Furs, Flora, and Fabergé - Gifts and Cultural Diplomacy: Materiality and British-Russian Relations

For our first 19v event of fall 2023, we hear from contributors to Courtly Gifts and Cultural Diplomacy: Art, Material Culture and British-Russian Relations (Paderborn: Brill Schöningh, 2023), a new book on how art and material culture were involved in fostering contacts in the state and diplomatic spheres between Russia and Britain during the Romanov era. As an edited volume bringing together experts from academia, the museum sector, and the private sector, it highlights new research on topics of gift giving and artistic diplomacy. Volume editor Louise Hardiman will introduce the project and then invite brief presentations from three contributors. These case studies of gift-giving and artistic diplomacy provide new perspectives on cultural relations during the period, highlighting unknown instances of transnational dialogue and archival sources and illuminating the visual and material culture of late Imperial Russia.
For more on Courtly Gifts and Cultural Diplomacy: Art, Material Culture and British-Russian Relations, visit: brill.com/display/title/61637