Notice of this upcoming exhibition appeared in my inbox last week. The Tsars’ Cabinet: Two Hundred Years of Decorative Arts Under the Romanvs was organized by the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William and Mary, and will be on view at the Sonoma County Museum beginning February 25.
The exhibit includes about 160 pieces, much of it by Faberge, including porcelain services, glassware, enamel, silver gilt, and decorated eggs. Many of these are grouped by tsar, which helps to illustrate major social or political trends of each tsars’ reign.
What’s nice is that there is an actual connection between Russian history and Sonoma County: It’s the 200th Anniversary of the establishment of Fort Ross. “Fort Ross was a thriving Russian-American Company settlement from 1812 to 1841. This commercial company chartered by Russia’s tsarist government controlled all Russian exploration, trade and settlement in the North Pacific, and established permanent settlements in Alaska and California.”
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