“The Trojan War at the Court of Ivan the Terrible”

In this lecture, Yale University’s Reuben Post Halleck Professor of History, Paul Bushkovitch, challenges the assumption among historians of early modern Russia that, prior to Peter the Great, Russian culture was almost entirely religious. The 2010 publication of a sixteenth-century Russian translation of Guido delle Colonne’s Historia destructionis Troiae (1287), included as part of the monumental sixteenth-century Illustrated Chronicle Compilation, makes clear that this generalization needs revision and demonstrates that the court culture of the Grand Dukes/Tsars included much more than devotional texts and images. This event is free and open to the public.