St. Petersburg: Herm, 2018. Sewn pb. This issue of the Hermitage’s journal (now published in Russian and English) publishes twelve articles on various aspects of the collections — exhibiting ancient gold, collecting modern French painting at the turn of the twentieth century, equestrian imagery in Coptic textiles, and Hellenistic lamps..... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2011. Sewn pb. These articles based on a conference at the Russian Museum publish new research and many visual documents on such topics as Karl Briullov's portraits of Anatolii Demidov (some from private collections), a patron of the Academy of Fine Arts, the apotheosis of Peter..... More
Moscow: Muz Maiakovskogo, 2011. sewn pb. The content of these photographs from the Mayakovsky Museum in Moscow make them valuable documents chronicling Mayakovsky's life — standing in profile against the backdrop of the East River and Brooklyn Bridge, performing his poems — and social circle, which comprised major figures of..... More
Moscow: Buksmart, 2014. Sewn pb. A light and elegant beauty distinguished the works of the group of artists in the early twentieth century whose principles, paintings and aesthetic theories constituted the World of Art movement. They graced portraits, cityscapes, historical architecture and folk tales with a bright refined beauty. The..... More
St. Petersburg: Oranienbaum, 2003. sewn pb. Inspired by the Japanese Pavilion of Grand Duke Peter Fedorovich (later Peter III) and Grand Duchess Catherine Alekseevna (later Catherine the Great) at Oranienbaum Palace, this exhibition catalogue describes 124 objects from nine St. Petersburg museums, including arms and armor, prints and paintings, vases..... More
St. Petersburg: Paritet, 2011. Sewn cl. The authors use surviving works of architecture to underpin their survey of the role of the city in the growth and unification of the Russian state. They look in particular at eighteen cities, both famous and obscure, in the regions of Novgorod, Pskov, and..... More
St. Petersburg: Rosfoto, 2017. sewn cl. The Russian State Museum and Exhibition Center for Photography Rosfoto together with other Russian museums, libraries and archives has undertaken a catalogue of early photographs in the daguerreotype technique held at Russian institutions. Volume 5 publishes daguerrotypes, many for the first time, held by..... More
St. Petersburg: Rosfoto, 2015. sewn cl. The Russian State Museum and Exhibition Center for Photography Rosfoto exhibited photos by the great war photographer Evgenii Khaldei to mark the seventieth anniversary of the fall of Berlin. Working for the telegraph agency of the Soviet Union (Tasskhronika), Khaldei photographed many crucial battles..... More
Moscow: Kuchkovo pole, 2018. Sewn pb. Trained in the 1920s during the heyday of the avant-garde, Tyshler could work in a variety of experimental styles. In the Stalinist years he turned to graphic and theater art as a safer sphere to work in than painting for exhibition, but in the..... More
Sewn cl. This exhibition catalogue of the Russian Museum deals with two themes essential to Russian art history: the discovery and propagation outside Russian of Russian secular painting and the publicizing of modernist painting of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Both events occurred thanks to the energy of..... More
St. Petersburg: Erarta, 2017. Sewn pb. The curator of contemporary art at the Hermitage explains the vein of contemporary art that Shnurin practices as a way of waking us up to the many levels of commercialism that separate us from reality. 109 p., 22 cm, approx. 100 color illus., Rus..... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2005. Sewn cl. In his works done before 1917 Matveev drew from varied springs of creativity: the imprecise texture of his sculpture is impressionistic, and he enriches his works with an ambiguity like that of symbolist works in other genres. After the revolution he took up..... More
Kirillo-Belozerskii Museum-Preserve, 2014. sewn cl. Works form the Kirillo-Belozerskii Museum-Preserve show the strains of Russian church art that flourished in the far north, including icon-painting, applied and decorative arts — metalwork as seen in liturgical vessels; textiles and embroidery of priestly vestments and altar cloths; sculpture in carved iconostasis and..... More
St. Petersburg: Bulanin, 2004. sewn cl. This is the first edition of the prestigious series since 1983 to devote all the chapters to manuscripts. The advances in manuscript studies since that publication are evident in the work of the scholars published here; often employing new methods and findings, they cover..... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2016. Sewn cl. This catalogue of a large exhibition at the Russian Museum attains several ends. It amasses enough examples —approximately 300 — to create a sense of a distinct genre: the artist's portrait of himself, usually unceremonial, introspective, and in the twentieth century ironic. And..... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2017. Sewn cl. Rylov's career straddled the tsarist and early Soviet periods. This Russian Museum exhibition catalogue publishes about 70 works from the 1890s to the end of Rylov's life in 1939. In some Rylov seems a worthy follower of such great nineteenth-century landscape painters as..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2019. Sewn pb. The research published in this Hermitage catalogue is relevant to current art-historical interests: the role of the collector and the establishment of provenance. The Stroganovs first became art patrons in the sixteenth century thanks to their flourishing Ural Mt. enterprises, and this is the..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2006. Sewn cl. The catalogue of an exhibition of Western European and Russian books from the Hermitage Library looks at the images of heraldry as they identify and embellish books. Entries catalogue each book, glossing the emblems of family, corporate and state heraldry; identifying artists, designers, and..... More
St. Petersburg: Pushkinskii dom, 2013. sewn bp. The works from Pushkin House Literature Museum selected for publications here show the garish and forceful imagery of tales, epics, or didactic parables, but since the popular print in Russia was one of the inspirations of avant-garde art, it is of interest also..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2006. Sewn pb. Besides cataloguing each work fully, the authors explain themes and content, point out characteristics of the artist’s style, and indicate similar works, thus placing these paintings clearly in the history of Western European art. The introduction sketches the life of the collector, who at..... More
Moscow: Buksmart, 2017. Pb. 90 pages, color ill. , 26 cm. More
St. Petersburg: Iskusstvo SPb, 1999. Sewn cl. Archival photographs, line drawings, and over 1,000 definitions explain and illustrate many aspects of the domestic life of the Russian peasantry such as utensils, interior furnishing and the izba's design, and construction. 374 pp., 6 1/2 x 9 ins., 57 b-&-w illus., sewn..... More
Moscow: Belyi gorod, 2004. sewn cl. 64 pp., 9 1/4 x 12 1/4 ins., approx. 120 color, sewn cl., Rus. Series: Treasures of Russian Art (Sokrovishcha russkogo iskusstva). More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2017. Sewn cl. The 100th anniversary of the 1917 revolution has prompted reconsideration of the political upheaval's effect on all aspects of life: here the Russian Museum publishes works exhibited in a major show "Art Translated into Life," on the sweeping effort of the new regime..... More
Moscow: Muzei drevnerusskogo iskusstva im. Rubleva, 2020. Sewn pb. This catalogue of an exhibition scheduled for spring 2020 publishes a recently restored icon from an early eighteenth-century iconostasis painted by Kremlin Armory workshops for the Cathedral of Archangel Michael in Bronnitsy outside Moscow. The author explains the content of the..... More