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
Russia’s 18th-century Court
The World: Engaging Northern and Central Europe
The World: Engaging the Muslim Empires
Russia’s 18th-century Court
The items in this section highlight the splendor and scandals of the europeanized
Russian court in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
Catherine’s Dazzling Benefaction
Evangelie naprestol’noe [Altar Gospels]
Moscow, 1791
NYPL, Rare Books Division
Dedication to the “Sun”
Honoré J. Dalmas (d. 1829)
Le nouveau siècle. Invocation au soleil [The New Century. An Invocation
to the Sun]
St. Petersburg: Imprimerie Impériale, 1800
NYPL, Rare Books Division
A Russian Ice Folly
Georg Wolfgang Krafft (1701–1754)
Description et répresentation exacte de la maison de glace, construite
à St. Pétersbourg au mois de janvier 1740 [A Description and Exact Representation
of the House of Ice, Constructed in St. Petersburg in the Month of January
1740]
St. Petersburg: L’Académie des Sciences, 1741
NYPL, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs,
Art and Architecture Collection
Russia’s Treasure House
“The State Sword,” from:
Istoricheskoe opisanie Drevniago rossiiskago muzeia [Historical
Description of the Ancient Russian Museum]
Moscow: Imperatorskii Moskovskii Universitet , 1807
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
The Romanov’s Heirs Saluted by Venice
Angelo Nonni (fl. late 18th century)
Descrizione degli spettacoli, e feste datesi in Venezia [Description
of the Spectacles and Festivities Given in Venice]
Venice: V. Formaleoni, 1782
NYPL, Spencer Collection
The Romanov’s Heirs Saluted by Venice
Giorgio Fossati (1706–1778)
Currus triumphales ad adventum clarissimorum Moschoviae principum Pauli
Petrovitz et Mariae Theodorownae [Triumphal Chariots Used for the Arrival
of the Exalted Princes of Muscovy, Paul Petrovich and Maria Fedorovna (the
First)]
Venice: Fossati, [1782]
NYPL, Spencer Collection
The Attention and Favor of Catherine’s Son
Paul I, Emperor of Russia (1754–1801)
Imperial Charter issued by Emperor Paul I, granting titles and lands for
service
[St. Petersburg], October 24, 1797
NYPL, Spencer Collection
Fireworks for the New Empress Anna
“Fireworks Display on the Day of the Coronation of Empress Anna, April 30,
1730,” from:
Opisanie koronatsii … Anny Ioannovny [Description of the Coronation
of … Anna Ioannovna]
[Moscow]: Senatskaia Tipografiia, 1730
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
A Gift from an Empress
Snuffbox. By Georg Friedrich Eckardt (active 1730s; d. 1765)
Gold, repoussé
Russia, ca. 1750
Private Collection
A Regal Cup
Goblet (pokal) made to commemorate the coronation of Empress Elizabeth
Engraved and gilded glass
Russia, ca. 1741
Courtesy of A La Vieille Russie
Peter’s Daughter Ascends the Throne
“The Entrance of Empress Elizabeth into Moscow for Her Coronation,” from:
Obstoiatel’noe opisanie … koronovaniia …Imperatritsy Elisavety Petrovny
[Detailed Description of the Coronation of … Empress Elizabeth Petrovna]
St. Petersburg: Imperatorskaia Akademiia Nauk, 1744
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
Russia Rewards Its Multinational Servants
Order of St. Anne, First Class, Civil Rank
Gold, enamel, jewels
Russia, ca. 1750–1850
The American Numismatic Society, New York (1924.206.1)
Fit for Catherine’s Table
Porcelain plate (St. Andrew’s Service)
Meissen, Germany, 1743
Private Collection, New York
Catherine’s Historic Feast
Jean Louis de Veilly (fl. 1759–1763)
Engraving depicting the coronation banquet of Catherine II
[St. Petersburg], ca. 1762; printed 1857
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
A Russian Aristocratic Life
Mikhail Ivanovich Makhaev (1716–1770)
Répresentation exacte des edifices et du jardin, qui se trouvent dans
une des maisons de plaisance nommée Sailo Kouskowa [An Exact Depiction
of the Buildings and Garden in the Country Residence Named Kuskovo Village]
[Paris: Laurent, Barabé, Denizard, engravers, 1778–79]
NYPL, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs,
Art and Architecture Collection
Catherine’s Viceroy and “Favorite”
Jeanne Éleonore de Cérenville (1738–1807)
Memoirs of the Life of Prince Potemkin
London: H. Colburn, 1812
NYPL, General Research Division
Spreading French Gossip
Claude Carloman de Rulhière (1734–1791)
A History, or Anecdotes, of the Revolution in Russia, in the Year 1762
Boston: Printed by Manning & Loring, for J. Nancrede, 1798
NYPL, Rare Books Division
Behind Closed and Guarded Doors
Erotic watercolor
Russia, ca. 1790s
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
Justifying a Son’s Condemnation
Mémoires en forme de manifeste, sur le procez criminel jugé & publié
à S. Pétersbourg en Moscovie le 25. juin 1718 [A Report in the Form
of a Manifesto on the Criminal Process Adjudicated and Published in St.
Petersburg in the Kingdom of Muscovy on June 25, 1718]
Nancy: Jean de la Rivière, 1718
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
Losing Life and Throne
Eléazar de Mauvillon (1712–1779)
Histoire de la vie, du règne, et du détrônement d’Iwan III. [i.e., VI]
empereur de Russie [A History of the Life, Reign, and Dethronement of
Ivan VI, Emperor of Russia]
London, 1766
NYPL, General Research Division
Rebellion of the Lower Classes – Redux
Le faux Pierre III; ou, La vie et les avantures du rebelle Jemeljan Pugatschew
[The False Peter III, or, The Life and Adventures of the Rebel Emel’ian
Pugachev]
London: C. H. Seyffert, 1775
NYPL, General Research Division
A Deposed Emperor
Jean-Charles Laveaux (1749–1827)
Histoire de Pierre III, empereur de Russie [A History of Peter III,
Emperor of Russia]
Paris: La Briffe, [1799]
NYPL, General Research Division
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