We are delighted to announce the speakers and provisional programme for the one-day conference, “Russia: Courtly Gifts and Cultural Diplomacy” (22 March 2019), organised by the Cambridge Courtauld Russian Art Centre in collaboration with the Royal Collection Trust. Please circulate to any colleagues who may be interested to attend.
For more details of the exhibition, visit https://www.rct.uk
To book tickets:
Provisional Programme
10.00 – 10.15 Welcome
10.15 – 11.15 Panel 1: Gift-giving
Alfred Lord Tennyson and an Imperial Russian GiftOlga Sobolev (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Fabergé hardstone in Imperial gifting from Russia to England.
Cynthia Coleman Sparke (Independent Scholar)
11.15 – 11.45 Tea/coffee
11.45 – 12.45 Panel 2: Dynasties
‘The Murder is out’: The princely marriage of Queen Victoria’s second son and Tsar Alexander II’s only daughter
Aidan Jones (King’s College, London)
Images of Nicholas II: (Mis-)Interpreting the Last Tsar Through Photographs
Wendy Slater (University of Manchester)
12.45 – 14.00 LUNCH / exhibition view
14.00 – 15.30 Panel 3: Artistic Exchange
The Acculturation of a Diplomat: Petr Potemkin’s Portrait by Godfrey Kneller (1682)
Louise Hardiman (Independent Scholar)
Gabriel Skorodumov and James Walker: Printmaking and British-Russian Cultural Relations in the late eighteenth century
Zalina Tetermazova (The State Historical Museum, Moscow)
George Dawe and the Petersburg Military Gallery: Picturing Heroic Masculinity for the Russian Court
Allison Leigh (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
15.30 – 16.00 Tea/coffee
16.00 – 17.30 Panel 4: Diplomacy
Cinematic Ambassadors: the role of film in British-Soviet wartime diplomacy
Claire Knight (University of Bristol)
Prince Grigory Potemkin, Sir Joshua Reynolds and Diplomacy
Elizaveta Renne (The State Hermitage Museum)
Catherine II, the Cathcarts and Russian Anglophilia
Anthony Cross (University of Cambridge)
17.30 – 18.00 Curator’s roundtable /Q&A
18.00 – 20.30 Brief closing remarks, followed by drinks reception and private view of the exhibition
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