Published by Bloomsbury Academic, Kivelson's new book is richly illustrated with 120 arresting, little-known images. It considers how those images functioned as active agents for and against empire. Images and the Making of the Russian Empire moves out from the throne room of the Kremlin to engravers' workshops of Chernihiv and Kyiv, to the Amur River basin, to the icy peaks of Kamchatka, wherever imagery and empire intersected – which was everywhere.
