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 and the West Interact
Russia and the West Interact
The items in this section convey the further interaction of Russia with
western Europe in the first quarter of the 19th century as well as the continued
europeanization of Russia. Russia's engagement with the world reached its
pinnacle when Alexander I (r. 1801-25) triumphantly led the allied troops
into Paris after the defeat of Napoleon. Objects in this section also allude
to Russia's growing awareness of the implications of europeanization and
global engagement.
Russian Victory at Borodino, 1812
Reproduction from:
Domenico Scotti (b. 1780)
Vospominanie ob Otechestvennoi voine 1812 g. [Memoirs of the Great
Fatherland War of 1812]
Moscow, 1814; printed 1883
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
St. Petersburg at Fifty, 1753
Pierre François Tardieu (1711–1771)
St. Pétersbourg
N.p., [1753]
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division, Bates-Pantuhoff Collection
St. Petersburg at Catherine’s Mid-Reign, 1776
Christoph Melchior Roth (d. 1798)
Novoi plan stolichnago goroda i kreposti Sanktpeterburga [A New Plan
of the Capital City and Fortress of St. Petersburg]
N.p., 1776
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division, Bates-Pantuhoff Collection
Russia’s Literary Star
Poliarnaia zvezda [The Northern Star]
St. Petersburg: N. Grech, 1823–25
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
Russia’s European Herald
Vestnik Evropy [The Herald of Europe]
Moscow, 1802–30
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
Russian Children Enter the World of the Enlightenment
Novoe zrelishche vselennyia , predstavlennoe iz Tsarstva Prirody,
iskusstva, nravov i obyknovennoi zhizni, dlia detei oboego pola [The
New Spectacle of the Universe, as Presented in the Natural Kingdom, Art,
Morals, the Ways of Everyday Life, for Children of Both Sexes]
Moscow: Universitetskaia Tipografiia Ridigera i Klaudiia, 1804
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
Russian Interest in Magic and Spirits
Johann Samuel Halle (1727–1810)
Otkrytyia tainy drevnikh magikov i charodeev , ili Volshebnyia
sily natury [Revealing the Secrets of Ancient Magic and Sorcerers,
or, The Magical Forces of Nature]
Moscow: Universitetskaia Tipografiia u Ridigera i Klaudiia, 1798–1804
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
Classic Russian Silver
Serving tray
Silver
St. Petersburg, master’s mark of Aleksandr Il’ich Iashinov, 1801
Private Collection, Long Island, New York
Classic Russian Silver
Drinking cup with classical motifs
Silver
Tula, Russia, Mikhail Mikhailovich Karpinskii maker, 1814
Private Collection, Long Island, New York
Russia’s Scholarly Boom
Mémoires de la Société impériale des naturalistes de Moscow [Reports
of the Moscow Imperial Society of Naturalists]
Moscow, 1806–17
NYPL, General Research Division
A Russian Fabulist Borrows from France
Ivan Andreevich Krylov (1768–1844)
Fables russes [Russian Fables]
Paris: Bossange, 1825
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
Russia’s English Interpreter
Sir John Bowring (1792–1872)
Specimens of the Russian Poets
London: The author, 1821–23
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
Russia’s French Interpreter
Émile Dupré de Saint-Maure (1772–1854)
Anthologie russe, suivie de poésies originales [A Russian Anthology,
Including Original Poetry]
Paris: C. J. Trouvé, 1823
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
Napoleon’s Moscow Debacle
Plan de la Ville et des faubourgs de Moscou, indiquant … les parties
de cette Ville, que les Russes ont incendiées lors de l’entrée de S.M. l’Empereur
Napoléon, le 14 septembre 1812 [Plan of the City and Suburbs of Moscow,
Showing Those Parts of the City Burned by the Russians at the Time of the
Entry of His Majesty Emperor Napoleon on September 14, 1812]
Paris: Pierre-Grégoire Chanlaire, Charles Picquet, [1812?]
