The Tsars and the East: Gifts From Turkey and Iran in the Moscow Kremlin May 12, 2009

This presentation features more than sixty exceptional objects that large embassies, diplomatic missions and trade delegations of Ottomans and Safavids offered to the tsars of imperial Russia. Ranging in date from the late 16th to the late 17th century, these lavish gifts and tributes include rarely seen arms and armor and jeweled ceremonial vessels and regalia intended for the Russian court or the Orthodox church.