Anglo-Russian Relationstrough the Centuries

One of the most memorabilia places in Moscow The Old English court has became a museum in 1994. It tells us the history of this house and the relationship between Great Britain and Russia in the 16th-17th centuries

The first relations between Russia and England were established four centuries ago. During the reign of Elizabeth I in England, and Ivan the Terrible in Russia

The famous picture of the Russian

painter Alexander Litovchenko

introduces the real scene from this

time – «Ivan the Terrible is

showing his treasures to the British

Ambassador Horsey» (A.

Litovchenko, 1875).

Sir Jerome Horsey (1550 – 1626), of Great Kimble, Buckinghamshire, was an English explorer, diplomat and politician in the 16th and 17th centuries.

The exhibition at the Moscow Kremlin Museums «The Golden Age of The English Court: from Henry VIII to Charles I»

Her

Majesty

Queen

Elizabeth II

has given

her

personal

agreement

to ensure

that they

brought to

Moscow

armor of

Henry VIII

The national treasures «The Drake Jewel» and «The Drake Star» were also brought to Moscow

The unique form of visual art in the 16-17th century in England – the portrait miniature

The paintings and drawings, portrait miniature, jewellery, silver plates, arms and armor, textiles, rare

books and prints tell us the story of the «Golden Age» of the Tudors and the first Stuarts Court