Alison K. Smith is a professor of history at the University of Toronto.Tricia Starks is a distinguished professor of history and director of the University of Arkansas Humanities Center.Matthew P. Romaniello is a professor and chair of history at Weber State University.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments Note on Transliteration and SpellingA Frozen State: Physical, Psychological, and Cultural Resonances of Russian ColdAlison K. Smith, Tricia Starks, and Matthew P. Romaniello1. Was Russia Cold? Experiencing Russia’s Climate in the Early Modern EraMatthew P. Romaniello2. No Way through the Ice: The First Russian Expeditions to Find a Northeastern Passage in the Eighteenth CenturyKristina Küntzel-Witt3. The Mysteries of Fatherland Geography: Siberia, Cold and Warm, in the Novels of Ivan KalashnikovMark A. Soderstrom4. The Cold Empire in the Rainforest: Russians’ Survival in Lingít AaníMichael Kraemer5. Nature’s Ice House: Frozen Mammoths and Siberian ColdRebecca J.H. Woods6. Between Shivering and the Sublime: The Visuality of Cold in Late Imperial Russian Landscape PaintingLouise A. Hardiman7. The Other Joy of the Russe: Ledianye Gory (Ice Hills) In Tsarist RussiaAlison K. Smith 8. “The cold and snow reign”: Cold and Punishment in Late Imperial RussiaSarah Badcock9. Karelian Nature, Emotional Belonging, and the Missing Myth of the NorthTamara Polyakova10. Golod i kholod: Hunger and Cold in Late Imperial and Early Soviet RussiaRebecca Manley11. Cold and Time in Yuri Rytkheu’s A Dream of Polar Fog: An Ecosemiotic ApproachKatherine Bowers12. From the Epiphany Ceremony to a New Russian MasculinityTricia Starks13. Cold Ruins: Longing for the Soviet Sublime in an Arctic Circle Ghost TownMarisa Karyl FranzList of ContributorsIndex

Alison K. Smith is a professor of history at the University of Toronto.Tricia Starks is a distinguished professor of history and director of the University of Arkansas Humanities Center.Matthew P. Romaniello is a professor and chair of history at Weber State University.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments Note on Transliteration and SpellingA Frozen State: Physical, Psychological, and Cultural Resonances of Russian ColdAlison K. Smith, Tricia Starks, and Matthew P. Romaniello1. Was Russia Cold? Experiencing Russia’s Climate in the Early Modern EraMatthew P. Romaniello2. No Way through the Ice: The First Russian Expeditions to Find a Northeastern Passage in the Eighteenth CenturyKristina Küntzel-Witt3. The Mysteries of Fatherland Geography: Siberia, Cold and Warm, in the Novels of Ivan KalashnikovMark A. Soderstrom4. The Cold Empire in the Rainforest: Russians’ Survival in Lingít AaníMichael Kraemer5. Nature’s Ice House: Frozen Mammoths and Siberian ColdRebecca J.H. Woods6. Between Shivering and the Sublime: The Visuality of Cold in Late Imperial Russian Landscape PaintingLouise A. Hardiman7. The Other Joy of the Russe: Ledianye Gory (Ice Hills) In Tsarist RussiaAlison K. Smith 8. “The cold and snow reign”: Cold and Punishment in Late Imperial RussiaSarah Badcock9. Karelian Nature, Emotional Belonging, and the Missing Myth of the NorthTamara Polyakova10. Golod i kholod: Hunger and Cold in Late Imperial and Early Soviet RussiaRebecca Manley11. Cold and Time in Yuri Rytkheu’s A Dream of Polar Fog: An Ecosemiotic ApproachKatherine Bowers12. From the Epiphany Ceremony to a New Russian MasculinityTricia Starks13. Cold Ruins: Longing for the Soviet Sublime in an Arctic Circle Ghost TownMarisa Karyl FranzList of ContributorsIndex

Alison K. Smith is a professor of history at the University of Toronto.Tricia Starks is a distinguished professor of history and director of the University of Arkansas Humanities Center.Matthew P. Romaniello is a professor and chair of history at Weber State University.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments Note on Transliteration and SpellingA Frozen State: Physical, Psychological, and Cultural Resonances of Russian ColdAlison K. Smith, Tricia Starks, and Matthew P. Romaniello1. Was Russia Cold? Experiencing Russia’s Climate in the Early Modern EraMatthew P. Romaniello2. No Way through the Ice: The First Russian Expeditions to Find a Northeastern Passage in the Eighteenth CenturyKristina Küntzel-Witt3. The Mysteries of Fatherland Geography: Siberia, Cold and Warm, in the Novels of Ivan KalashnikovMark A. Soderstrom4. The Cold Empire in the Rainforest: Russians’ Survival in Lingít AaníMichael Kraemer5. Nature’s Ice House: Frozen Mammoths and Siberian ColdRebecca J.H. Woods6. Between Shivering and the Sublime: The Visuality of Cold in Late Imperial Russian Landscape PaintingLouise A. Hardiman7. The Other Joy of the Russe: Ledianye Gory (Ice Hills) In Tsarist RussiaAlison K. Smith 8. “The cold and snow reign”: Cold and Punishment in Late Imperial RussiaSarah Badcock9. Karelian Nature, Emotional Belonging, and the Missing Myth of the NorthTamara Polyakova10. Golod i kholod: Hunger and Cold in Late Imperial and Early Soviet RussiaRebecca Manley11. Cold and Time in Yuri Rytkheu’s A Dream of Polar Fog: An Ecosemiotic ApproachKatherine Bowers12. From the Epiphany Ceremony to a New Russian MasculinityTricia Starks13. Cold Ruins: Longing for the Soviet Sublime in an Arctic Circle Ghost TownMarisa Karyl FranzList of ContributorsIndex