Tag: talks

A modest proposal

Post author By Jennifer Antill
Post date February 13, 2025
Categories In Royal connections, Russian Diplomacy, Russian history

Ivan the Terrible showing his treasure to the English Ambassador. (Alexander Litovchenko 1875) The Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg. Did Ivan the Terrible propose to Elizabeth the First of England? I have been researching my Royal Connections talk that I will be giving to several historical societies later this year. Relations between the Russian and English […]

From izbas to the Seven Sisters

Post author By Jennifer Antill
Post date November 13, 2022
Categories In talks

Some months ago I rashly promised to lead a session on Russian secular architecture for the Architecture Group at Sudbury U3A. As the day approached, I started to wonder why I had agreed to do it. My knowledge of architecture, while quite extensive, is strictly that of an amateur; I have little clue about the […]