This Powerpoint presents the early part of Alexander II's reign and 19th-century depictions of the Russian countryside, villages, and peasants, as well as some early 20th-century photographs.

1. Alexander II Yegor Boatman, 1849

2. Alexander II Ivan Tyurin

3. Alexander II and His Dog Milord Sergei Levitsky, 1870

4. Alexander II Konstantin Makovsky, 1881

5. The Coronation of Alexander II Vasily Timm, 1856

6. Coronation Prayer

7. Anointing of Alexander II

8. Homage of the Cossacks

9. Coronation Banquet

10. Announcement of the Coronation

11. The Emancipation Manifesto Read to the People Grigory Myasoyedov

12. Peasants and the Countryside in Russian Art

13. Peasant with a Slice of Bread Kapiton Zelentsev, 1820s

14. Winter Nikifor Krylov, 1827

15. Windy Day Mikhail Lebedev, 1833

16. Preparations for the Hunt , 1836 Evgraf Krendovsky

17. Alexei Venetsianov (1780-1847)

18. Peeling a Beet , 1820

19. Reapers , 1820s

20. Reaper , 1820s

21. Ploughing , 1820s

22. Summer Harvest , 1820s

23. Peasant Girl with a Calf , 1820s

24. Peasant Girl with Butterflies , 1820s

25. Threshing Barn , 1822

26. Girl with a Birch Basket , 1824

27. Sleeping Shepherd Boy , 1824

28. Old Peasant , 1824

29. Peasant Woman with Scythe and Rake , 1825

30. Peasant Putting on Bast Sandals , 1827

31. Peasant Children in a Field , 1820s

32. Grigory Soroka (1823-64)

33. Threshing Barn , 1840s

34. Peasant Boy

35. Vasily Perov (1834-82)

36. Religious Procession in the Village on Easter , 1861

37. Last Journey , 1865

38. Last Tavern by the Town Gates , 1868

39. Fyodor Vasiliev (1857-73)

40. After a Thunderstorm , 1868

41. Village Street , 1868

42. Village , 1869

43. Village

44. Peasant Courtyard , 1869

45. Morning in the Village , 1869

46. Logs by the Road , 1869

47. After the Rain , 1869

48. Landscape with Peasant Huts Near Petersburg , 1871

49. Thaw , 1871

50. Victor Vasnetsov (1848-1926)

51. Drinking Tea in a Tavern , 1874

52. Peasant with Pole , 1877

53. Peasant , 1883

54. Savka the Hunter , 1889

55. Ivan Kramskoi (1837-87)

56. Beekeeper , 1872

57. Woodsman , 1874

58. Old Peasant , 1874

59. Girl with Linen , 1874

60. Russian Girl in a Blue Scarf , 1882

61. Peasant Holding a Bridle , 1883

62. Ivan Shishkin (1832-98)

63. In a Grove , 1864

64. Landscape with Hunter , 1867

65. In a Grove , 1869

66. Midday Near Moscow , 1869

67. Willow Lit Up by the Sun , 1870s

68. Forest Landscape with Herons , 1870

69. Gathering Mushrooms , 1870

70. Forest , 1872

71. Landscape with a Woman , 1872

72. Fallen Tree , 1875

73. Rye Field , 1878

74. Forest Expanse , 1884

75. Gathering Storm , 1884

76. Misty Morning , 1885

77. Morning in a Pine Forest , 1889

78. Winter , 1890

79. Rain in an Oak Forest , 1891

80. Alexei Savrasov (1830-97)

81. Winter Night , 1869

82. Winter Road , 1870s

83. The Rooks Have Come , 1871

84. End of Summer on the Volga , 1873

85. Country Road , 1873

86. Spring Day , 1873

87. Provincial Cottage in Spring , 1878

88. Early Spring Thaw , 1880s

89. Sea of Mud , 1894

90. Grigory Myasoyedov (1834-1911)

91. Zemstvo Having Lunch , 1872

92. Harvest Mowers , 1887

93. Ilya Repin (1844-1930)

94. River Bank , 1877

95. Shy Peasant , 1877

96. Peasant with the Evil Eye , 1877

97. Isaac Levitan (1860-1900)

98. Sunny Day in Spring , 1877

99. Autumn Road in a Village , 1877

100. Village in Winter , 1878

101. Oak , 1880

102. Barns , 1880s

103. House with Broom Trees , 1880s

104. Village on the Bank of a River , 1880s

105. Forest in Spring , 1882

106. First Green , 1883

107. Evening in a Field , 1883

108. Sunny Day , 1884

109. Golden Autumn in the Village , 1889

110. Spring Flood , 1897

111. Vasily Maximov (1844-1911)

112. Sorcerer at a Peasant Wedding , 1875

113. Everything Is in the Past , 1889

114. Mikhail Nesterov (1862-1942)

115. Visiting the Sorcerer for a Love Potion , 1888

116. The Vision of Young Bartholomew , 1891

117. Konstantin Korovin (1861-1939)

118. Early Spring , 1870s

119. Poor Shot , 1880s

120. Winter , 1911

121. Valentin Serov (1865-1911)

122. Peasant Woman in a Cart ,1896

123. In Winter , 1898

124. Peasant Woman with a Horse , 1898

125. Haystack , 1901

126. Igor Grabar (1871-1960)

127. Winter, Rook Nests , 1904

128. March Snow , 1904

129. Winter , 1906

130. Boris Kustodiev (1878-1927)

131. Self-Portrait as a Hunter , 1905

132. Village Boys , 1905

133. Harvest , 1914

134. Other Artists

135. Village Wedding Andrei Ryabushkin, 1880s

136. In the Field Mikhail Klod, 1872

137. Nikolai Ge Old Peasant , 1880s

138. Native Land Apollinary Vasnetsov, 1886

139. First Snow Vasily Polenov, 1891

140. Birch Grove Arkhip Kuindzhi, 1901

141. Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky Photographs, 1909-10

142. Harvesting Hay

143. The Ural Mountains

144. On the Sim River

145. Ivan Turgenev Vasily Perov, 1872

146. Ivan Turgenev Ilya Repin, 1879