Wendy Salmond is professor of art history in the Department of Art at Chapman University, Orange, California. Her publications include Arts and Crafts in Late Imperial Russia: Reviving the Kustar Art Industries (1996) and Treasures into Tractors: The Selling of Russia’s Cultural Heritage, 1918–1938 (co-edited with Anne Odom) (2009).
Russell E. Martin is professor of history, Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pennsylvania. He is the author of A Bride for the Tsar: Bride-Shows and Marriage Politics in Early Modern Russia (2012), for which he won the W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize.
Wilfried Zeisler is the associate curator of nineteenth-century art, Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens, Washington, D.C. He is the author of L’Objet d’art et de luxe français en Russie (1881-1917): Fournisseurs, clients, collections et influences (2015).
Wilfried Zeisler is curator of Russian and 19th-Century Art at Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens, Washington, DC. Zeisler received his doctoral degree in art history from Sorbonne University, Paris, with a dissertation on "The Purchases of French objets d'art by the Russian Court, 1881-1917," offering a dual perspective on French and Russian decorative arts in the context of political, commercial and artistic interactions of the time. He has also been a research lecturer at the École du Louvre on the subjects of French decorative arts from the Middle Age to Art Nouveau, French 19th-century art, French jewelry, 18th to 19th-century Russian art, Fabergé, and the history of Russian palaces from 1825 to 1925.
