Peter the Great through British Eyes

Perceptions and Representations of the Tsar since 1698

Inbunden, Engelska, 2000

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Beskrivning

Peter the Great's visit to England in the first months of 1698 has been called 'the most picturesque episode in the history of Anglo-Russian relations', and lives on most vividly in popular memory for the devastation caused at Sayes Court, John Evelyn's house and garden in Deptford. Recent celebrations of the tercentenary of that visit have refocused attention on the most famous of Russian tsars, but the story of Britain's love-hate relationship with him over the intervening centuries has never before been told. This study analyses changing British reactions to Peter in an extremely wide variety of printed sources - newspapers and journals, letters and collections of anecdotes, histories and biographies, novels, poems and plays. A final innovative chapter is devoted to images of the tsar as interpreted by British painters from Godfrey Kneller to Daniel Maclise, and by a whole cohort of engravers, illustrating biographies and travel accounts.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2000-11-30
Mått:182 x 256 x 18 mm
Vikt:600 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521782982

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Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Recensioner i media

'… a significant building block in the growing edifice of writings on Anglo-Russian relations. It supersedes everything else written on the subject, and will appeal to historians both of Russian culture and identity, and of British media culture and international relations in the eighteenth century.' Roger Bartlett, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London

Innehållsförteckning

Preface; 1. Prologue to a visit; 2. Peter in England, January–April 1698; 3. British reactions to the reigning Peter, 1698–1725; 4. Consolidation of a myth, 1726–1761; 5. The shadow of the bronze horseman, 1761–1801; 6. The testament of Peter the Great and British views of the tsar in the nineteenth century; 7. Peter on the British stage; 8. The British contribution to Petrine iconography; Epilogue.