Alexey Konstantinovich Levykin: The Tsars and the East: Gifts from Turkey and Iran in the Moscow Kremlin
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Published to accompany the Smithsonian Institutions major exhibition, this book features more than sixty exceptional objects that large embassies, diplomatic missions and trade delegations from Ottoman Turkey and Safavid Iran offered to the Tsars of Russia. Ranging in date from the early sixteenth to the late seventeenth century, these lavish gifts and tributes include rarely seen arms and armour…