American‑Russian relations in the times of the American Civil War (1861‑1865)
Journal: Studia z Dziejów Rosji i Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej
Year: 2013

The 1860s were marked by an exceptional affection and friendship in the bilateral relations between the United States, a young American republic, and the long‑established tsarist Russia. This phenomenon, which had never occurred with such intensity before or since, inspired Russian and American researchers and politicians to organize The Tsar and the President: Alexander II and Abraham Lincoln, Liberator and Emancipator exhibition which was displayed, inter alia, in Moscow in 2011. The following