Author: Jenny Antill

Researching the history of the Pushkin Museum

The Pushkin Museum I have been busy this week researching the history of the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. Gainsborough’s House in Sudbury will close at the end of October to embark on its £8 million capital  project. While it is closed some of its artworks will be travelling to Moscow to feature in an exhibition […]

Peter the Great at the Queen’s Gallery

Portrait of Peter the Great of Russia by Sir Godfrey Kneller. 1698. This picture of Peter the Great is one of many interesting works that can be seen at the exhibition  Russia, Royalty and the Romanovs,  currently running at the Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace. The picture features in my talk ‘The Bronze Horseman‘ which tells […]

A Grand Tour

Only a couple of weeks to go now before I go on my ‘Grand Tour’ around Suffolk and North Essex making my small contribution to Hugh Belsey’s lecture series on the 18th Century Grand Tour. I will be speaking about some of the Russians who travelled to Italy and beyond after 1762, when the gentry […]

Starting again

This new site is dedicated to my ‘Russian’ actitivies I will be posting information about my talks, translation and research services, together with other news and comment. Please bear with me while I work out how to make the site work.  For someone as technically challenged as me this could take some time!