TY - JOUR AU - Vinokurov, Sergey PY - 2021/06/21 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Artworks of Russian Stone Carvers in the Diplomatic Service JF - Quaestio Rossica JA - QR VL - 9 IS - 2 SE - Controversiae et recensiones DO - 10.15826/qr.2021.2.608 UR - https://qr.urfu.ru/ojs/index.php/qr/article/view/qr.608 SP - 761–767 AB - <p>This review examines recently published works by Russian scholars in the field of artistic stone carving, namely, the reference book by N. M. Mavrodina, Works of Russian Stone-Carving Art in Collections outside Russia (2019), and the monograph by L. A. Budrina, Malachite Diplomacy (2020). Both works study objects created by Russian stone carving artists through the 18th – early twentieth century and which left the country as a result of various diplomatic occasions. The authors have adopted different research approaches. N. M. Mavrodina, preparing a catalogue of works exported from Russia, focuses mainly on the activities of Imperial stone-carving factories. The monograph by L. A. Budrina, on the other hand, focuses on the identification and study of carvings and their history; it also offers insights into the role of stone-carved objects in the formation of the image of the Russian state, and describes the main mechanisms that contributed to the formation of a fashion for Russian stone carving abroad. The two reviewed works offer a significant contribution to the historiography of stone carving art, as well as the role of works of art in creating the image of a country or region and their place in the formation of a single European art market.</p> ER -