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This essay and checklist document the exhibition Pageant of the Tsars: The Romanov Coronation Albums, held at Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens February 16–June 8, 2013. The exhibition focused on the history of the Romanovs through the lens of the coronation albums of the tsars. Based on the collection of five of the seven coronation albums held in the Hillwood library, the exhibition was supplemented with objects from the museum and library collections, loans from other institutions, and electronic versions of the albums available on iPads in the exhibition and via the iBooks store. The show marked the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Romanov dynasty in 1613. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article concludes work started for a presentation on bibliophile Andrei Avinoff made at a symposium on Russian art and Russian studies in America in 2008 and for the 2009 book Treasures into Tractors. A member of the pre-Revolutionary Russian aristocracy, Andrei Avinoff, emigrated to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and managed to collect imperial association books and books on Russian art from some of the same dealers—Simeon Bolan and Israel Perlstein—who were supplying large research institutions such as the New York Public Library, the Library of Congress, and Harvard University Library with the same material. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The imperial Russian collection at Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens features some well-known decorative art objects, but the collection's works on paper have never been comprehensively examined. These holdings, housed in the library and museum, consist of original watercolors and drawings, eighteenth-century engravings, nineteenth- and twentieth-century lithographs, chromolithographs, and photographs. Nataliia Sergeevna Goncharova, Mikhail Ivanovich Makhaev, Christina Robertson, Savelii Abramovich Sorine, Vasilii Fëdorovich Timm, and Vasilii Mikhailovich Vasnetsov are among the artists whose works are represented in the collection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This introductory overview of the journal issue describes how the issue was conceived, its intent and objectives, and includes highlights about the authors and their essays. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]