The Tsars And The East
Gifts From Turkey And Iran In The Moscow Kremlin
Editor: Alexey KonstantinovichLevykin
Thames & Hudson Ltd (United Kingdom), 2009
Hardback, 160 pages
Size: 290x250 mm
ISBN: 9780500514979
ISBN-10: 0500514976
List price: £32.00
You save: 30%
The Tsars And The East
Accompanying the Smithsonian Institutions major exhibition, this book features more than sixty objects that large embassies, diplomatic missions and trade delegations from Ottoman Turkey and Safavid Iran offered to the Tsars of Russia. It explores the reasons why these extraordinary gifts were presented, their artistic and cultural impact.
