Tamara Talbot Rice

Tamara Talbot Rice (19 June 1904 – 24 September 1993) was a Russian then English art historian, writing on Byzantine and Central Asian art.

Talbot Rice was born Elena Abelson, to Louisa Elizabeth ("Lifa") Vilenkin and Israel Boris Abelevich Abelson, the latter a businessman and member of the Czar's financial administration. Leo Tolstoy was her godfather. Elena lived a privileged childhood in St Petersburg, initially attending . The Russian Revolution of 1917 prompted her family to move to England, and she completed her schooling, first at Cheltenham Ladies' College and then at St Hugh's College, Oxford.^[1]

In 1927 she married the English art historian David Talbot Rice; they both published under the surname Talbot Rice, but are often referred to as "Talbot-Rice" or "Rice".

Publications (selected)[]

• 1965: Ancient Arts of Central Asia. Thames and Hudson

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