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
Russian Exploration
The World: Engaging the Muslim Empires
Russia and the West Interact
Russian Exploration
The items in this section consider Russia's engagement with the world, beginning
in the 18th century, through its exploration and scientific documentation
of the vast territory now known as the Russian Empire, and beyond.
The Russian Imperial Expanse
Map of the Russian Empire, mid-18th century, from:
Atlas Russicus [Atlas of Russia]
St. Petersburg: Academia Scientiam Imperialis, 1745
NYPL, Map Division
Russia Sails the Northern Pacific
Izobrazhenie obieikh polovin zemnago shara [A Representation of Both
Hemispheres of the Globe]
St. Petersburg, 1787
NYPL, Map Division
Siberia in Silver
Box with map of Siberia
Gilded silver and niello
Russia, 18th century
Courtesy of A La Vieille Russie
The Costume of Russia’s Many Peoples, on Paper
Johann Gottlieb Georgi (1738–1802)
Description de toutes les nations de l’empire de Russie [A Description
of All the Nationalities of the Russian Empire]
St. Petersburg: J. C. Shnoor (Shnor), 1776–77
NYPL, Spencer Collection
The Costume of Russia’s Many Peoples, in Porcelain
Figure of a Kabardian fish merchant
Porcelain
Russian Imperial Porcelain Factory, 1780–90
Courtesy of A La Vieille Russie
Russia’s Natural Grandeur
Georg Wilhelm Steller (1709–1746)
Beschreibung von dem Lande Kamtschatka [Description of the Land of
Kamchatka] Frankfurt: Johann Georg Fleischer, 1774
NYPL, Rare Books Division
Russia’s Material Resources
A religious assemblage of Buddhist Kalmyks, from:
Georg Wilhelm de Hennin (1676–1750)
Opisanie sibirskikh kazennykh i partikuliarnykh gornykh zavodov [A
Description of Siberian Metal Works, Both State and Private]
N.p., 1735
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
Traveling in European Russia
Vasilii Fedorovich Zuev (1754–1794)
Puteshestvennyia zapiski Vasil’ia Zueva ot S. Peterburga do Khersona
v 1781 i 1782 godu [The Travel Diary of Vasilii Zuev, from St. Petersburg
to Kherson in 1781 and 1782]
St. Petersburg: Imperatorskaia Akademiia Nauk, 1787
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
A Multiethnic Crimean Cosmopolis
Pavel Ivanovich Sumarokov (d. 1846)
Dosugi krymskago sud’i ili Vtoroe puteshestvie v Tavridu [Idle Reflections
of a Crimean Judge, or, A Second Journey to Tauride]
St. Petersburg: Imperatorskaia Tipografiia, 1803–5
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
Russia’s Flora
Rhododendron, from:
Peter Simon Pallas (1741–1811)
Flora Rossica [The Flora of Russia]
St. Petersburg: J. J. Weitbrecht, 1784–88
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
Peter’s Emissary Travels Across Europe
Count Boris Petrovich Sheremetev (1652–1719)
Zapiska puteshestviia … grafa Borisa Petrovicha Sheremeteva … v Krakov,
v Venu, v Venetsiiu, v Rim i na Maltiiskii ostrov [Travel Notes of …
Count Boris Petrovich Sheremetev … to Cracow, Vienna, Venice, Rome, and
the Island of Malta]
Moscow: Imperatorskii Universitet, 1773
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
A Russian Slave
Neshchastnyia prikliucheniia Vasil’ia Baranshchikova, meshchanina Nizhniago
Novagoroda v … Amerike, Azii i Evrope, s 1780 po 1787 god [The Unfortunate
Adventures of the Nizhnii Novgorod Merchant Vasilii Baranshchikov in America,
Asia and Europe from 1780 to 1787]
St. Petersburg: Vil’kovskii i Galchenkov, 1787
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
A Globetrotting Adventurer
Count Móric Benyovsky (1741–1786)
Begebenheiten und Reisen [Adventures and Travels]
Hamburg: Benjamin Gottlob Hoffmann, 1791
NYPL, Rare Books Division
