Esther M. Lederberg
Vasily Perov

  1. What a Russian Orthodox priest saw.
  2. The Russian Family.
  3. Russian Children.
  4. Russian Governess (style of what Radishchev saw).
  5. Life in the City.
  6. Pilgrims.
  7. Sleeping Children.
  8. Hunters in the Countryside (the usual exaggeration).
  9. Orphans in the Countryside.
  10. An Orphan in the City.
  11. An Older Couple in the City.
  12. The Usual way Police Solve Crimes in the Countryside.
  13. The minor official (Chinovnik).
  14. How the Blind Survive in the City.
  15. How the Impoverished learn to Read.
  16. The Police in the Countryside learn about their Society.
  17. Peasants view the Future: Railways.
  18. Peasants turn to the Past.
  19. Peasant Hut.
  20. Peasant Marriage.
  21. A Kirghizian Convict.
  22. To be in a Russian Jail.
  23. The state of Mental Health in Russia.
  24. Praedial Labor in Riazan.
  25. A Peasant Funeral.
  26. Peasant Religion: Paganism (beloved Snegurochka and Baba Yaga, Ivan Kupala).
  27. Finding a place to Live.
  28. One needs Water even in the Winter in the City.

Perov's view of Russian society is unusual! Perov departed from previous norms in art. Perov was less centered upon aristocrats and nobles. Perov was not focused upon the wealthy. Perov looked at the people he encountered in the normal environment. Perov saw poverty and ignorance. Perov saw the imprisoned. Perov saw the blind. People did not like what Perov saw: their environment. Perov was one of the first narodniks (populists). Perov followed what Russian writer Aleksander Nikolayevich Radishchev saw, in "Journey From Petersburg to Moscow" (1790). Perov provided a visual record of what the writer Nikolai Nekrasov saw in "Petersburg: The Physiology of a City".

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