Visualizing Russia: Fedor Solntsev and Crafting a National Past (Russian History and Culture)

Abstract

All of the authors in this volume owe a great debt to Edward Kasi-nec, who served as curator of the Slavic and Baltic Division of the New York Public Library from 1984 to its closing in 2008, and to his second-in-command, Robert H. Davis, Jr. We all looked on in awe as they brought new spirit to the division with their conviviality and energy and their constant projects, grants, exhibitions, publications, and symposia. We all gladly contributed our time to these worthwhile endeavors, recognizing that they once again made The New York Pub-lic Library a bustling center of Slavic scholarship. We regret the sud-den abolishment of the division just at the time when it seemed to be thriving as it never had in its existence of over a century of serving the public.