Bronze Horseman books travels to Russian and international book fairs several times a year to select books on World Art in Russian collections and Russian art and architecture books based on the interests of our customers at museum and university libraries, art historians, scholars of Slavic visual culture, and collectors. Between trips our book professionals in St. Petersburg and Moscow send us samples of important new books. Please see below descriptions of books we have recently added to our stock.
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 1996. Sewn pb. A Hermitage catalogue of works by the Italian artist who made his career in St. Petersburg and whose bright and scrupulously detailed drawings left a unique record of the buildings and interiors of the palaces in and around the the capital like Anichkov, Tsarskoe..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2006. Sewn pb. Painting as a means of chronicling court life became an anachronism as photographic techniques improved in the second half of the nineteenth century, yet the Danish painter Laurits Tuxen, thanks to the patronage of the empress Maria Fedorova, wife of Alexander III and daughter..... More
St. Petersburg: Muzei Anny Akhmatovoi, 2012. sewn pb. These photographs from the late nineteenth century through the second world war give a sense of a strong woman whose family suffered from the cruelties of the Soviet regime but who managed in spite of all to keep creating great literature. Excerpts..... More
St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii Sankt-Peterburga, 2019. Sewn cl. The banners for each trade or craft like the coats of arms in heraldry used in a nutshell their activities and significance through emblem their into the language, Clockmakers, lamplighters, blacksmiths, bakers, shoemakers, pewter makers, and barbers were among the many crafts..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2002. Sewn pb. Publishing works in painting and sculpture done between 1955 and 1999, this Hermitage exhibition catalogue gives a sense of the changing interests of the late American artist and his ability to create in several genres. 128 pp., 8 5/8 x 11 1/4 ins., 106..... 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
St. Petersburg: ARS, 2003. Sewn pb. As the idea of the museum took root in Europe in the first half of the nineteenth century, Nicholas I (r. 1825–55) decided to build a special wing of the Winter Palace to publicly display the emperor’s collections. Impressed by Leo von Klenze’s work..... More
St. Petersburg: 1995. Sewn cl. Culling and correcting terms from dictionaries and architecture books published in Russian from the 1790s to the 1980s, Pluzhnikov has compiled an essential book for art and architectural historians who want a precise understanding of building and interior descriptions in Russian sources. 156 pp., 8..... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2005. Sewn cl. The pieces in this Russian Museum exhibition catalogue, including some only recently attributed to Martos, demonstrate that the sculptor (1754–1823) famed for the dignity and grandeur of his sepulchral monuments and historical statuary (e.g., Minin and Pozharskii on Red Square) was also adept..... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 1997. saddle-stitched. Influenced by ancient sculpture from the Black Sea coast and by Michaelangelo, Ignat’ev shapes figures from marble, granite, wood, and bone in a way that is both contemporary and traditional. This brief Russian Museum catalogue illustrates samples of his work from the 1990s. 12..... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 1999. Saddle-stitched. Fifteen sculptures in wood by an unconventional artist are presented in this brief Russian Museum catalogue. Kaminker made these works in the 1980s and 1990s; they have an angular primitivism reminiscent of African masks. 20 pp., 7 x 10 ins., 15 b-&-w illus., saddle-stitched..... More
St. Petersburg: Art-Biuro, 1999. Sewn cl. Saturated with historical, political, and cultural memories, the former imperial capital has recorded its past in myriad plaques, which the compilers illustrate and describe in this scrupulous unique reference book. 608 pp., 5 3/4 x 8 1/4 ins., 689 b-&-w illus., sewn cl., Rus..... More
St. Petersburg: Iskusstvo Sankt-Peterburg, 2002 (1st ed. 1971. Sewn cl. The author reveals the sculptural richness of St. Petersburg as expressed in architectural ornament and statues that depict animals. The author has revised this new edition by adding illustrations, including drawings and paintings of public monuments incorporating lions, updating the..... More
Moscow: Lingva–F / Muzei Moskvy, 2014. Sewn cl. The phenomenon of the road palace arose in the Russian imperial period: having founded a new capital on the Baltic, Peter the Great and his successors in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries still needed to travel to Moscow where customary court rituals..... More
Nizhny Novgorod: Kvarts, 2014. Sewn cl. This monograph Studies the space allotted and the buildings and squares designed for what became in the nineteenth century one of Europe's largest (in turnover of goods and money, and in number of visitors and participants) trade fairs. Prints, paintings, and archival photos show..... More
Ekaterinburg: Tatlin, 2017. Pb. This edition of the series on notable architectural designs in an urban setting publishes an interview with the architects and builders of a new wing of the Alexander Theater in St. Petersburg and copious visual documents on the project. Connecting two distinguished spaces, the embankment of..... More
St. Petersburg: 1997. Sewn cl. This monograph published by the Hermitage Museum publishes works of Khan Kubrat, the seventh-century leader who formed Old Great Bulgaria and left a hoard stumbled upon by a Ukrainian herder at Pereshchepino near Poltava in 1912. His identity is inferred from archaeological finds, especially a single..... More
St. Petersburg: Akademiia iskusstv, 2003. Sewn pb. The first section of this catalogue exhibits works by Russian painters of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, including N. A. Bruni, K. P. Briullov, A. Ia. Golovin, I. E. Repin, F. A. Maliavin, I. I. Levitan, A. E. Arkhipov, N. K. Roerich..... More
Kazan: 2009. sewn cl. This catalog was published to accompany an exhibition at the Republic of Tatarstan State Museum of Fine Arts, Kazan. The names of Andrei and Ivan Likhachev are inseparable from the history of collecting and museum activities in Kazan, where they opened the first public collection of..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2002. Sewn pb. An exquisitely illustrated exhibition catalogue on the impulse the tsar gave to the expansion of the Hermitage collections: he added a distinguished building, and through his trip to Italy he greatly enriched the sculptural holdings of the Hermitage, and by acquiring paintings by Francesco..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 1998. Sewn pb. Exhibiting works from two complementary collections, the Hermitage and the Pinakothek, Munich, the curators juxtapose sketches and final works to reveal how Rubens developed a raw conception into a mature painting. 80 pp., 8 3/8 x 10 5/8 ins., 35 b-&-w, 16 color, pb...... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2004. Sewn pb. Many of the fifth-century B.C. gold staters from the hoard found in 2003 shimmer in mint condition; most valuable, though, are the three whose images have no parallels in previous finds. Authors use the Hermitage’s permanent collection to juxtapose the Myrmekion coins with fifty..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2000. Sewn pb. Greek tablets of the third century b.c. recording time, a plate with embossed image of Helios, and cameos with the activities of different seasons; books of hours, medallions, clocks indicating phases of the moon; Japanese silk scrolls depicting the seasons; almanacs and modern calendars..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2006. Sewn pb. The author points out the significance of Philipp Heinrich Müller’s work in European medal art; traces how Russian art adopted in the early eighteenth century Western European imagery; explains the use of the medals in diplomacy, service, and politics; and traces the history of..... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2008. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Russan Museum shows the cubist sculpture, unique in twentieth century among sculptors working in the late tsarist and Soviet periods. Korolev's experimental forms were to avant-garde even in the avant-garde period — his statue of Bakunin, for example..... More