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: Herm, 2020. Sewn cl. The Hermitage's eminent curator of Western-European painting looks closely at the museum's masterpiece St. Peter and St. Paul from several points of view. She interprets the content as a possible dialogue between Peter and Paul inferring from their countenances and postures how each one..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2021. Sewn cl. 183 p., 32 cm, Rus. and ENGLISH. More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2021. Sewn pb. The author of this Hermitage catalogue traces the image of Psyche personifying the spirit or soul from ancient art to Western European and Russia art of the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. She finds examples in several genres including sculpture, drawing, decorative arts, painting..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2020. Pb. 359 p., approx. 300 b/w and color illus., Rus. with title page, table of contents, and summaries in ENGLISH. More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2021. Pb. 371 p., Run: 350. More
St. Petersburg: KGallery, 2020. More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2020. Sewn cl. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Russian Museum gives credit to the donors, patrons, and collectors from the late nineteenth century to the present whose gifts to the museum make up the bulk of its collections. The Imperial Family were among the..... More
Moscow: Gostudarstvennyi muzei istorii russkoi literatury imeni V.I. Dalia, 2020. Sewn pb. The history of art owes much to those who have had the inspiration, knowledge, and means to build great collections that become museums. In the Soviet period acknowledging the role of private collectors was overlooked — most of..... More
Moscow: Pami a tniki istorichesko mysli, 2007. Sewn cl. 341 p, 23 cm, approx. 50 b/w illus., Rus. More
Moscow: Gos Istoricheskii muzei (GIM), 2020. Sewn cl. Some of the works are by major artists of the period such as Vasilii Vershchagin, Nikolai Makovskii, Vasill Polenov,and Alexander Benois. Although this is not a scholarly monograph, the authors seek to give a fair chronicle of the different aspects of Alexander's..... More
Moscow: Indrik, 2020. Sewn cl. Contacts with Mt. Athos, where monks perpetuated the Byzantine aesthetic century after century, strengthened the awareness of a thread connecting Russian art to Byzantium. As the study of art and history developed in the nineteenth century, religious art, icons first of all, came to be..... More
Moscow: Sev pal, 2020 (1st ed. 2008). sewn cl. The icons catalogued here span the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; many works date to a transitional period when Western and secular elements began to penetrate the medieval Eastern Orthodox canonical style of icon-painting. Detailed commentary, list of exhibitions, bibliographies and especially..... More
Moscow: Muzei drevnerusskogo iskusstva im. Rubleva, 2020. Sewn pb. Icons, crosses, and other portable objects of ritual were an important part of a pilgrim's journey: first of all, they testified to the pilgrim's having reached a sacred destination, whether Mt. Athos or the Holy Land or one of the early..... More
Moscow: Muzei drevnerusskogo iskusstva im. Rubleva, 2020. Sewn pb. The icon that is subject of this catalogue of the Rublev museum comes from the Kostroma region and dates to the late seventeenth century. The author explains its distinct characteristics, both content and style. Basing his work on a tradition of..... More
Moscow: Muzei drevnerusskogo iskusstva im. Rubleva, 2020. Sewn pb. Popular prints originating in Old Believer communities of the 19th century belonging to Moscow collectors are here published from a Rublev Museum exhibition. Images are strong as a form of folk art closely related to icon painting and reflect both standard..... More
St. Petersburg: Abris / Petergof, 1996. saddle-stitched. 34 p., 25 cm, approx. 40 color illus., ENGLISH. More
St. Petersburg: Abris / Petergof, 1997. saddle-stitched. 34 p., 25 cm, approx. 40 color illus., ENGLISH. More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2020. Sewn cl. The Hermitage's collection of ancient sculpture received strong impulses from Peter the Great's, Catherine the Great's, and Alexander I's purchases of sculptural works and entire collections. Other vital sources were archeological excavations of ancient Greek colonies along the Black Sea and private collections of..... More
Kaliningrad: Muzei mirovogo okeana, 2018. Sewn cl. This is an exemplary example of collaboration between museums whose various strengths complemented one another. The State Museum of the Orient/Museum of Arts of Asian Peoples in Moscow, the Russian Ethnographic Museum in St. Petersburg, the Peter the Great Museum of Ethnography and..... More
St. Petersburg: Novyi muzei Aslana Chekhoeva, 2020. Sewn cl. More
St. Petersburg: Arka, 2009. sewn cl. The capital of the Russian Empire inspired artists, both Western European and Russian, throughout its history. The images published here from works in the Hermitage were made by Pieter Picart (Pickaert), Efim Vinogradov, Aleksei Zubov, Grigorii Makhaev, Andrei Martynov, Benjamin Paterssen, Maksim Vorob’ev, Carl..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2014. sewn cl. The author, curator at the Hermitage of Spanish painting from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century, publishes in this Hermitage monograph her research on the great collections of Spanish painting that were 2built in the Russian imperial capital over two centuries. Scholarly tools..... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2005. Sewn cl. This edition of the Russian Museum continues the series publishes works by Russia's first secular artists. Their subjects range from battle scenes to portraits and landscapes. Lacking the texture of oil paintings, they possess an immediacy and freshness that makes that strong works..... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz. More
St. Petersburg: Avrora. pb. More