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).
Russia’s Peter the Great and His City
The World: Engaging Northern and Central Europe
The World: Engaging the Muslim Empires
Russia’s Peter the Great and His City
The items in this section reflect the efforts of Peter the Great (r. 1682-1725)
to bring his realm up to the technological and cultural standards of western
European countries, his crowning achievement being St. Petersburg.
St. Petersburg, 1765: A Dutch Depiction
Widow of Josua Ottens
Nova ac verissima urbis St. Petersburg [A Recent and Most Accurate
Depiction of the City of St. Petersburg]
Amsterdam: Widow of J. Ottens, and Son, after 1765
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division, Bates-Pantuhoff Collection
St. Petersburg, 1718: An Early German Depiction
Johann Baptist Homann (1663–1724)
Topographische Vorstellung der neuen russischen Haupt-Residenz und See-Stadt
St. Petersburg [Topographic Presentation of the New Russian Royal Residence
and Seaport of St. Petersburg]
Nuremberg: Johann Baptist Homann, [1718]
NYPL, Map Division
The Russians Document a Victory
Aleksei Fedorovich Zubov (1682–1751)
Etching depicting the Russian naval victory over Sweden at Hangö (Gangut)
Head, July 27, 1714
St. Petersburg, 1717
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
Russian Absolutism and Its Apologist
Pravda voli monarshei vo opredelenii naslednika derzhavy svoei [The
Justice of the Monarch’s Will in Designating the Successor to His Realm]
Moscow: Moskovskaia Tipografiia, 1726
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
In Peter’s Own Hand
Letter signed by Peter the Great, giving safe conduct to the nobles Petr
Baranov and Ignat Kutashev to travel to the northern Russian city of Novgorod
[Russia?], 1707
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
Peter Travels to France
Medal commemorating Peter the Great’s visit to France. By Jean Duvivier
(1687–1761) and Michel (or Martin) Rög (1685?–1737?)
Bronze
France, 1717
The American Numismatic Society, New York (1951.109.1)
Russians Learn the Art of Fortification
Plan of a fortified camp from:
Baron Menno van Coehoorn (1634–1704)
Novoe krepostnoe stroenie na mokrom ili nizkom gorizonte [The New
Fortification on Wet or Low-lying Land]
Moscow: [Pechatnyi Dvor], 1710
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
Peter’s Triumph
Cornelius Cruys (1657–1727)
Nieuw pas-kaart boek [A New Book of Charts]
Amsterdam: Hendrick Doncker, [1703–4]
NYPL, Map Division
Russians Adopt Classical Science
Leontii Filippovich Magnitskii (1669–1739)
Arifmetika [Arithmetic]
Moscow, 1703
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
Russians Learn the Art of French Fortifications
François Blondel (1618–1686)
Novaia manera, ukrepleniiu gorodov [The New Manner of Fortifying
Cities]
Moscow: [Pechatnyi Dvor], 1711
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
Tsar Peter – A Russian Alexander the Great?
Quintus Curtius Rufus
Kniga Kvinta Kurtsia o delakh sodeianykh Aleksandra velikago tsaria Makedonskago
[The Book of Quintus Curtius on the Deeds Achieved by Alexander the Great,
King of Macedon]
Moscow: [Pechatnyi Dvor], 1711
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
A Scottish-Russian Lexicographer
Count Iakov Vilimovich Brius (Bruce) (1670–1735)
Kniga leksikon ili Sobranie rechei po Alfavitu s Rossiiskogo na Gollandskii
iazyk [A Lexicon Book (Dictionary), or, Collection of Phrases in Alphabetical
Order (translated) from Russian into the Dutch Language]
St. Petersburg, 1717
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
Russians Adopt a Classical Vocabulary
Fedor Polikarpovich Polikarpov-Orlov (ca. 1660–1731)
Leksikon treiazychnyi, sirech’ Rechenii slavenskikh, ellinogrecheskiikh
i latinskikh sokrovishche [A Trilingual Dictionary, that is, A Treasury
of Slavonic, Greek, and Latin Words]
Moscow: [Pechatnyi Dvor], 1704
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
Tsar Peter – A Russian Hercules?
