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Britannia & Muscovy : English silver at the court of the Tsars

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"This book was produced in connection with the exhibition, Britannia & Muscovy: English Silver at the Court of the Tsars, held at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT (25 May-10 September 2006) and the Gilbert Collection, London (14 October 2006-28 January 2007)"--T.p. verso.

Contents

'The golden chain of traffic': the first hundred years of Anglo-Russian relations / Olga Dmitrieva
English silver in Moscow
English silver of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in the Kremlin / Natalya Abramova
The Goldsmiths and the court: silver in London 1600-65 / Philippa Glanville
English silver
The Embassy of Charles Howard, Earl of Carlisle/ Irina Zagorodnaya
English silver brought by the Earl of Carlisle
French Silver brought by the Earl of Carlisle
English firearms in Moscow
Seventeenth-century English firearms in the Kremlin / Elena Yablonskaya
English guns
Russian guns based on English designs
The presentation of gifts
English diplomats at the Court of the Tsars / Irina Zagorodnaya
An English "Charyott' for Tsar Boris Godunov / Lyubov Kirillova
Ambassadorial gifts / Maija Jansson
Russian Ambassadors in England: eyewitness accounts
Letters from English Monarchs to Russian Tsars
The Russian context
The Moscow Kremlin and its history / Paul Bushkovitch
Russian ecclesiastical silver
Russian secular silver
The imagery of early Anglo-Russian relations / Edward Kasinec & Robert H. Davis, Jr.
English writings on Russia
Depicting Russia
Appendix: List of English silver of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in the armoury / Natalya Abramova.

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