Moscow: Komkniga, 2010. 2nd Printing. sewn cl. From the earliest times the Onega River was one of the waterways linking the central Russian lands with the While Sea area, playing an important part in the opening up of the Russian North. The Poonezh’e and the coast of the Onega Bay... More
Moscow: Herm, Fond Mardzhani, 2016. Sewn cl. This catalogue of a Hermitage exhibition at the Kazan Kremlin Museum publishes art and artifacts that originate in the areas along 1000-year old trade routes of Eastern Europe, the Near East, and Central Asia. The tools, artifacts, applied and decorative arts are now... More
Moscow: Akademiia khdozhestv / Progress-Traditsiia, 2013. Sewn cl. The author uses archival documents to trace the career of the architect Alexander Kokorinov (1726-72), who prepared the way for the flourishing of neoclassical architecture in Russia. He achieved fame for his design of the ensemble of the Academy of Fine Arts... More
St. Petersburg: Kriga, 2014. sewn cl. The author studies the changes in architectural style of the Russian imperial capital as they reflect evolving artistic culture of the period. The copious use of visual documents strengthens the author's arguments and also amounts to a survey of the veduta of the period... More
St. Petersburg: Muzei nonkonformistskogo iskusstva, 2009. sewn pb. The artists who refused to toe the line of official Soviet art formed an art movement that became known as as Nonconformism. They had to exhibit their works surreptitiously during the Soviet period. Finally, after the fall of the Soviet Union their... More
? Pikene Pa Broen, 2015. It takes firsthand knowledge of the cities depicted to know which images will most distinctly characterize them. Florenskiii manages to make every city unique in this journey from north to south through sundry Russian towns. n.p., 22 x 16 cm, approx. 50 color illus., Rus... More
Moscow: Muzei izobrazitel'nykh iskusstv im. A. S. Pushkina, 2009 (2nd, enlarged and corrected edition). sewn pb. This catalogue has been the life work of the author who undertook in the 1960s a systematic and scholarly description of the Pushkin Museum’s collection of Japanese prints. The collection lacks early works of... More
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2014. sewn cl. This is an extraordinarily rich encyclopedia of costume, fine and decorative arts, folk art, and arms and armor for over one hundred nationalities inhabiting the territory of Russia. Years in the making, the volume is especially valuable for its skillful compilation of illustrations and... More
Moscow: Dostoinstvo, 2015. More
Moscow: Eizenshtein-tsentr, 2008. Sewn cl. These writings touch on general cinema art of the 1920s and 30s such as "Is Bloodshed on Screen Necessary," "On True Film" and "The Sound Cinema"; and on specific topics relating to Vertov's work (e.g., "How We Made the Film about Lenin"). 647 p., Rus. More
![Fotografiia, izobrazhenie, dokument, nauchnyi sbornik, vypusk 3 (3) (Photography, imagery, document: scholarly articles, vypusk 3 [3]). D. O. Tsypkin.](/pictures/thumb/894.jpg?v=1530621349)
St. Petersburg: Rosfoto, 2012. pb. This number of Rosfoto's periodical on photography as a source looks at identifying photographic portraits and facial characteristics used in anthropology. 63 p., approx. 40 b/w illus., Rus. wit summaries in ENGLISH. ISSN: 2221-1764. More
St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii Religii, 2011. Sewn pb. The museum’s collection has paintings on religious subjects from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century. They represent several styles in which the Armenian church and artists dealt with sacred themes: icons, general biblical scenes, depiction of the main events in Armenian... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2017. Sewn cl. Pavel Filonov hasn't the same fame of some of the other artists of the Russian avant-garde, yet as this major show at the Russian Museum demonstrates, both stylistically and ideologically Filonov's art was through and through revolutionary and a match for any artist... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2017. sewn cl. The visual material comprises works of many kinds connected with the philosophical, religious, and social movement of Freemasonry: those used in masonic rituals, incorporating masonic symbols, or portraying principal figures involved in Freemasonry. Sculpture, paintings, and drawings; applied and decorative arts including jewelry, metalwork... More
