The Legacy of Peter the Great and Coups d'Etat in the Russian Empire

Price:

3000 RUB.

Timed to coincide with a major exhibition at the Moscow Kremlin Museums, the catalogue is dedicated to one of the most complex and dramatic periods in Russian history – the era of palace coups that replaced Peter the Great's reforms.

The publication gives the most complete picture of the participants in the palace conspiracies and their hidden 'sources' that influenced the course of events, including foreign interference. The story of the political power struggle in the 18th century is told through authentic material evidence of the period – costumes, ceremonial and hunting arms, regalia, portraits and engravings, coins, orders and documents belonging to the direct participants of these events.

The catalogue is on sale in the museum shops in the Alexander Garden, in front of the Patriarch's Palace and in the Armoury Chamber.