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.
Moscow: Tat'iana Solomennaia, 2021. Pb. The articles in this journal survey and research Russian, Soviet, and contemporary art, give overviews of individual museums and collections, and publish material relevant to attribution and collecting. 103 p.,, 30 cm, approx. 100 color illus., Rus. More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2002. Saddle-stitched. As the first wing of the Winter Palace-Hermitage to be designed as a public museum, the New Hermitage had a vital cultural mission, educating the subjects of the emperor and impressing upon them the grandeur of the state. Bearing the burden of the first impression..... More
St. Petersburg: Art Palas, 2006. Sewn cl. More
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
Moscow: Muzei dekorativno-prikladnogo i narodnogo iskusstva, 2023. Sewn pb. This is the first publication of manuscript pages originating in a Old-Believer community in the early nineteenth century. The style of the miniatures is archaic and typifies the Old Believers' adherence to the medieval canon. 60 p., 22 cm, approx. 30..... More
Moscow: Muzei drevnerusskogo iskusstva im. Rubleva, 2022. Sewn pb. Kirikov spent several decades restoring works by Andrei Rublev, in some cases according to fifteenth-century methods. He was also an artist and a copyist, and this catalogue of an exhibition at the Rublev Museum publishes his work together with essays on..... More
St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii religii, 2021. Sewn pb. The articles published in this number of the State Museum of the History of Religion’s Transactions are organized by subject: the museum’s collections, museology, the history of religion and religious art, conservation of museum works. Specific topics include the photographs of the..... More
St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii religii, 2020. Sewn pb. The articles published in this number of the State Museum of the History of Religion’s Transactions fall into several categories: collections of the museum, religious studies, attribution, material from the archives. Individual articles touch on such subjects as Iconography of Japanese Buddhism..... More
St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii religii, 2019. Sewn pb. History of the collections, the museum in the early Soviet years and during World War II , religious studies, conservations, and archival materials are the subject headings for this number of the museum’s Transactions. Specific topics range from masonic imagery to anti..... More
Moscow: Muzei Moskovskogo Kremlia, 2023. Sewn pb. The director of the Museums of the Moscow Kremlin, venue and publisher of the exhibition and catalogue, in her introduction avoids any nationalistic cant and emphasizes the international character of Christianity and its art. Works from five museums contributed works to the exhibition..... More
Moscow: Muzei drevnerusskogo iskusstva im. Rubleva, 2023. Sewn pb. ISBN: Organized by the historical period, these works illustrate vitae of saints canonized in Rus’, Muscovy, and the Russian Empire. The most eminent saints such as Sergii Radonezhskii and Serafim Sarovskii are depicted in numerous works; individual works of other local..... More
Moscow: Muzei drevnerusskogo iskusstva im. Rubleva, 1922. Sewn cl. The 81 works published in this catalogue of the Rublev Museum of Medieval Russian Art and Culture cover several genres of applied and decorative art. The artistic metalwork comprises reliquaries, chalices, ritual plate, and icon lamps many of which are finely..... More
Moscow: Muzei drevnerusskogo iskusstva im. Rubleva, 1923. Sewn cl. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Rublev Museum traces the iconography of Christ’s final days mainly on the evidence of icon-painting but also in the imagery of metalwork, embroidery and wood carving. Works date from the seventeenth to the nineteenth..... More
St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii religii, 2019. Sewn pb. This periodic edition of the Museum of the History of Religion in St. Petersburg publishes research on works in the collection from Russian icons to Chinese paintings and on varied themes stemming from the collections such as Jesuit libraries in Russia, posters..... More
St. Petersburg: Muzei Akademii khudozhestv, 2023. Sewn pb. The works published in this catalogue of an exhibition at the Academy of Arts Museum in St. Petersburg give a sense of how Soviet art schools worked: they trained students in the rigorous but traditional abilities to draw, paint, sculpt with accuracy..... More
St. Petersburg: Rossiiskaia natsional'naia biblioteka, 2022. Pb. The topics of these research articles published in honor of a curator and scholar at the Russian National Library include Slavonic manuscript and book culture, heritage of the Petrine epoch, and European books and manuscripts in Russia. The illustrations publish engravings and pages..... More
St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii Sankt-Peterburga, 2022. Sewn pb. This catalogue of the art collections of the Kirov Museum in St. Petersburg shows the extent to which art and politics were intertwined in the Soviet period. Kirov was a revolutionary who took part in the 1905 uprising, after which he was..... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2023. Sewn pb. This Russian Museum exhibition catalogue publishes works by an early twentieth-century painter which are difficult to classify. Bogaevskii grew up on the Crimea and in childhood began to draw its exotic landscapes. He studied at the Academy if Fine Arts first with Ivan..... More
St. Petersburg: Pavlovsk, 2022. Sewn pb. The theme of this catalogue of an exhibition at Pavlovsk Museum Preserve is the role of private benefactors in restoring the museum’s collections ravaged by the sales of the Soviet regime in the 1920s and 30s and by the vandalism, theft, and destruction of..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2023. Sewn pb. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Hermitage uses works of fine, applied, and decorative art to show how the discovery or recognition of the richness Russian medieval art and architecture reshaped visual culture from the mid nineteenth century to the early twentieth. The author’s..... More
St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii religii, 2023. Sewn cl. Advertising and theatrical posters were widespread in late imperial Russia. The 1917 revolution and the Soviet government’s efforts to inculcate a new ideology meant a boom in political posters. One plank of the Soviet government aimed to suppress religion and teach Marxism-Leninism-Stalinism..... More
Moscow: Art - Sobranie, 2021. Sewn pb. The publisher whose editions are catalogued here typifies the early Soviet period in good and bad ways. The Soviet campaign to end illiteracy created a need for literature: children's books were published in record runs. The seamy side of the period was the..... More
St. Petersburg: Pavlovsk, 2023. sewn pb. The author summarizes the formation of the collection and catalogues 117 works noting origin and provenance, method of manufacture, technique, materials, dating, condition, and artistic traits. Many of the works are published here for the first time. The scholarly apparatus includes bibliography, index, list..... More
St. Petersburg: Pavlovsk, 2022. Sewn pb. Seven museums and archives contributed works of art and historical artifacts to the exhibition at Pavlovsk Museum on which this catalogue is based. It focuses on a shadowy episode in the history of the imperial family. Nicholas I’s son Konstantin (Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich)..... More
St. Petersburg: Muzei teatral'nogo i muzykal'nogo iskusstva, 2020. Pb. The first half of this book uses black and white photographs, drawings, and quotations to chronicls Sergei Diagilev's career in Russia and in Western Europe. What Diagilev meant to his contemporaries comes forth vividly in the words of composers, artists, poets..... More