Exhibition Acknowledgments
The exhibition Russia Engages the World, 1453-1825 was curated
by:
Edward Kasinec, Slavic and Baltic Division, The New York Public Library
Robert H. Davis, Jr., Slavic and Baltic Division, The New York Public Library
Cynthia Hyla Whittaker, Baruch College and the Graduate Center/The City
University of New York
The curators wish to thank the financial supporters of the exhibition, and the Trustees and Administration of The New York Public Library.
Any exhibition of this scale, scope, and complexity involves many hands and minds over a long period of time. The curators are profoundly grateful to the many staff members of The New York Public Library whose efforts made this exhibition come to life.
We are much in the debt of our academic advisors: Edward Allworth, Elena Barkhatova, James Cracraft, Janis Kreslins, Sr., Janis Kreslins, Jr., John Ma, Marshall Poe, Marc Raeff, Irina Reyfman, Scott Ruby, Svatopluk Soucek, and Richard Wortman. Special kudos are due to Stephen Saitas, the exhibition designer. We take particular pleasure in acknowledging the special work of volunteer researchers Lydia Gladkova, Ania Kayaloff, Elena Kogan, and Galina Zoueva.
We are also grateful for the assistance of Michael Brainerd and Barbara
Niemczyk and their staff at CEC International Partners, and of Stuart Gibson
of the American Friends of the State Hermitage Museum. Finally, we thank
the following for their generosity in lending items from their collections:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art; A La Vieille Russie; The American Numismatic
Society, New York; Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri–Columbia;
and three private collectors.
Website Acknowledgments
Considerable planning and Library staff effort went into the production
of this website. Funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities
enabled numerous images to be digitized, and to contract with consultants
Future Phase Computer Systems to provide planning documents for development
of the website. Early on, an advisory group of educators, Jennifer Suri
of Stuyvesant High School, Dr. Ryland Clarke of the Collegiate School, and
especially Nathaniel Knight of Seton Hall University, helped define the
educational goals of the website. Cynthia Hyla Whittaker, her student Marina
Vishnepolskaya, and scholars Edward Allworth, Janis Kreslins, Sr., Janis
Kreslins, Jr., John Ma, Marc Raeff, and Svatopluk Soucek all generously
contributed their time and expertise in Russian and world history to this
endeavor.
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