Talking about a Revolution: Gallery Talk Series

Russia's Crown Reprised  

Lascelle Meserve and Nicolas de Basily collected and cherished old Russia and its art. This gallery talk with Edward Kasinec, visiting fellow, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, highlights their gifts to the Hoover Institution Library & Archives that make up part of the institution’s impressive holdings on the Russian Revolution and Imperial Russia.

MORE TALKS IN THIS SERIES:

OCTOBER 19, 12PM, An Introduction to The Crown under the Hammer: Russia, Romanovs, Revolution with Jodi Roberts, Robert M. and Ruth L. Halperin Curator for Modern and Contemporary Art, Cantor Arts Center

OCTOBER 21, 1PM, Russia’s Crown under Armand HAMMER!  with Edward Kasinec, visiting fellow, Hoover Institution Library & Archives  

OCTOBER 25, 2PM, A Russian Artist Paints the Revolution  with Elena S. Danielson, archivist emerata, Hoover Institution Library & Archives  

NOVEMBER 1, 12PM, Why Montage Fever?  with Pavle Levi, director, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasion Studies and associate professor, Film and Media Studies, Department of Art & Art History

NOVEMBER 16, 12PM, An Introduction to The Crown under the Hammer: Russia, Romanovs, Revolution with Jodi Roberts, Robert M. and Ruth L. Halperin Curator for Modern and Contemporary Art, Cantor Arts Center

DECEMBER 2, 12PM, The Brave New World of Soviet Political Posters  with Bertrand Patenaude, research fellow, Hoover Institution Library & Archives

DECEMBER 6, 12PM, Hidden in Plain Sight  with Marissa Schleicher Rhee, project archivist for exhibitions, Hoover Institution Library & Archives

FEBRUARY 14, 12PM, Love & Revolution  with Samira Bozorgi, assistant archivist for exhibitions, Hoover Institution Library & Archives  

FEBRUARY 24, 2PM, The Brave New World of Soviet Political Posters  with Bertrand Patenaude, research fellow, Hoover Institution Library & Archives

MARCH 3, 12PM, Hidden in Plain Sight  with Marissa Schleicher Rhee, project archivist for exhibitions, Hoover Institution Library & Archives

IMAGE: Anonymous French photographer, Lascelle Meserve de Basily (1890–1989) and Nicolas de Basily (1883–1963), ca. 1920s–30s. Gelatin silver photographs. Nikolai Aleksandrovich Bazili Papers, Hoover Institution Archives.