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Archive Collection description: HAR
Hare Collection (circa) 1961
Professor Richard Gilbert Hare (1907-1966) entered the Diplomatic Service
in 1930 and served in the British Embassy in Paris and the Foreign
Office. During the Second World War Hare worked for the Ministry of
Information and became deputy director and later director of the
Anglo-Soviet Relations Division. After the war he held teaching positions
at various American universities until 1962 when he was appointed to the
Chair of Russian Literature at SSEES. Hare wrote a number of books and
many articles for specialist periodicals and the "Encyclopedia
Britannica". He was an expert on Russian art as well as Russian
literature.
Ref: "Slavonic and East European Review" vol 45, no 105, 1967, pp 271-272
Contents
Photographs of Russian silver, porcelain, glass, ikons, paintings and other objets d'art; also offprint of "Russian Silver" by Hare (in Ramsay, L G G "The Connoisseur Complete Encyclopedia of Antiques" (New York, 1962, pp 60-65).(circa) 1961
1 envelope
(Language) English
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