 1872): 2, no. 163 (29June 1872): 3, and no. 233 (18 September 1872): 2 - 3. The glorification of Sevastopol’ recalled the Moscow merchants’ extravagant honor of the Sevastopol’ defenders upon their return in 1856. See Owen, Capitalism and Politics, 31, 35. The Sevastopol’ section eventually became the basis for the Imperial Historical Museum in Red Square. See Protokoly zasedanii OLEAE, in Izvestiia OLEAE, vol. 14 (1874): col. 33; and A. M. Razgon, “Rossiiskii istoricheskii muzei: Istoriia ego osnovaniia i deiatel'nosti, 1872-1917,” Ocherki istorii muzeinogo dela v Rossii, vol. 2 (I960): 224-99.

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44. A description of the Technology Pavilion, including the sections for photography and applied physics, may be found in Vestnik Moskovskoi Politekhnicheskoi vystavki, nos. 34, 53, 55, 95-97, 102, 110, 117, 122, 126-27, 130, 134, 137, 140, 142, 144, 149 (1872); descriptions of the postal section may be found in nos. 3,63,87,89,116,124,147,150 (1872) and of the Turkestan pavilion in nos. 5, 105, 149 (1872).

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55. Auerbach, Great Exhibition, 10, 94, 108, 111; Greenhalgh, Ephemeral Vistas, 29, 145.

56. The official name of the congress was Pervyi Vserossiiskii s“ezd narodnykh uchitelei i inspektorov narodnykh uchilishch. More material on the educational function of the exposition can be found in Protokoly zasedanii Komiteta po ustroistvu Politekhnicheskoi vystavki, 1:28,114; and in Vestnik MoskovskoiPolitekhnicheskoi vystavki, nos. 22, 69-70, 72-73, 75-77, 79-81 (1872). See also Moskovskie vedomosti, no. 129 (5 May 1872): 3, no. 142 (8 June 1872): 3, and no. 167 (4 July 1872): 2; and Golos, no. 96 (4 August 1872): 2. An example of a teacher's reaction is K. Chekhovich, “Otchet po komandirovke na Politekhnicheskuiu vystavku v Moskve 1872 g.,” Tsirkuliarpo Vilenskomu uchebnomu okrugu, no. 11 (1872): 1-27. The “discovering America” quote is from Marietta Shaginian, Pervaia Vserossiiskaia: Romankhronika (Moscow, 1965), 38. Shaginian builds her historical novel about the exposition around the fact that one of the delegates to the teachers’ courses was a school inspector from Simbirsk, Il'ia Ul'ianov, Lenin's father. Technical and vocational education occupied a prominent position at the other major congress held at the exposition, the Manufacturing Congress.

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58. Protokoly zasedanii Komiteta po ustroistvu Politekhnicheskoi vystavki, 2:8. Accounts of the planning sessions may be found in TsIAM, f. 227, op. 2, d. 28 (“Perepiska s Ministerstvom narodnogo prosveshcheniia ob organizatsii pri Politekhnicheskom vystavke otdela popecheniia o rabochikh i remeslennikov i narodnogo teatra“), 11. 26-31; and GARF, f. 109, 3 eks. (1872), d. 94,11. 1-6.

59. Quoted in Vestnik Moskovskoi Politekhnicheskoi vystavki, no. 73 (1872): 3. See also “Doklad Komissii ob ustroistve,” 2, 6; Naumov, “Po povodu predpolagaemoi Politekhnicheskoi vystavki,” 161.

60. Quoted passage in TsIAM, f. 16, op. 25, d. 116 (“Ob ustroistve Politekhnicheskoi vystavki“), vol. 2,11. 13-16. See also TsIAM, f. 227, op. 2, d. 28,11. 115-117ob.; and GARF, f. 109, 3 eks. (1872), d. 94,11. 10-11, 52-53, 79-81.

61. TsIAM, f. 227, op. 2, d. 28, 11. 20-22; Vestnik Moskovskoi Politekhnicheskoi vystavki, no. 4 (1872): 1. For more on the popular theater movement at the exposition, see Thurston, Gary, The Popular Theatre Movement in Russia, 1862-1919 (Evanston, 1998), 10, 54–57 Google Scholar; Swift, Eugene Anthony, Popular Theater and Society in Tsarist Russia (Berkeley, 2002)Google Scholar; and Frame, Murray, School for Citizens: Theatre and Civil Society in Imperial Russia (New Haven, 2006)Google Scholar. Louise McReynolds samples other late-imperial leisure in Russia at Play: Leisure Activities at the End of the Tsarist Era (Ithaca, 2003).

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67. Just before the official closing, attendance was 30,180 on August 27; 23,862 on August 28; and 37,579 on August 29. See two stories about the closing of the exposition and about the final report of the exposidon submitted to OLEAE in Moskovskie vedomosti, no. 272 (1 October 1872): 1-2 and no. 304 (1 December 1872): 3-4. On the Imperial Historical Museum, see Razgon, “Rossiiskii istoricheskii muzei“; and Dianina, “A Nation on Display,” chap. 7, pp. 38-58.

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69. Bogdanov, Piatidesiatiletie, 45. The Russian government may have been less singular in this regard than commonly thought. Long ago Tocqueville, Alexis de opined that “Everywhere at the head of a new undertaking, you see the government in France.” Democracy in America, trans, and eds., Mansfield, Harvey and Winthrop, Delba (Chicago, 2000), 2:489.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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71. Such rhetoric was pervasive. One can find it in the minutes of the meetings of OLEAE and of the exposition planning committee. A good example is A. P. Bogdanov and I. Beliaev, “O tseli i kharaktere Politekhnicheskoi vystavki,” and Viktor Della-Vos, “Po povodu Politekhnicheskoi vystavki,” in Protokoly zasedanii Komiteta po ustroistvu Politekhnicheskoi vystavki, 1:18-23; “Protokoly chastnogo sobraniia chlenov Komiteta po ustroistvu Politekhnicheskoi vystavki 17go oktiabria 1870 g.,” in Protokoly zasedanii Komiteta po ustroistvu Politekhnicheskoi vystavki, 2:7-11.

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