Hillwood
Thirty Years of Collecting, 1977-2007



Thirty Years of Collecting, 1977-2007
Focuses on the Boyar Ball of 1903, illustrating with objects the jarring inconsistencies between the westernized society of the Romanovs and the old Russian customs that Nicholas II hoped to recapture. This title considers the cultural ambitions and contradictions in Russia on the eve of the Revolution.