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
The World: Engaging Northern and Central Europe
The items in this section reflect Russia's cultural, commercial, and political
engagement with northern and central European countries from the reign of
Peter the Great (1682-1725) to the beginning of the 19th century.
Sweden’s Military Grandeur
Reproduction from:
Erik Jonsson Dahlbergh (1625–1703)
Suecia antiqua et hodierna [Ancient and Modern Sweden]
[Stockholm: E. J. Dahlberg, at the expense of the King, 1667–1716]
NYPL, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs,
Art and Architecture Collection
The Dutch Depict Russia’s Northern Rivals
Frederick de Wit (1630–1706)
Novissima nec non Perfectissima Scandinaviae [The Most Recent, Although
Incomplete, Information on Scandinavia]
Amsterdam: Pierre Mortier, ca. 1710
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division, Bates-Pantuhoff Collection
Sweden Is Defeated by Peter
Aleksei Fedorovich Zubov (1682–1751)
Etching depicting the battle of Poltava, June 27, 1709
Moscow or St. Petersburg, ca. 1710
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
A Swedish Apology for Peter’s Rival
Jöran Andersson Nordberg (1677–1744)
Histoire de Charles XII. roi de Suède [History of Charles XII, King
of Sweden]
The Hague: P. De Hondt, 1748
NYPL, General Research Division
A Swedish Objet d’art in Russia
Tankard
Gilded silver with niello decoration (ca. 1750). By Heming Petri
Nyköping, Sweden, ca. 1680
Courtesy of A La Vieille Russie
A Vanquished Swede Maps Siberia
Philipp Johann von Strahlenberg [Tabbert] (1676–1747)
An Historico-geographical Description of the North and Eastern Parts
of Europe and Asia, but more particularly of Russia, Siberia, and Great
Tartary
London: W. Innys and R. Manby, 1738
NYPL, General Research Division
Sweden’s Imperium
“Royal Castle, Tre Kronor, Stockholm,” from:
Erik Jönsson Dahlbergh (1625–1703)
Suecia antiqua et hodierna [Ancient and Modern Sweden]
[Stockholm: E. J. Dahlbergh, at the expense of the King, 1667–1716]
NYPL, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs,
Art and Architecture Collection
Denmark, Poland, and Saxony Ally with Russia
Johann Georg Wolfgang (1662–1774), after Johann Samuel Mock (1687–1737)
Engravings of a Procession held in Dresden during the visit of Frederick
IV, king of Denmark, to Frederick Augustus II, elector of Saxony, in 1709
Berlin, 1719
NYPL, Spencer Collection
Frederick Augustus – Russia’s Sometime Ally
David Fassmann (1683–1744)
Des glorwürdigsten Fürsten … Friedrich Augusti des Grossen, Königs in
Pohlen und Churfürstens zu Sachsen … Leben [The Glorious Life … of Frederick
Augustus the Great, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony]
Frankfurt: W. Deer, 1734
NYPL, General Research Division
A Habsburg Queen’s Coronation
Johann Heinrich Ramhoffsky (1700–1760)
[Die Beschreibung] Des königlichen Einzugs, welchen Ihro Königliche
Majestät … Maria Theresia, zu Hungarn und Böheim Königin … in dero königliche
drey Prager-Städte gehalten [The Description of the Royal Arrival of
Her Royal Majesty Maria Theresa, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia … in the Three
Royal Towns of Prague]
Prague: Carl Franz Rosenmüller, [1743]
NYPL, Spencer Collection
Spain Takes Notice of Russia
Estadística, ó, Descripción geográfica y política del gran imperio
de Rusia [Statistics, or, Geographic and Political Description of the Great Empire
of Russia]
Madrid: Hija de Ibarra, 1807
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
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