David Jackson is Professor of Russian and Scandinavian Art Histories at the School of Fine Art, History of Art, and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds

The book is well written. It reads easily, and this in itself might help to popularize the Wanderers. It can certainly be recommended as a readable popular survey or introduction.

• Introduction1. Academic autocracy and the artist’s burden 2. The challenge to the Academy and formation of the Wanderers3. The lower depths: images of the rural and urban peasantry4. The revolutionary’s tale: political themes5. Meritocracy: portraiture6. History painting: sedition and tradition7. Landscape painting: styles and ideologies8. The Slavic Revival9. Adapted allegiancesConclusionSelect bibliographyIndex

David Jackson is Professor of Russian and Scandinavian Art Histories at the School of Fine Art, History of Art, and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds

The book is well written. It reads easily, and this in itself might help to popularize the Wanderers. It can certainly be recommended as a readable popular survey or introduction.

• Introduction1. Academic autocracy and the artist’s burden 2. The challenge to the Academy and formation of the Wanderers3. The lower depths: images of the rural and urban peasantry4. The revolutionary’s tale: political themes5. Meritocracy: portraiture6. History painting: sedition and tradition7. Landscape painting: styles and ideologies8. The Slavic Revival9. Adapted allegiancesConclusionSelect bibliographyIndex

David Jackson is Professor of Russian and Scandinavian Art Histories at the School of Fine Art, History of Art, and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds

The book is well written. It reads easily, and this in itself might help to popularize the Wanderers. It can certainly be recommended as a readable popular survey or introduction.

• Introduction1. Academic autocracy and the artist’s burden 2. The challenge to the Academy and formation of the Wanderers3. The lower depths: images of the rural and urban peasantry4. The revolutionary’s tale: political themes5. Meritocracy: portraiture6. History painting: sedition and tradition7. Landscape painting: styles and ideologies8. The Slavic Revival9. Adapted allegiancesConclusionSelect bibliographyIndex