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 the Muslim Empires
Although Russia's encounters with the Muslim world were primarily diplomatic
or military, items in this section also reflect commercial and cultural
interactions and Russians' continuing romantic fascination with the Ottoman
Empire, Persia, and India.
The Splendor of Persia's Isfahan
Reproduction from:
John Ogilby (1600–1676)
Asia, the first part. Being an accurate description of Persia. The Vast
Empire of the Great Mogol
London: the author, 1673
NYPL, General Research Division
Mapping Muslim Kingdoms
Joan Blaeu (1596–1673)
Grooten atlas, oft Werelt beschryving [The Great Atlas, or, A Description
of the World] Amsterdam, 1648–64
NYPL, Map Division
The Turkic Foes Rewarded
Peter I, Tsar and Emperor of Russia (1672–1725), and Ivan V, Tsar of Russia
(1666–1696)
Royal property charter granted for service in the war with the Turkish Sultan
and the Crimean Khan
Printed and manuscript document, with Safavid Persian silk textile cover
Moscow, 1686
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
A Turkic Stronghold Seized
Moscowitische Belagerung und Eroberung der Haupt Stadt Asoff im Tartarischen
Königreich Nagaja am Fluss Tänais oder Don [The Muscovite Siege and
Conquest of the City of Azov, Part of the Tatar Kingdom Nogai on the Tanais
or Don River]
N.p., 1696
NYPL, Map Division
A Sultan Captures the European Imagination
Prospero Bonarelli (1580–1659)
Il Solimano [Süleyman]
Florence: P. Cecconelli, 1620
NYPL, Spencer Collection
Islam Studied in Russia
Dimitrie Cantemir (Kantemir), Voivode of Moldavia (1673–1723)
Kniga sistema, ili Sostoianie mukhammedanskiia religii [A Book
of Rules; or, The System of the Muhammedan Religion]
St. Petersburg: Sanktpiterburgskaia Tipografiia, 1722
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
A Western European Portrays an Eastern Execution
Jean de Thévenot (1633–1667)
Voyages … en Europe, Asie & Afrique [Travels in Europe, Asia & Africa]
Amsterdam: Michel Charles Le Céne, 1727
NYPL, General Research Division
The “Magnificent” Sultan
Julius Mandosius
Ottomanorum principum effigies ab Ottomano ad regnantem Mustapham II
[Portraits of Ottoman Rulers from Osman to the Present-day Ruler Mustafa
II]
Rome: D. de Rubeis, Jo. Jacobi heirs, 1698
NYPL, General Research Division
A Russian Porcelain Depicts Ottoman Turks
Pair of figural cups
Porcelain
Gardner Porcelain Factory, Russia, 18th century
Courtesy of A La Vieille Russie
The Ottoman Empire at Central Europe’s Gate
Anonymous German
Engraving of the Ottoman Siege of Vienna
N.p., after 1683
NYPL, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs,
Print Collection
Turkish Silk for Christian Uses
Ecclesiastical textile
Silk brocade
Turkey, 16th century
Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Department of Islamic Art, Rogers
Fund, 1917 (17.22.2)
Eurasian Politics in Map Making
Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571–1638) and Joan Blaeu (1596–1673)
Taurica Chersonese [Taurid of Kherson]
Amsterdam : Willem Janszoon Blaeu and Joan Blaeu, 1670?
NYPL, Map Division
The Ottomans Receive a Russian Embassy
Heinrich Christoph von Reimers (1768–1812)
Reise der russisch-kaiserlichen ausserordentlichen Gesandschaft an die
Othomanische Pforte im Jahr 1793 [The Journey of the Extraordinary Russian
Imperial Embassy to the Ottoman Porte in 1793]
St. Petersburg: [J. C. Shnoor (Shnor)], 1803
NYPL, General Research Division
Friction Along the Border
Nouvelle carte de la Crimée & toute La Mer Noire [A New Map of
the Crimea and the Entire Black Sea]
N.p., [1737]
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
Catherine Receives the Ottomans
Jean Louis de Veilly (fl. 1759–63)
Engraving depicting the reception of the Ottoman Turkish embassy
[St. Petersburg], ca. 1764; printed 1857
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
The Sultan Receives a Russian Ambassador
Rossiiskoe posol’stvo v Konstantinopol’, 1776
goda [The Russian
Embassy to Constantinople (i.e., Istanbul) in 1776]
St. Petersburg: Imperatorskaia Akademiia Nauk, 1777
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
A Turkish Paean to a Russian Beauty
Fazil Tahir Omerzade (d. 1810)
Khubannamah [The Book of the Excellent Ones]
Istanbul, copied 1797–98
NYPL, Spencer Collection
The Sultan’s Solemn Outing
Antoine Ignace Melling (1763–1831)
“A Solemn Procession of the Sovereign, on a Holiday (bayram),” from:
Voyage pittoresque de Constantinople et des rives du Bosphore [Picturesque
Voyage from Constantinople and the Banks of the Bosphorus]
Paris: Treuttel et Würtz, 1819
NYPL, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs,
Art and Architecture Collection
Russia’s Artistic Fascination with the Muslim World
Crescent-shaped box with depiction of a mosque
Silver with niello decoration
Russia, ca. 1780
Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Department of European Sculpture
and Decorative Arts, Bequest of John L. Cadwalader, 1914 (14.58.190)
The Muslim World in Russian Poetry
Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin (1799–1837)
Bakhchisaraiskii fontan [Bakhchisarai Fountain]
Moscow: August Semen, 1824
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
Mapping the Safavid Empire
Johann Baptist Homann (1663–1724)
Imperii Persici in omnes suas Provincias [The Persian Empire and
All Its Territories]
Nuremberg, early 18th century
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division, Bates-Pantuhoff Collection
Persian Poetic Glory
Firdawsi (A.H. 329/C.E. 940–A.H. 411/C.E. 1023)
Shahnamah [The Book of Kings]
Shiraz?, 1614 (miniatures after 1825, probably Teheran)
NYPL, Spencer Collection
India’s Mughal Treasure-House
John Ogilby (1600–1676)
Asia, the first part. Being an accurate description of Persia. The Vast
Empire of the Great Mogol
London: the author, 1673
NYPL, General Research Division
Mughal Indian Exoticism
Jean Bernoulli (1744–1807)
Description historique et géographique de l’Inde [A Historical and
Geographical Description of India]
Berlin: C. S. Spener, 1786–89
NYPL, General Research Division