Russia’s participation in the International Exhibition of Science, Art and Industry in Glasgow, the commercial capital of Scotland, became one of the most important cultural events of 1901, prompted by a new wave of interest in Russian culture abroad. A large part of the exhibition area in the city’s Kelvingrove Park was occupied by Great Britain and her colonies, with Russia and France as the main foreign participants. Although such progressive countries as Germany and the USA did not officially take part in the exhibition, representatives from Austria, Denmark, Morocco, Persia and the British colonies of India, Ceylon, Rhodesia, Canada and Australia flocked to Glasgow.