Courtly gifts and cultural diplomacy : art, material culture, and British-Russian relations / edited by Louise Hardiman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hardiman, Louise, editor.

E.J. Brill (Firm)

Series:

Russian history and culture (Leiden, Netherlands) ; volume 24.

Russian History and Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russia--Foreign relations--Great Britain.

Russia.

Great Britain--Foreign relations--Russia.

Great Britain.

Cultural diplomacy--Russia--History.

Cultural diplomacy.

Cultural diplomacy--Great Britain--History.

Diplomatic gifts--Russia--History.

Diplomatic gifts.

Diplomatic gifts--Great Britain--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (426 p.).

Other Title:

Art, material culture, and British-Russian relations

Place of Publication:

New York : BRILL, 2023.

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

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Leiden, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.

Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed May 2nd, 2023).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Hardiman, Louise Courtly Gifts and Cultural Diplomacy

ISBN:

9783657793761

3657793763

Publisher Number:

40032485974

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.