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Sbornik dokladov mezhdunarodno konferent s ii "Fotografii a v muzee", 2-4 okti a bri a 2012 g. (Collection of Talks of an International Conference “Photography in Museums”, 2 – 4 October 2012)
St. Petersburg: Rosfoto, 2012. pb. As part of a national program to study and preserve collections of photographs in Russian archives, museums, and libraries, Rosfoto, the state exhibition center for photography in St. Petersburg, organized a conference in 2012 entitled “Photography in Museums.” Over twenty authors presented their research sizing..... More
Stranitsy istoriii otechestvennogo iskusstva, vypusk XXX. Sbornik statei po materialam nauchnoi konferentsii (Russkii muzei, Sankt-Peterburg, 2016) (Pages in the History of Russian Art, vypusk XXX. Collection of articles stemming from a scholarly conference [Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, 2016])
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2018. Sewn pb. From icon-painting to contemporary art, from the avant-garde to seventeenth-century portraits, the series Pages in the History of Russian Art (Stranitsy istoriii otechestvennogo iskusstva) illuminates many central questions and byways in the history of a major branch of European art. 367 p., 20..... More
Zhivopis’ skandinavskikh stran i Finlandii XVIII – XX vekov. Katalog kollektsii (Paintings from Scandinavia and Finland 18th – 20th centuries. Catalog of the [Hermitage] collection), 9785935728106; VIII- :
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2018. Sewn cl. A full presentation of the Hermitage’s collection of paintings by Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, and Finnish painters comes only once in a generation or so and incorporates decades of research by the museum's curators. Though small by comparison with its collections of Western European painting..... More
Peterburg v sud’be Genrikha Shlimana (Petersburg in the Fate of Heinrich Schliemann)
St. Petersburg: Kolo, 2006. sewn cl., For this monograph the author has examined sources of all kinds in an attempt to demystify Schliemann’s career. The biographical study looks at Schliemann’s great commercial success in Russia, which would fund his archeological explorations, and his self-education, his ability to form ties with..... More
Monumental’nyi zhyvopys Troits’koi nadbramnoi tserkvy Kyevo-Pechers’koi lavry (Monumental Painting in the Trinity Church above the Gate at the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra)
Kyïv: Vyd-vo KVIT S, 2005. Sewn pb. The frescoes on the façade, interior walls, and ceilings of the Trinity Church above the Gate make up almost 200 scenes from biblical history and lives of saints. Handsomely printed three sections of color plates give us the sense of grandeur of the..... More
Arkhitektura Peterburga serediny i vtoroi poloviny XIX veka, tom I, 1830–1860-e gody: ranniaia eklektika (Architecture of Petersburg in the Middle and Second Half of the 19th c., vol. 1, 1830s–1860s: Early Eclectic)
St. Petersburg: Kriga, 2009. sewn cl. The author has mustered copious visual documentation to refute the general view that St. Petersburg architecture entered a phase of decline after the magnificent boom of Alexander I’s reign (1801–25). His illustrations of interiors and exterior architectural details, such as balconies and railings, suggest..... More
Byt pushkinskogo Peterburga : opyt entsiklopedicheskogo slovaria, l-ia (Everyday life in Pushkin's St. Petersburg: an enclopedia-dictionary, l-ia)
St. Petersburg: Ivan Limbakh, 2011. Sewn cl. The first entry discusses the Lycée opened by Alexander I and attended by Pushkin, and the last entry is on the Hermitage as the art collection of empresses and emperors, which suggests the range of material published in this unique handbook. The illustrations..... More
The Daguerreotype in Russia, vol. 5, The Collection of the Russian State Library / Dagerotip v Rossii, tom 5, Sobranie Rossiiskoi gosudarstvennoi biblioteki
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
Obraz zhizni v rabotakh iz kollektsii [Erarta Muzei sovremennogo iskusstva (Life style in works of art from the collection of Erarta Museum of Contemprary Art)
St. Petersburg: Erarta, 2010. pb. Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art in St. Petersburg publishes here a survey of contemporary painting by including works by over one hundred Russian artists working in the last years of the twentieth and first years of the twenty-first centuries. Representative examples of the artists' works..... More
Aleksandr Voitsekhovskii: den' rozhdeniia vtorogo pilota / Aleksandr Voitsekhovskii: the co-pilot's birthday
St. Petersburg: Liubavich, 2018. Sewn cl. The naive style and a close acquaintance with Russian life and its absurdities make Voitsekhovskii's picture chronicle something like an illustrated picaresque novel on contemporary Russia. n.p, approx. 50 color pls., Rus. and ENGLISH. More
Iskusstvo v evakuatsii / Art in Evacuation
Moscow: Institut russkogo realisticheskogo iskusstva, 2015. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Institute of Russian Realist Art (Moscow) publishes works of fine art (mainly painting and drawing), theater design, cinema and animation that were done from 1941 to 1945. The authors point out the irony of the Stalinist years..... More
The Daguerreotype in Russia, vol. 1 / Dagerotip v Rossii, tom 1
St. Petersburg: Rosfoto, 2014. 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. The first volume publishes works from twenty-one collections around Russia. Beautifully..... More
Strel’na i Petergof: podrobnyi putevoditel’ (Detailed Guidebook to Strel’na and Peterhof)
