Dear All
Reveived from the Pushkin Club.
Best wishes
Ute
Monday 12 March at the V & A
How Russian were the Russian Tsars?
Professor Alexei Leporc, Curator of Western European Art at the State
Hermitage
Museum, St. Petersburg
Evening Lecture with slides
From the time of Peter the Great, the main ideological aspirations of all
rulers
of this
powerful and uniquely enigmatic empire were to create a highly
Europeanized
state in
every respect. As court life became increasingly European, by the mid
19th-century a
true feeling of being Russian had evolved, manifesting itself in the
architecture, art and
fashions of the age. As part of his select UK lecture programme,
Professor
Alexei Leporc will take Members on a captivating journey through
centuries
revealing
how the Tsars evolved their own style of living, dressing and entertaining
which
was
initially European in veneer but which eventually became
characteristically
Russian
Using illustrations of architecture, paintings, Court dresses and
fashion,
Alexei Leporc
will illuminate the imperial shift of the world’s largest nation.
£15
19.00-20.45 (wine reception with speaker 20.00-20.45)
To book for you and your guests call 020 7942 2277 / 2278 or email
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