| Description |
1 online resource (426 p.) |
| Series |
Russian History and Culture |
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Russian history and culture (Leiden, Netherlands) ; volume 24.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Conventions -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Visual Culture and the History of British-Russian Relations -- Part I Art and Diplomacy -- Chapter 2 Art and Acculturation: Sir Godfrey Kneller's Portraits of Petr Potemkin (1682) and Peter the Great (1698) -- Chapter 3 Catherine II, the Cathcarts, and Russian Anglophilia -- Chapter 4 Prince Grigorii Potemkin, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and Anglo-Russian Artistic Diplomacy in the Age of Catherine the Great -- Part II The Agency of Gifts |
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Chapter 5 "Give with One Hand and Take with the Other:" British Diplomatic Gifts to Russia, 1795-97 -- Chapter 6 Courtly Splendour and Cultural Identity: Nineteenth-century Russian Imperial Gifts for the British Royal Family -- Chapter 7 Alfred, Lord Tennyson and an Imperial Russian Gift -- Chapter 8 Fabergé Hardstone in Imperial Gifting from Russia to England -- Part III Travels and Dialogues -- Chapter 9 Gavriil Skorodumov and James Walker: Printmaking and British-Russian Relations in the Late Eighteenth Century |
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Chapter 10 "Smart Travels:" The Encounters of Grand Duke Nicholas with British Art and Artists, 1816-17 -- Chapter 11 Tsar Alexander I, Sir Thomas Lawrence, and George Dawe: Masculinity and the Development of the St Petersburg Military Gallery -- Part IV Dynasties and Domesticities -- Chapter 12 The Wedding of Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and Maria Alexandrovna of Russia in 1874 and its Visual Commemoration -- Chapter 13 Images of Nicholas II: (Mis-)interpreting the Last Tsar -- Index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed May 2nd, 2023) |
| Subject |
Cultural diplomacy -- Russia -- History
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Cultural diplomacy -- Great Britain -- History
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Diplomatic gifts -- Russia -- History
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Diplomatic gifts -- Great Britain -- History
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Cultural diplomacy
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Diplomatic gifts
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Diplomatic relations
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| SUBJECT |
Russia -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain
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Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Russia
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| Subject |
Great Britain
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Russia
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hardiman, Louise, editor
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| ISBN |
3657793763 |
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9783657793761 |
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