Sinai, Byzantium, Russia : Orthodox art from the sixth to the twentieth century

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Cover Sinai at the Hermitage The Saint Catherine Foundation and the Monastery of St Catherine The Exhibition at the State Hermitage Museum Sinai, Byzantium and Russia Byzantine art and the Holy Land Sinai: the construction of a sacred landscape Byzantium The age of Justinian, founder of the Monastery of St Catherine at Mount Sinai. Byzantium, 6th-8th centuries The Macedonian Dynasty, 867-1055 The Comneni and the Angeli, 1055-1204 Georgia, 9th-17th centuries The Palaeologi, 1261-1453 Post-Byzantine art, 15th-17th centuries Sinai Topography and saints of Sinai The cult of St Catherine in Russia Byzantine icons of the 10th-13th centuries from the Monastery of St Catherine at Mount Sinai Russia The grand princes and tsars, 12th-16th centuries The reign of Romanov dynasty in the 17th century The reign of Peter the Great The rule of the empresses in the 18th century The reign of Tsar Alexander I (1801-1825) The reign of Tsar Nicholas I (1825-1855) Reign of Tsars Alexander II and Alexander III Reign of Tsar Nicholas II; 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty Exhibitions Bibliography Glossary