Emerging Empires: England and Muscovy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth
Centuries
14th & 15th June 2013
In Association with the Society for Court Studies
Friday 14th June 2013
Lydia and Manfred Gorvy Lecture Theatre, V&A
Programme
8:30 – 9:45 Early Viewing of V&A exhibition ‘Treasures of the Royal
Courts: Tudors, Stuarts and the Russian Tsars’ with Natalia Abramova,
Curator of Silver, Moscow Kremlin Museums, Angus Patterson, Curator of
Armour, V&A, Richard Edgcumbe, Curator of Jewellery, V&A and Clare
Browne, Curator of Textiles, V&A
10:00 -10:30 Coffee and Registration
10:30 Welcome: Paul Williamson, Deputy Director (V & A)
10:40 Session One - Russia and England 1509-1685
Chair: Olga Dmitrieva, Deputy Director, Moscow Kremlin
Museums
Russia in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Paul Bushkovitch, Professor of History, Yale University
Mikepher Alphrey and Richard James, A Russian in England and An
Englishman in Muscovy in the Seventeenth Century
Ralph Cleminson, Independent Scholar
11:45 Discussion
12:15 Session Two - Trade and Diplomacy in the Early 17th Century
Chair: Malcolm Smuts, Professor of History, University of Massachusetts
The First Fifty Years of the Muscovy Company
Alexander Sotin, Curator, The Old English Court Museum, Moscow
13:00 Lunch (Not provided)
14:00 The Culture of a Merchant Prince: Thomas Smith’s Family Background
and International Network
Karen Hearn, Honorary Professor, University College London
Thomas Smith's 'rich Chariot' of 1604 and the English Coach in the Kremlin
Julian Munby, Oxford Archaeology
15:00 Discussion
16:00 Close
17:00 Introduction and Welcome, Banqueting House, Whitehall
Tracy Borman, Interim Chief Curator, Historic Royal Palaces
17:15 The Reception of Ambassadors at Whitehall in the 17th century
Simon Thurley, Chief Executive, English Heritage
17:45 'Heere will be a Masque': The first performance in the new
Banqueting Hall, Winter 1621/22.
Larry Manley, Professor of English, Yale University
18:15 Close
Saturday 15th June
10:00 Registration
10:15 Welcome: Beth McKillop, Deputy Director (V & A)
10:25 Session Three - Russian Palace Architecture
Chair: Maurice Howard, Professor of the History of Art, University of Sussex
Architectural Semiotics and Iconography in the Reign of Ivan IV
Michael Flier, Professor of Ukrainian Philology, Harvard University
The Scottish Kremlin Builder
Jeremy Howard, History of Art, University of St. Andrews
11:30 Discussion
11:50 Coffee
12:15 Session Four - Diplomacy
Chair: Peter Barber, Head of Map Collections, The British Library
The Illuminated Royal Correspondence in the Russian State Archives
Maija Jansson, Director Emerita, Yale Centre for Parliamentary History
13:00 Lunch (Not provided)
14:00 'To present or returne as there shall be occasion' - Silver gifts
intended for Richard Bradshaw's embassy to Moscow
Kathryn Jones, Curator, Royal Collection
The Embassy to Moscow of Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle
Christopher Ridgway, Curator, Castle Howard, Yorkshire
15:00 Discussion
15:50 Tea
16:10 Session Five - Summing Up
Chair: Tessa Murdoch, Exhibition Curator, ‘Treasures of the Royal
Courts: Tudors, Stuarts and the Russian Tsars’, V & A
Political Culture and Diplomatic Ceremonial in Early Modern England and
Russia
Olga Dmitrieva, Deputy Director, Moscow Kremlin Museums
Closing Remarks
Malcom Smuts, Professor of History, University of Massachusetts
17:15 Close
This conference is supported by The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in
British Art
£25, £20 concessions, £10 students (per day)
Book online or call 0207 942 2211
All Programmes are subject to change without warning.
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