Past Events

Marauding soldiers from Napoleon’s army. The survivor of a terrorist plot. Evidence from an emperor’s murder. Military regalia spirited away from an imperial palace. A discerning customs official saving artifacts from destruction. All these and more play a role in the gripping tales of objects [...]

Join Nick Nicholson, our Director of Development and a specialist in Russian decorative art, for a look at the world of Russian lacquer that existed before the revolution, and the lacquer work we now know from the Soviet and present day lacquer centers of Palekh [...]

'A Mass of Brilliant Color': Vestments for the Coronation of Nicholas II and Alexandra Fedorovna An online lecture by Dr. Karen Kettering Vestments for clergy serving at coronation ceremonies are one of the most dazzling elements of the celebration. These pieces are designed to shine [...]

Beyond Faberge: Imperial Russian Jewelry An online lecture by Marie Betteley Be the first to join jewelry dealer and Russian specialist Marie Betteley as she introduces her forthcoming book Beyond Fabergé, Imperial Russian Jewelry, set to be released next month. A lavishly illustrated systematic survey of [...]

Entertaining, Shopping and Collecting in Paris: The Fate of the Collection of Princess Olga Paley and Grand Duke Paul of Russia An online lecture by Dr. Wilfried Zeisler Described in Marcel Proust’s A La Recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time) as a [...]

Performing a la russe: Russian Émigré Music in 1920s Harlem An online lecture by Dr. Natalie Zelensky While much has been written about the Russian émigré communities of Paris, Berlin, and Prague, the cultural mileiu of Russian émigrés in New York City has been little [...]

Grand Duke Michael: Brother of the Tsar An online lecture by Nicholas Nicholson In this lecture, our Director of Development and Romanov scholar Nicholas Nicholson will present new research from his recent book from Academica Press co-authored with translator Helen Azar, Michael Romanov: Brother of [...]

The Old Russian Style and the Arts of Nostalgia An online lecture by Dr. Wendy Salmond In the closing decades of the Russian Empire nostalgia for an imagined national past consumed Russia’s educated classes. Armed with scholarly publications and original artifacts, architects and designers developed [...]