St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii Sankt-Peterburga, 2005. pb. Mid-nineteenth-century architects in St. Petersburg often faced the challenge of redesigning monumental works of the eighteenth century for new owners and new needs. The plans and drawings published here from the collection of the State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg elucidate... More
![Zhivaia vera. Vetka (Living Faith: Vetka [icon collection]). O. D. Bazhenova G. G. Nechaeva.](/pictures/thumb/1629.jpg?v=1498353301)
Minsk: Belaruskaia Entsyklapedyia imia Perusia Brouki, 2012. sewn cl. A somewhat cryptic title veils a major scholarly publication: a catalogue of the icon collection of the The F. G. Shkliarov Vetkov Museum of Folk Art. Formed during the Soviet period through the efforts of Fedor Shliarov, an indefatigable collector devoted... More
St. Petersburg: Rus Muz, 2006. sewn cl. Research on icon-painting has been especially active in Russia during the years since the fall of the Soviet regime. The introductory chapters of this Russian Museum exhibition catalogue examine how one specific subject came to be favored by the church and icon-painters in... More
St. Petersburg: 2013. Sewn cl. These blade weapons used by or awarded to those who served in the Russian navy are significant for the art history of arms and their provenance, for example, pieces arms wielded by Peter the Great, Emperor Paul, grand princes of the Romanov family. Most of... More
Tver: I. P. Verkhov, 2014. sewn pb. This edition in the series Famous Iconostases (Znamenitye ikonostasy Rossii) publishes recently restored icons of the mid seventeenth century painted for an early fifteenth-century church. 17 p. + pls., 26 cm, approx. 50 color illus., Rus. More
Moscow: Belyi gorod, 2003. sewn cl. Approximately one third of the works illustrated here were painted in the 1880s and 90s by Nikolai Iaroshenko, whose former estate houses the Kislovodsk art collection. His work allies him with the Itinerants, and his main subjects were Petersburg and his native Caucasus. 64... More
St. Petersburg: Rosfoto, 2013. This catalogue of an exhibition at the State Museum and Exhibition Center Rosfoto shows works from the 1970s to the present by an art photographer whose main interest is experimenting with light in striking physical landscapes. These images of Lake Ladoga, the Pamirs, the Baltic, the... More
Moscow: Sev pal, 2012. sewn cl. Scholars and curators will find in this handbook a rich visual source on the history of costume and textile design in northern Europe. Distinct styles and patterns of folk art, especially as seen in women's clothing, survived in Russia well into the twentieth century... More
!["Blagoslovenie sviatoi afonskoi gory": k 1000-letiiu russkogo monashestva na Afone. Ikony, rukopisi i grafika iz muzeinykh, bibliotechnykh i chastnykh sobranii ("Blessing of the Holy Mt. Athos: [published on the occasion of] the 1000th anniversary of Russian monasticism on Mt. Athos: icons, manuscripts and prints from museums, libraries, and private collections). Ia. E. Zelenina L. I. Alekhina.](/pictures/thumb/1880.jpg?v=1526162685)
Moscow: Muzei drevnerusskogo iskusstva im. Rubleva, 2016. Pb. The majority of the works published in this catalogue of an exhibition at the Rublev Museum of Medieval Russian Art and Culture date to the last third of the nineteenth century and were painted in icon workshops of Mt. Athos. The icons... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2015. sewn cl. This catalogue publishes artists' books by some of the greatest painters of the twentieth century — Georges Braques, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dali, Sonia Delaunay-Terk, Jean Cocteau, Fernand Léger, Henri Matisse, Joan Miro, Picasso, for example — most done in the decade and a half... More
New York: Ukrainian Museum, 2015. sewn pb. The Ukrainian Museum in New York in cooperation with the Museum of Theater, Music and Cinema Arts of Ukraine in Kyiv published this catalogue of the New York exhibition that showed that in addition to Moscow and St. Petersburg/Petrograd/Leningrad had worthy rivals as... More