List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration and Spelling A Frozen State: Physical, Psychological, and Cultural Resonances of Russian Cold Alison K. Smith, Tricia Starks, and Matthew P. Romaniello 1. Was Russia Cold? Experiencing Russia's Climate in the Early Modern Era Matthew P. Romaniello 2. No Way through the Ice: The First Russian Expeditions to Find a Northeastern Passage in the Eighteenth Century Kristina Küntzel-Witt 3. The Mysteries of Fatherland Geography: Siberia, Cold and Warm, in the Novels of Ivan Kalashnikov Mark A. Soderstrom 4.

The Cold Empire in the Rainforest: Russians' Survival in Lingít Aaní Michael Kraemer 5. Nature's Ice House: Frozen Mammoths and Siberian Cold Rebecca J.H. Woods 6. Between Shivering and the Sublime: The Visuality of Cold in Late Imperial Russian Landscape Painting Louise A. Hardiman 7. The Other Joy of the Russe: Ledianye Gory (Ice Hills) In Tsarist Russia Alison K. Smith 8.

"The cold and snow reign": Cold and Punishment in Late Imperial Russia Sarah Badcock 9. Karelian Nature, Emotional Belonging, and the Missing Myth of the North Tamara Polyakova 10. Golod i kholod: Hunger and Cold in Late Imperial and Early Soviet Russia Rebecca Manley 11. Cold and Time in Yuri Rytkheu's A Dream of Polar Fog: An Ecosemiotic Approach Katherine Bowers 12. From the Epiphany Ceremony to a New Russian Masculinity Tricia Starks 13. Cold Ruins: Longing for the Soviet Sublime in an Arctic Circle Ghost Town Marisa Karyl Franz List of Contributors Index.