Russians in the Holy City
Opisanie s[via]tago B[o]zhiia grada Ier[usa]lima [A Description of
God’s Holy City of Jerusalem]
[Moscow, ca. 1830, printed from the engraved plates, dated 1771]
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division, Bates-Pantuhoff Collection
For Russian Children: A Description of the World
Opisanie narodov, obitaiushchikh v Evrope...; , Azii, Afrike i
Amerike [A Description of the Peoples Inhabiting Europe, Asia, Africa,
and America]
St. Petersburg: Ios. Ioannesov, 1812
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
A Russian Diplomat’s View of the American Republic
Pavel Petrovich Svin’in (1788–1839)
Opyt zhivopisnago puteshestviia po Severnoi Amerike [An Illustrated
Description of a Picturesque Journey Through North America]
St. Petersburg: F. Drekhsler, 1815
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
Russian Merchant to the Americas
Grigorii Ivanovich Shelekhov (1748–1795)
Rossiiskago kuptsa Grigor’ia Shelekhova stranstvovanie v 1783 godu iz
Okhotska po Vostochnomu Okeanu k Amerikanskim beregam [An Account of
the Journeys of the Russian Merchant Grigorii Shelekhov in 1783 from Okhotsk
on the Eastern Pacific Ocean to the Shores of America]
St. Petersburg: V.S., 1791–92
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
Russians the North Pacific
A Russian settlement on Kodiak Island, from:
Gavriil Andreevich Sarychev (1763–1831)
Plate volume to: Puteshestvie flota kapitana Sarycheva po severovostochnoi
chasti Sibiri, Ledovitomu moriu i Vostochnomu okeanu [The Journey of
Fleet Captain Sarychev Through the Northeastern Regions of Siberia, the
Arctic Sea, and the Eastern (Pacific) Ocean]
St. Petersburg: Shnor, 1802
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
Russians Visit the South Pacific "Paradise"
Ludovik Andreevich Choris (1795–1828)
Voyage pittoresque autour du monde, avec des portraits
de sauvages d’Amérique,
d’Asie, d’Afrique, et des îles du Grand océan [A Picturesque Voyage Around the World, with Portraits of the Savages of
America, Asia, Africa, and the Islands of the Pacific Ocean]
Paris: Firmin Didot, 1822
NYPL, Rare Books Division
Russians Circumnavigate the World
Clothing and artifacts of the people of the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii),
Kodiak Island, and Sitka, from:
Iurii Fedorovich Lisianskii (1773–1837)
Puteshestvie vokrug sveta v 1803, 4, 5, i 1806 godakh [A Voyage Round
the World in the Years 1803, 1804, 1805, 1806]
St. Petersburg: F. Drekhsler, 1812
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
Russians on the Chinese Border
Andrei Efimovich Martynov (1768–1826)
Zhivopisnoe puteshestvie ot Moskvy do kitaiskoi granitsy [A Picturesque
Journey from Moscow to the Chinese Border]
St. Petersburg: Aleksandr Pliushar, 1819
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
Russians Visit a South Pacific “Paradise”
Ludovik Andreevich Choris (1795–1828)
Voyage pittoresque autour du monde, avec des portraits de sauvages d’Amérique,
d’Asie, d’Afrique, et des îles du Grand océan [A Picturesque Voyage
Around the World, with Portraits of the Savages of America, Asia, Africa,
and the Islands of the Pacific Ocean] Paris: Firmin Didot, 1822
NYPL, Rare Books Division
Russia’s New World Subjects
Interior of a Kalosh cabin on Sitka Island, from:
Count Fedor Petrovich Litke [Luetke] (1797–1882)
Voyage autour du monde … dans les années 1826, 1827, 1828 et 1829 [A
Voyage Around the World … in the Years 1826, 1827, 1828, and 1829]
Paris: Firmin Didot frères, 1835–36
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
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