ANST - Russian Jewelry

[Barbara G Haire]

Thanks for the timely post on the Kremlin Gold exhibit!  I was going to
Houston anyway and decided to check it out.  WOW!  I encourage everyone
who can to see this exhibit.  The icons alone were worth the trip, and I
drove all the way from Abilene!  The jewels were breathtaking, but one of
my favorite pieces was a simple gold filagree bracelet found by a farmer
plowing his field.  

Thanks again, Stefan.

HE Joanna Montgomery


On Sun, 11 Jun 2000 17:06:43 -0500 stefan at texas.net (Stefan li Rous)
writes:
> Since this display is/will be in Houston, I thought some here might
> be interested. I don't remember this being mentioned here before. My
> appologies if it has.
> 
> Stefan
  
Taken from the Minneapolis Star Tribune:
> > 
> > Russian treasures of gold and jewels that survived centuries of 
> upheaval
> > and even the Bolshevik Revolution will make their home in the 
> United
> > States for the next 11 months.
> > 
> > "Imagine if, in 700 years, the Smithsonian Institution packed up 
> 140 of
> > America's finest treasures and sent them to Russia for the Russian
> > people to enjoy, then you'd see you what they have done for us," 
> says
> > Jim Weaver, president of the board of directors of the Houston 
> Museum of
> > Natural Science where "Kremlin Gold: 1,000 Years of Russian Gems 
> and
> > Jewels" is on show.
> 

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