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Please see attached for details of an important
forthcoming conference in
Dr Claire Shaw
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Congress 2014
Announcement
RUSSIA-UK
FIVE CENTURIES OF CULTURAL
RELATIONS
The international Congresses of
the Towns and Cities of Peter the Great take place every year in
The organizers of the Congress on
the Russian side are the Ministry of Culture of the
The object of the Russia-UK
Congress is to open new pages in the history of cultural relations between our
two countries, to affirm the mutual benefits of cultural cooperation, and to
initiate new cultural projects.
In 1553 the Edward Bonaventure, an English ship commanded by Richard
Chancellor, dropped anchor in the estuary of the
While political relations
between the countries underwent inevitable ups-and-downs, cultural contacts
developed. The publication of the first English accounts of
Peter the Great played a
crucial role in bringing the two nations closer together, visiting England in
January-June 1698 and recruiting into Russian service a wide range of English
and Scottish specialists, including naval officers, shipbuilders, and
engineers, and granting new privileges to the Russia Company, whose merchants
were to flourish in the soon-to be-founded St Petersburg, where a strong
British colony grew up in the eighteenth century.
Throughout the eighteenth
century and into the nineteenth British teachers in Peter’s Navigation
School, headed by Henry Farquharson, shipbuilders
such as Cozens and Nye, engineers such as Perry, Lane and Upton, and a host of
naval officers, including the Admirals Greig, made an
enormous contribution to the development of the Russian navy.
Russians were sent to
Similarly, British
technical experts and specialists arrived in
British tourists came
initially to
The British were slower
to react to Russian culture but in the decades after the Crimean War the
British public became more aware of the achievements of Russian novelists and
composers and artists, leading to the cult of all things Russian in the first
decades of the twentieth century, not least the novels of Tolstoy and
Dostoevsky, plays of Chekhov, the music of Tchaikovsky, and the exotica of the
ballets russes.
At the Congress the
following areas are proposed as subjects for discussion:
The Organizing Committee
operates within the framework of the Dmitry Likhachev Foundation.
Tel/fax +7 812 272 29 12;
tel +7 812 272 91 43; e-mail [log in to unmask]
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Dear Colleagues, (Congress_2014_info-letter_5)
The 6th International Peter
the Great Congress RUSSIA-UK: FIVE CENTURIES OF CULTURAL RELATIONS is to be
held in
The organizers of the
Congress on the Russian side are the Ministry of Culture of the
The object of the
Russia-UK Congress is to open new pages in the history of cultural relations
between our two countries, to affirm the mutual benefits of cultural
cooperation, and to initiate new cultural projects.
At the Congress the
following areas are proposed as subjects for discussion:
In order to take part in
the Congress it is essential to submit BEFORE 25 MARCH 2014 an application that
provides the following details: full name, place of employment and position,
contact details (e-mail; home and mobile telephone numbers; fax) and a short
synopsis of the proposed paper (1000-1800 characters).
The Organizing Committee
reserves the right to select the papers to be delivered at the Congress.
The working languages of
the Congress are Russian and English.
The Organizing Committee
will provide accommodation and subsistence in
The Organizing Committee
operates within the framework of the Dmitry Likhachev Foundation.
Tele/fax +7 812 272 29
12; tele +7 812 272 91 43; e-mail [log in to unmask]