Introduction: An archaeology of vision -- Prolegomena: Making Russia visible -- The moment of the muses: Lomonosov's odes -- Bogovidenie: Orthodox vision and the odes -- The staging of the self -- Virtue must advertise: The ethics of vision -- The seen, the unseen, and the obvious -- The icon that started a riot -- The dialectic of vision in Radishchev's journey -- Conclusion: Russian culture as a mirage
