Looking for History of Woodturning data

[moshe]

Hi,

Today I saw a picture on Facebook of Prince Charles turning some wood, it reminded me that woodturning (at least ornamental) was a hobby of kings and other nobility.
When looking on the Internet I found hardly anything, a little textual mention here and there.

I'd really enjoy it (and I think other people as well) if someone can share some more info on the subject of kings and turning - pictures would be even better (stuff turned by kings).

Thanks a bunch!

 

[MichaelMouse]

Peter the Great was quite the turner, among his other talents, like skewering Streltsy. This from references in biographies. I have never seen examples of his work, however.

http://mokeeva.spb.ru/e-machine.htm

Even better backgrounding, though the lathe at the Hermitage is fascinating.

http://www.mokeeva.com/doklad.htm

 

[moshe]

Peter the Great was quite the turner, among his other talents, like skewering Streltsy. This from references in biographies. I have never seen examples of his work, however.

http://mokeeva.spb.ru/e-machine.htm

Even better backgrounding, though the lathe at the Hermitage is fascinating.

http://www.mokeeva.com/doklad.htm

Thank you for all the interesting links, the Russian tsars seem to also have been major clients of turners (Faberge eggs for example), and also had a Royal Lathe Shop with head engineers and more...

But again, can't seem to find any pictures of their works (the one done by Tsars or any other royalty)...

 

[MichaelMouse]

URL from an old hard drive. Knew I had one somewhere that generated the Russian site.

http://www.historicgames.com/lathes/llinks.html

Bits and pieces of electronic memory all around.