DATE: April 1-18, 2008.

EVENT: “Caricature and the 1905 Russian Revolution,” an exhibit at the University of Michigan, explores the public impact of poignant portrayals of a corrupt, cruel and reviled czarist government and entrenched aristocracy.

Materials on display include a range of original caricatures created during and in response to the 1905 Russian Revolution. Among the works are depictions ridiculing Czar Nicholas II, and renderings that challenge the official line of the reason for quelling public protests.

There is no charge to attend the exhibit and events.

Events include:

• 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 1?”Russian Caricatures of Tsar Nicolas II and the 1905 Russian Revolution: Coded Messages,” a lecture by Margaret Betz, history professor at the Savannah School of Art and Design

• 3 p.m. Wednesday, April 2?”Political Caricature and International Complications in Russia and 19th-century Europe,” a lecture by Robert Justin Goldstein, research associate at U-M’s Center for Russian and East European Studies.

PLACE: Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, Room 100, Ann Arbor.

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