Politikolepnaia Apotheosis dostokhvalnyia khrabrosti vserossiiskago Gerkulesa
… nashego tsaria i velikago kniazia Petra Alekseevicha … Po preslavnoi viktorii
… Na generalnoi batalii … pod Poltavoiu [A Glorious Apotheosis of the
Laudable Bravery of the All-Russian Hercules … Our Tsar and Grand Prince
Peter Alekseevich … on the Glorious Victory … at the Great Battle … near
Poltava]
[Moscow], 1709
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
The Tsar’s Apologist for War
Baron Petr Pavlovich Shafirov (1669–1739)
Razsuzhdenie kakie zakonnye prichiny ego tsarskoe velichestvo Petr Pervyi
… k nachatiiu voiny protiv Korola Karolia 12 Shvedskogo [v] 1700 godu imel
[A Discourse Concerning the Just Causes Which His Tsarist Majesty Peter
the First … Had for Beginning the War Against the Swedish King Charles XII
in the Year 1700]
St. Petersburg, 1717
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
Russian Bureaucracy Sets In
General’nyi reglament ili ustav [The General Regulation or Statute]
[Moscow: Sinodal’naia Tipografiia, 1725]
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
A Russian Academician Documents Ancient Neighbors
Theophilus Siegfried Bayer (1694–1738)
Historia regni Graecorum bactriani [A History of the Kingdom of the
Bactrian Greeks]
St. Petersburg: Academia Scientiarum, 1738
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
A Swiss Mathematician in Russia’s Academy
Leonhard Euler (1707–1783)
Tentamen novae theoriae musicae [An Investigation of New Music Theory]
St. Petersburg: Academia Scientiarum, 1739
NYPL, Science, Industry and Business Library, William Barclay Parsons Collection
Russia’s East Described
Gerhard Friedrich Müller (1705–1783)
Opisanie Sibirskago tsarstva [A Description of the Siberian Kingdom]
St. Petersburg: Imperatorskaia Akademiia Nauk, 1750
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
Russia’s Academic Elite and Their Periodical
Commentarii Academiae scientiarum imperialis petropolitanae … ad annum
1726 [Commentaries of the Imperial Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburg
… for the Year 1726]
St. Petersburg: Imperatorskaia Akademiia Nauk, 1728
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
A Russian Engraving of a Classic Fabulist
Planudes Maximus (“Aesop”) (ca. 1260–ca. 1310)
Zhitie ostroumnago Esopa [The Life of the Clever Aesop]
N.p., ca. 1750
NYPL, Spencer Collection
Paying to Have Beards
Beard-tax coin
Bronze
Russia, 1705
The American Numismatic Society, New York (1914.265.55)
A Scottish-Russian Studies Astrology
Kniga imenuemaia Briusovskoi Kalendar [The Book Known as the Brius’
(Bruce) Calendar]
[Moscow, ca. 1783]
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
Russians Educated in the Ways of Sin
After Ivan Andreevich Tessing (Jan Tessing) (d. 1701)
Zertsalo greshnago [A Mirror for the Sinner]
[Russia, late 18th–early 19th century]
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
Russia’s Old Capital, from an Italian Brush
Francesco Camporesi (1747–1831)
Three colored etchings of the Moscow Kremlin
N.p., ca. 1790
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
An Imperial Coin
Two rouble
Gold
Russia, ca. 1721
The American Numismatic Society, New York (1893.14.1099)
Tsar Peter’s Loyal Churchman and Apologist
Archbishop of Novgorod Feofan (Prokopovich) (1681–1736)
Istoriia Imperatora Petra Velikago ot rozhdeniia ego do Poltavskoi batalii
[A History of Emperor Peter the Great from His Birth to the Battle of
Poltava]
Moscow: Kompaniia Tipograficheskaia, 1788
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
Peter’s Images Collected
Fedor Ivanovich Dmitriev-Mamonov (1727–1805 )
Slava Rossii , ili Sobranie medalei del Petra Velikago [The
Glory of Russia, or, A Collection of Medals of Peter the Great]
[Moscow], 1770
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
Engraving a Classical St. Petersburg
Andrei Grigorevich Ukhtomskii (1779–1852 )
Sobranie fasadov , Ego Imperatorskim Velichestvom vysochaishe
aprobovannykh dlia chastnykh stroenii v gorodakh Rossiiskoi imperii [A
Collection of Facades Approved by His Imperial Majesty (Alexander I) for
Private Buildings in the Towns of the Russian Empire]
St. Petersburg, 1809
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
St. Petersburg’s Popular Types
Christian Gotthelf Schönberg (b. 1760) and Christian Gottfried Heinrich
Geissler (1770–1844)
St. Petersburgische Hausierer: Crieurs publics de St. Pétersbourg [St.
Petersburg’s Street Peddlers]
St. Petersburg: Carl Lissner, 1794
NYPL, Spencer Collection
Russia’s Swiss Architect
Luigi Rusca (1758–1822)
Recueil des Dessins de différens bâtiments, construits ŕ Saint-Pétersbourg
et dans l’intérieur de l’Empire Russie [A Collection of Drawings of
Various Buildings Constructed in St. Petersburg and in the Interior of the
Russian Empire]
St. Petersburg, 1810
NYPL, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs,
Art and Architecture Collection
Petersburg’s Classical Architecture
Hand-colored lithograph depicting the St. Petersburg Exchange
N.p., ca. 1825
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division, Bates-Pantuhoff Collection
Petersburg’s Majesty
“The Summer Palace, St. Petersburg,” engraving from:
Mikhail Ivanovich Makhaev (1716–1770)
Plan stolichnago goroda Sanktpeterburga [Plan of the Capital City
of St. Petersburg].
St. Petersburg: Imperatorskaia Akademiia Nauk, 1753
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division, Bates-Pantuhoff Collection
Petersburg’s Majesty
“The Anichkov Palace, St. Petersburg,” engraving from:
Mikhail Ivanovich Makhaev (1716–1770)
Plan stolichnago goroda Sanktpeterburga [Plan of the Capital City
of St. Petersburg]
St. Petersburg: Imperatorskaia Akademiia Nauk, 1753
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division, Bates-Pantuhoff Collection
Petersburg’s Imperial Expanse, from an English Brush
John Augustus Atkinson (1775–ca. 1833)
Panoramic View of St. Petersburg
London: J. A. Atkinson, [1805–7]
NYPL, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs,
Print Collection
Russian Conquests, 1734: A German Depiction
Ingermanlandiae seu Ingriae Novissima Tabula [The Most Up-to-date
Record of Ingermanland or Ingria]
Nuremberg: Heirs of Johann Baptist Homann, 1734
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division, Bates-Pantuhoff Collection
Petersburg, 1744: A German Depiction
Tobias Conrad Lotter (1717–1777)
Topographia sedis Imperatoriae Moscovitarum Petropolis anno 1744 [Topographical
Description of Petropolis, the Seat of the Muscovite Empire]
Augsburg?, 1744
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division, Bates-Pantuhoff Collection
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