Maria Chernysheva has recently published a paper “Barbara Radziwiłł and Princess Tarakanova at the 1867 Exposition Universelle. Meanings Lost and Found in Cross-National Perceptions” in the RIHA Journal (Journal of the International Association of Research Institutes in the History of Art).

 The paper focuses on two paintings displayed at the Paris Exposition Universelle (World’s Fair) in 1867 — Józef Simmler’s Barbara Radziwiłł and Konstantin Flavitsky’s Princess Tarakanova. It examines how these depictions of beautiful, dying women reflected the collective memory and political concerns of the Polish and Russian nations.  The article is available in open access here.