NYPL, Map Division
France Capitulates
Count Fedor Petrovich Tolstoi (1783–1873 )
Sobranie reznykh izobrazhenii s medalei [A Collection of Images Engraved
from Medals]
St. Petersburg: V. Plavil’shchikov, 1818
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
Russia’s “Hordes” Take Paris
[The Costume of the Allied Armies in Paris in the Year 1815]
[Paris, 1816]
NYPL, Spencer Collection
Napoleon’s Nightmare
Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Borck
Napoleon’s erster Traum in Moskwa [Napoleon’s First Dream in Moscow]
St. Petersburg: I. Glasunow, 1812
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division (originally in the collections of the Great
Catherine Palace, Tsarskoe Selo)
A Commemorative Sword
Dress sword made for General Paisii Sergeevich Kaisarov (1783–1844)
Etched, gilded, and blued metal
By Ivan N. Bushuyev for the Zlatoust (city) Arms Factory, Russia, 1824
Courtesy of A La Vieille Russie
A Russian Ridicules Napoleon
“The Beginning of the End,” from:
Ivan Ivanovich Terebenev (1780–1815)
Karrikatury Napoleona I [Caricatures of Napoleon I]
Lithograph
[Russia, ca. 1813–15]
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
A Victor’s Tune
Ferdinand Charles Panormo
Moscow, or Buonaparte’s Retreat: A Grand Russian Air
London: G. Walker, [1814?]
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Music Division
Russia Feted in the Heart of London
An Account of the Visit of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent and Their
Imperial and Royal Majesties the Emperor of All the Russias and King of
Prussia
London: Nicholas, son, and Bentley, [1815]
NYPL, General Research Division
A Relic of Napoleon’s Invasion
Carte de la Russie Européenne [Map of European Russia]
Paris: Dépôt général de la Guerre, 1812
NYPL, Map Division
A Thoroughly European Capital
St Pétersbourg et les environs [St. Petersburg and Environs]
St. Petersburg: Velten, ca. 1800
NYPL, Science, Industry and Business Library, William Barclay Parsons Collection
Russia’s Empire Piques the English Reader
Robert Lyall (d. 1831)
The Character of the Russians, and a Detailed History of Moscow
London: T. Cadell, 1823
NYPL, General Research Division
A Romantic English View of the “Northern Venice”
“June” and "July,” from:
A Picture of St. Petersburgh
London: Printed for E. Orme, by J. F. Dove, 1815
NYPL, General Research Division
German Mysticism and Piety à la Russe
Karl von Eckartshausen (1752–1803 )
Nochi, ili besedy mudrago s drugom [Nights, or Conversations
of a Wise Person with a Friend]
St. Petersburg. Petersburg; , 1817
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
Holy Writ for the People
Kniga Khvalenii, ili, Psaltir’ [The Book of Praise, or, The Psalter]
St. Petersburg: Rossiiskoe Bibleiskoe Obshchestvo, 1824
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
Burdens of Engagement
Stepan Filippovich Galaktionov (1779–1854)
Lithograph depicting Emperor Alexander I
[Russia], 1827
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
Depicting St. Petersburg, 1800
Plan der Kaiserlichen Residenzstadt St. Petersburg [A Plan of the
Imperial Residence of St. Petersburg]
Weimar: Industrie Comptoirs, 1800
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division, Bates-Pantuhoff Collection
Depicting St. Petersburg, 1806
Aleksandr Dmitrievich Savinkov (fl. 1792–1835)
Plan stolichnago goroda St. Peterburga [Plan of the Capital City
of St. Petersburg]
[St. Petersburg, 1806?]
NYPL, Map Division
The Final Blow
Domenico Scotti (b. 1780)
Vospominanie ob Otechestvennoi voine 1812 g. [Memoirs of the Great
Fatherland War of 1812]
Moscow, 1814; printed 1883
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
Old Moscow on the Eve of Invasion
Guerard de la Barthe (fl. late 18th–early 19th century; resided in Moscow
and St. Petersburg, 1787–1810)
View of Moscow, with the Kremlin in the distance
[Russia], 1799
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
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