Courtly Gifts and Cultural Diplomacy : : Art, Material Culture, and British-Russian Relations / / edited by Louise Hardiman.
“Courtly Gifts and Cultural Diplomacy” explores the history of British-Russian state relations from the perspective of art and material culture. This richly illustrated book presents manifold practices of courtly gift-giving and vivid case studies of British-Russian artistic diplomacy over the centu...
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| Superior document: | Russian History and Culture ; 24 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Paderborn : : Ferdinand Schöningh, Brill Deutschland,, 2022. ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Russian History and Culture ;
24. Schöningh and Fink Early Modern and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2022. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (426 pages) |
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Table of 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
- 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
- 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.