title: Levitt, Marcus C. The Visual Dominant in Eighteenth-Century Russia (review)
abstract: Slavonic and East European Review, 94, 2, 2016 Reviews Levitt, Marcus C. The Visual Dominant in Eighteenth-Century Russia. Northern Illinois University Press, DeKalb, IL, 2011. xii + 362 pp. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliographic references. Index. $49.00. In his groundbreaking new book, Levitt pays special homage to the enthusiastic response that the so-called ‘Age of Enlightenment’ received in eighteenthcentury Russia. He summarizes such enthusiasm by what he terms to have been ‘the visual domina
journal: The Slavonic and East European Review