Philip Henry Stanhope

DISTINGUISHED VISITORS: A RUSSIAN CULTURAL PANTHEON IN LONDON

Rosalind P. Blakesley

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
Magazine issue: 
#2 2016 (51)

The epochal exhibition “Russia and the Arts: The Age of Tolstoy and Tchaikovsky” runs at London’s National Portrait Gallery until June 26, bringing the pride of Russia’s 19th-century cultural pantheon to the UK. Its British curator Rosalind P. Blakesley recalls the origins, development and ambitions of this major Anglo-Russian cultural collaboration.

DISTINGUISHED VISITORS: A RUSSIAN CULTURAL PANTHEON IN LONDON

The epochal exhibition “Russia and the Arts: The Age of Tolstoy and Tchaikovsky” runs at London’s National Portrait Gallery until June 26, bringing the pride of Russia’s 19th-century cultural pantheon to the UK. Its British curator Rosalind P. Blakesley recalls the origins, development and ambitions of this major Anglo-Russian cultural collaboration.

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