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A Royal Lecture and Reception: Imperial Presentation Icons by Fabergé and Kurliukov, and the Wedding of the Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna, 1908
A look at two important Imperial Presentation icons by Faberge and Kurliukov, created as gifts for the wedding of Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna the Younger (1890-1958) to Prince Willem of Sweden, Duke of Sodermanland. The magnificent 1908 wedding was to be the last of a Russian Grand Duchess before the Russian Revolution. Gifts to Russian Grand Duchesses were known for their extravagance, and in this talk, Nicholas Nicholson will look in particular at two icons, one, the Feodorovskaya Mother of God by Fabergé, a gift from the St. Petersburg Nobility Assembly, the other an icon of the Image Made Without Hands by Kurliukov in the pan-slavic style, a gift from the Moscow Merchants Association. These two icons represent the differences in style and different political intentions of the two groups of donors. Nicholson also looks at other wedding gifts including jewels by Cartier, and sets it all against the extraordinary life of the Grand Duchess, who was born in St. Petersburg, became a beloved Swedish princess, divorced her royal husband, worked as a nurse during the first world war, escaped the revolution through Romania, opened a fashion house in Paris that worked with Chanel, and published two of the greatest Romanoff memoirs.
The lecture and reception will be attended by HSH Prince Dmitri Romanoff Ilyinsky, great-nephew of Grand Duchess Maria, and the senior male descendant of the House of Romanoff.
Nicholas B. A. Nicholson began his career at Christies working for the Russian Department and sold important Russian works from the estates of Landsell Christie, Jane Englehardt and Frank Sinatra. He also participated in the landmark sale of the Fabergé Imperial 25th Anniversary Clock, which set auction records for Fabergé, clocks, and silver. Following Christies, Nicholson became the American Curator of Jewels of the Romanovs; Treasures from the Russian Imperial Court, a touring exhibition of w.orks from five Russian lending institutions, including a selection of the Imperial Crown Jewels from the State Diamond Fund of the Russian Federation. Nicholson currently serves as Senior Vice President and Division Head of Furniture & Decorative Arts at Freemans Auction in Philadelphia and leads the British & European Furniture & Decorative Arts department which includes silver, objets de vertu, and Russian works of art. He is the recent co-author of a scholarly annotated translation of the diaries of grand duchess Tatiana, the second daughter of Nicholas II.
The reception will feature opera, Broadway, and music of the season presented by Masters students in Opera at Longy School of Music of Bard College, under the direction of Miss Donna Roll.
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LocationMuseum of Russian Icons (View)
203 Union Street
Clinton, MA 01510
United States
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