This checklist is a record of the items, in order and by section, on view
in the exhibition Russia Engages the World, 1453–1825 (October 3, 2003–January 31, 2004).
The World: Engaging Asia
Russia’s Peter the Great and His City
The World: Engaging Northern and Central Europe
The World: Engaging the Muslim Empires
The World: Engaging Asia
The items in this section underscore the cultural exchanges that were taking
place between Russia and Asia from the mid-17th century to the first quarter
of the 19th century.
Russians at the Gate of “Supreme Harmony,” Forbidden City, Beijing
Reproduction from:
Evert Ysbrants Ides (1657–1708/9), also known as Adam Brand
Three Years Travel from Moscow Over-land to China
London: W. Freeman et al., 1706
NYPL, Rare Books Division
Chinese Imperial Largesse
List of imperial edicts issued by Emperors Shun-zhi (1638–1661) and Kang-xi
(1654–1722) of China
Manuscript scroll and woven textile
[Beijing], 1642–89
NYPL, Manuscripts and Archives Division
China Receives a Russian Ambassador in the Forbidden City
Georg Johann Unverzagt (fl. 1719–25), engraver
Die Gesandschafft Ihro Käyserl. Majest. von Gross-Russland an den sinesischen
Käyser [The Embassy of His Imperial Majesty of Great Russia to the Chinese
Emperor]
Lübeck: Johann Christian Schmidt, 1725
NYPL, General Research Division
Chinese Porcelain
Porcelain jar
China, Kang-xi Period (1662–1722)
NYPL, Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
China Receives a Russian Ambassador at the Great Wall
Evert Ysbrants Ides (1657–1708/9), also known as Adam Brand
Three Years Travels from Moscow Over-land to China
London: W. Freeman et al., 1706
NYPL, Rare Books Division
China’s Language and Culture in Russia
Theophilus Siegfried Bayer (1694–1738)
De horis sinicis [Concerning Chinese Calendars]
St. Petersburg: Academia Scientiarum, 1735
NYPL, Asian and Middle Eastern Division
The English Look at China and Russia
William Coxe (1747–1828)
Les nouvelles découvertes des Russes, entre l’Asie et l’Amérique, avec
l’histoire de la conquête de la Sibérie & du commerce des Russes &
des Chinois [The New Russian Discoveries Between Asia and America, with
the History of the Conquest of Siberia and of Russian and Chinese Commerce]
Paris: Hôtel de Thou, 1781
NYPL, Rare Books Division
Europe Covets Chinese Porcelain
Porcelain plate decorated in underglaze blue
China, Kang-xi Period (1662–1722)
Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Department of Asian Art, Rodgers
Fund, 1925 (25.64.5)
The Chinese Look at Russians in the Age of Catherine
Fuheng (d. 1770)
Huang Qing zhi gong tu [A Collection of (Portraits of) Foreigners
of Different Nations Who Had Presented Gifts to the Emperors of the Early
Qing Dynasty]
[Beijing: Nei fu, Qing, between 1761 and 1805]
NYPL, Spencer Collection
The Japanese Depict Russia’s Peoples
Roshia Zokkoku Jinbutsu Zu [Picture Book of People in the Territories
of Russia]
Edo, 1845
NYPL, Spencer Collection
Japan Encounters Russia
Petr Ivanovich Rikord (1776–1855)
Zapiski flota kapitana Rikorda o plavanii ego k Iaponskim beregam v
1812 i 1813 godakh, i o snosheniiakh s Iapontsami [Notes of Fleet Captain
Rikord concerning his sailing to Japan’s shores in 1812 and 1813, and about
his relations with the Japanese]
St. Petersburg: Morskaia Tipografiia, 1816
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
A Russian View of the World’s Ports and Resources
A view of the shores of Nagasaki, from:
Ivan Fedorovich Kruzenshtern (1770–1846), also known as Adam Johann von
Krusenstern
Puteshestvie vokrug sveta v 1803, 4, 5 i 1806 godakh [Voyage Round
the World in 1803, 1804, 1805 & 1806]
St. Petersburg: Morskaia Tipografiia, 1809–13
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
A Russian View of the World’s Ports and Resources
Ivan Fedorovich Kruzenshtern (1770–1846), also known as Adam Johann von
Krusenstern
Voyage Round the World in the Years 1803, 1804, 1805 & 1806
London: Printed by C. Roworth for J. Murray, 1813
NYPL, General Research Division
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