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Anglo-Russian Relationstrough the Centuries
One of the most memorabilia places in Moscow The Old English court has became a museum in 1994. It tells us the history of this house and the relationship between Great Britain and Russia in the 16th-17th centuries
The first relations between Russia and England were established four centuries ago. During the reign of Elizabeth I in England, and Ivan the Terrible in Russia
The famous picture of the Russian
painter Alexander Litovchenko
introduces the real scene from this
time – «Ivan the Terrible is
showing his treasures to the British
Ambassador Horsey» (A.
Litovchenko, 1875).
Sir Jerome Horsey (1550 – 1626), of Great Kimble, Buckinghamshire, was an English explorer, diplomat and politician in the 16th and 17th centuries.
The exhibition at the Moscow Kremlin Museums «The Golden Age of The English Court: from Henry VIII to Charles I»
Her
Majesty
Queen
Elizabeth II
has given
her
personal
agreement
to ensure
that they
brought to
Moscow
armor of
Henry VIII
The national treasures «The Drake Jewel» and «The Drake Star» were also brought to Moscow
The unique form of visual art in the 16-17th century in England – the portrait miniature
The paintings and drawings, portrait miniature, jewellery, silver plates, arms and armor, textiles, rare
books and prints tell us the story of the «Golden Age» of the Tudors and the first Stuarts Court