Stephen M. Norris is Walter E. Havighurst Professor of Russian History and Director of the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies at Miami University (OH), USA. He is the author and editor of seven books, including A War of Images: Russian Popular Prints, Wartime Culture, and National Identity, 1812-1945 (2008) and Blockbuster History in the New Russia: Movies, Memory, Patriotism (2012).

• List of Illustrations1. History on Canvas2. Peter the Great and the Thunderbolt of Modern Russianness3. Kievan Rus' and Russian Historical Imaginings4. Baptizing Rus', Christianizing Russia5. Russian Conquests, Russia's Empire6. Bogatyrs and the Defense of the Motherland7. Myths and Memories in Paint8. The Long Lives of the History Paintings

Stephen M. Norris is Walter E. Havighurst Professor of Russian History and Director of the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies at Miami University (OH), USA. He is the author and editor of seven books, including A War of Images: Russian Popular Prints, Wartime Culture, and National Identity, 1812-1945 (2008) and Blockbuster History in the New Russia: Movies, Memory, Patriotism (2012).

• List of Illustrations1. History on Canvas2. Peter the Great and the Thunderbolt of Modern Russianness3. Kievan Rus' and Russian Historical Imaginings4. Baptizing Rus', Christianizing Russia5. Russian Conquests, Russia's Empire6. Bogatyrs and the Defense of the Motherland7. Myths and Memories in Paint8. The Long Lives of the History Paintings

Stephen M. Norris is Walter E. Havighurst Professor of Russian History and Director of the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies at Miami University (OH), USA. He is the author and editor of seven books, including A War of Images: Russian Popular Prints, Wartime Culture, and National Identity, 1812-1945 (2008) and Blockbuster History in the New Russia: Movies, Memory, Patriotism (2012).

• List of Illustrations1. History on Canvas2. Peter the Great and the Thunderbolt of Modern Russianness3. Kievan Rus' and Russian Historical Imaginings4. Baptizing Rus', Christianizing Russia5. Russian Conquests, Russia's Empire6. Bogatyrs and the Defense of the Motherland7. Myths and Memories in Paint8. The Long Lives of the History Paintings