Rosalind P. Blakesley, a prize-winning writer and academic, is Professor of Russian and European Art and a Fellow of Pembroke College at the University of Cambridge. A Trustee of the V&A and Syndic of the Fitzwilliam Museum, she has authored books including The Russian Canvas (Yale University Press, 2016) and The Arts and Crafts Movement (Phaidon Press, 2006), and curated exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery, London, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC.

‘This engaging, accessible and beautifully illustrated book provides a welcome and stimulating contribution to scholarship on 18th-century art and patronage, particularly on the relationships (and rivalries) fostered by Catherine and members of the Russian elite with their contemporaries in the rest of Enlightenment Europe.’ – Paul Keenan, The Art Newspaper

• Conventions and Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1: Inscribing a Future Empress; Chapter 2: Catherine Enthroned; Chapter 3: The Academy and the Hermitage; Chapter 4: A Parisian Find; Chapter 5: The Chisel and the Mallet; Chapter 6: Unexpected Treasures; Chapter 7: The Doyenne of Rome; Chapter 8: An Artist in the Family; Chapter 9: The Triumphant Refugee; Epilogue; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Bibliography; Index

Rosalind P. Blakesley, a prize-winning writer and academic, is Professor of Russian and European Art and a Fellow of Pembroke College at the University of Cambridge. A Trustee of the V&A and Syndic of the Fitzwilliam Museum, she has authored books including The Russian Canvas (Yale University Press, 2016) and The Arts and Crafts Movement (Phaidon Press, 2006), and curated exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery, London, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC.

‘This engaging, accessible and beautifully illustrated book provides a welcome and stimulating contribution to scholarship on 18th-century art and patronage, particularly on the relationships (and rivalries) fostered by Catherine and members of the Russian elite with their contemporaries in the rest of Enlightenment Europe.’ – Paul Keenan, The Art Newspaper

• Conventions and Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1: Inscribing a Future Empress; Chapter 2: Catherine Enthroned; Chapter 3: The Academy and the Hermitage; Chapter 4: A Parisian Find; Chapter 5: The Chisel and the Mallet; Chapter 6: Unexpected Treasures; Chapter 7: The Doyenne of Rome; Chapter 8: An Artist in the Family; Chapter 9: The Triumphant Refugee; Epilogue; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Bibliography; Index

Rosalind P. Blakesley, a prize-winning writer and academic, is Professor of Russian and European Art and a Fellow of Pembroke College at the University of Cambridge. A Trustee of the V&A and Syndic of the Fitzwilliam Museum, she has authored books including The Russian Canvas (Yale University Press, 2016) and The Arts and Crafts Movement (Phaidon Press, 2006), and curated exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery, London, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC.

‘This engaging, accessible and beautifully illustrated book provides a welcome and stimulating contribution to scholarship on 18th-century art and patronage, particularly on the relationships (and rivalries) fostered by Catherine and members of the Russian elite with their contemporaries in the rest of Enlightenment Europe.’ – Paul Keenan, The Art Newspaper

• Conventions and Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1: Inscribing a Future Empress; Chapter 2: Catherine Enthroned; Chapter 3: The Academy and the Hermitage; Chapter 4: A Parisian Find; Chapter 5: The Chisel and the Mallet; Chapter 6: Unexpected Treasures; Chapter 7: The Doyenne of Rome; Chapter 8: An Artist in the Family; Chapter 9: The Triumphant Refugee; Epilogue; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Bibliography; Index