St. Petersburg: Paritet, 2008. Sewn cl. The author combines social and architectural history as she surveys two estate ensembles and neighboring buildings along the Gulf of Finland between St. Petersburg and Peterhof, which figured in Russian imperial court life in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. 478 pp., 6 x 9..... More
Sovetskii farfor 1920 - 1930-kh Godov v chastnykh sobraniiakh Sankt-Peterburga (Soviet porcelain of the 1920s and 1930s from private collections in St. Petersburg)
St. Petersburg: KGallery? n.d. Sewn cl. These works, mainly sculptural figurines and services, are products of the preeminent porcelain factory in Russia, the successor of the Imperial Porcelain Factory known in the early 1920s as the State Porcelain Factory and after 1924 as the Leningrad Lomonosov Porcelain Factory. The first..... More
Lev Bakst: Moia dusha otkryta: kniga pervaia: stat'i, roman, libretto (My heart is open, book 1: articles, novel, libretto)
Moscow: Iskusstvo XXI vek, 2012. This is the first publication of the written works of Lev Bakst, a major figure in Russia's Silver Age as a painter associated with the World of Art, designer of theater sets and costumes, book illustrator and fashion designer. His style is well crafted and..... More
Shedevry zhivopisi i graviury epokhi Edo 1603 – 1868 / Masterpieces of Edo Paintings and Prints
Moscow: Muzei izobrazitel'nykh iskusstv im. A.S. Pushkina, 2018. Sewn pb. This catalogue of a large exhibition at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow publishes works from four Japanese museums and two Russian museums dating to the Tokugawa period (Edo period). The catalogue actually publishes more works than can..... More
Trudy Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha, LXXXIV, Geral'dika: Issledovaniia i praktika / Transactions of the State Hermitage Museum, LXXXIV, Heraldry: Research and Practice
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2017. Articles in this issue of the Hermitage series cover coats of arms of various periods, such as those of Prince Pashkevich that adorned his mansion in St. Petersburg in the mid nineteenth century and contemporary ones designed to distinguish cities and regions of the Russian Federation..... More
The Image and Its Public in the Middle Ages: Form and Function of Early Paintings of the Passion
New Rochelle, New York: Aristide D. Caratzas, 1990. Sewn cl. English edition of Das Bild und sein Publikum im Mittelalter:‘Form und Funktion früher Bildtafeln des Passion revised by the author with a new chapter on the importation of icons to the West. What was the function or task of an image..... More
Gollandskaia zhivopis' XVII – XVIII vekov. Katalog kollektsii, tom 3, Mander I – Reiskh / Dutch painting, Seventeenth – Eighteenth Centuries. Catalogue of the [Hermitage] Collection, vol. 3, Mander I – Ruysch, 9785907653153
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2023. Sewn cl. The works published in this volume of the Hermitage's catalogue of its Dutch painting collection range from famous masterpieces to lesser known works being published for the first time. Especially strong in this volume are Leiden painters, Rembrandt's forerunners, and painters of late mannerism..... More
Kluby postroennye po programme profsoiuzov 1927–1930 (Clubs built according to the program of the trade unions, 1927–30), 9785902667063
Moscow: Muzei arkhitektury im. A.V. Shchuseva, 2010. Sewn pb. This catalogue of the Shchusev Museum of Architecture in Moscow has interest from several points of view: aesthetically, it publishes works of the late 1920s central to the history of avant-garde architecture; second, it describes innovations in construction; third, it chronicles..... More
Ispolin russkoi slovesnosti. K 250-letiiu so dnia rozhdeniia Nikolaia Mikhailovicha Karamzina. Katalog vystavki (The Giant of Russian Literature: [published on the occasion of] the 250th Anniversary of the birth of Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin)
Moscow: Pashkov dom, 2016. Pb. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Russian State Library publishes Russian editions and Western European editions of books by and about Karamzin, who was the first author in Russian to write fiction according to the conventions of the novel as they were developing in..... More
Tat'iana Mavrina: oda k radosti (Tat'iana Mavrina: ode to joy)
Moscow: Tret'iakovskaia galereia, 2020. Sewn cl. The artist over 200 of whose works are published in this catalogue of an exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery is far from obscure, but her place in the history of twentieth-century art is elusive — she had a long and prolific career, worked in..... More
Trudy Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha, LXXXI, Materialy i issledovaniia otdela numizmatiki. Po materialam Mezhdunarodnoi konferentsii "Dva veka musul'manskoi numizmatiki v Rossii. Itogi i perspektivy" / Transactions of the State Hermitage Museum, LXXXI, Materials and researches of the Numismatics Department. Based on the Proceedings of the International Conference "Two Centuries of Islamic Numismatics in Russia. General Results and Prospects"
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2017. Pb. The articles published in this issue of the Hermitage's Transactions derive from a conference at the Hermitage in 2012 "Two Centuries of Islamic Numismatics in Russia: Summaries and Perspectives." The beginning of the Hermitage's collection dates to Peter the Great's time, when Peter started the..... More
Vremia Dorrera (The Age of [Valerii] Dorrer)
St. Petersburg: Rossiiskii institut istorii iskusstv, 2013. sewn pb. Ten museums, theaters, and the artist's family contributed set and costume designs to this catalogue of works by a major artist of the twentieth-century Soviet theater. In these works of the mid 1940s to the early 1980s Dorrer shows that he..... More