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: Garazh, 2021. Pb. Section headings: pathos and catharsis; what is the meaning of dance; distance and trust in theatrical communication; theatrical engineers; performance theater; time of the revolution; speech and revolution; 246 p., 19 cm, approx. 20 color and b/w illus., Rus. More
Kazan: State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan, 2021. Pb. These rarely seen work of th late sixteenth century is published in this catalogue with full page illustrations and many details. The hisotry of the icon type and the provenance of this work are among the topics..... More
St. Petersburg: Liki Rossii, 2020. Sewn cl. Chapter titles: Anxious Years (1939–40); 1940; From Moscow to Stalingrad 1942; Breakthrough in 1943; The Year of Stalin's Strikes: 1944; Lend Lease and the Soviet Air Force; Victorious 1945. List of airplanes; Name index. 303 p., 30 cm, approx. 300 b/w illus., Rus..... More
Riga: Arthur Bondar, 2026. The photographs published here were taken by a Soviet war photographer Olga Ignatovich from 1941–45 on the Eastern Front and at the death campls after their liberation. As photography they are forceful works of an expert photojournalist; as visual documents, they tell the grisly story of..... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2026. Sewn cl. Ivan Shishkin was to the forest what Turner was to the sea. He spent his career spanning the last few decades of the nineteenth century sketching and painting the forest in different light and in different seasons. From the shiver of a twilight..... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2026. Sewn cl. Working in the first half of the nineteenth century, Tropinin continued the work of the early portraitists such as Borovikovskii and Levitskii, and created a body of secular portraits that combined an attention to the personality of his subject, a deromantized and keen..... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2007. Sewn cl. This album publishes vivid examples from the the 1840s through the 1990s of enamel painting from the folk art center of Zhostovo, The early works are of great variety: snuff boxes with the portrait of Peter the Great, jewelry boxes with winter landscapes..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2024. Sewn pb. During the first four decades of the nineteenth century Mitrokhin worked on saving paintings that were deteriorating; his notable achievement was developing the transfer technique which could save a painted image on a deteriorating ground. This catalogue of a Hermitage exhibition publishes paintings that..... More
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2012. Saddle-stitched. This catalogue of works by American artists on the idealized theme of a Jewish autonomous region in the USSR publishes thirty drawings and prints from the Russian Ethnography Museum. The works idealize the settling of a region in eastern part of the Soviet Union set..... More
Serpukhov: Serpukhovskii istoriko-khudozhestvennyi muzei, 2026. Saddle-stitched. Most of the professional painters of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries trained in Paris or at lease visited. Under the influence of Impressionism, they returned to St. Petersburg and Moscow and created one vein of Russian modernism — figurative but not realistic..... More
St. Petersburg: Pavlovsk, 2025. Sewn pb. Emperor Paul and his wife Maria Fedorovna began collecting books that would end up in the library at Pavlovsk during their trip to Europe in the 1780s. Pavel continued to add to the library until his death in 1801, and Maria Fedorovna further enriched..... More
St. Petersburg: Evropeiskii universitet, 2025. Sewn pb. This edition in European University Press’s series on the avant-garde art publishes a facsimile of a work created in Switzerland in 1924 and summing up the the achievements of artists during the previous decade. The authors identify as separate directions in art about..... More
St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii religii, 2025. Sewn pb. This catalogue draws on the collection of works related to the Hindu religion and originating in India. It parallels an exhibition "Gods and People of Southern India" at the Museum of the History of Religion, but publishes works reflecting Hinduism in all..... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2001. Sewn cl. Closely related to lubki (popular prints) the flat rectangular wooden surfaces of distaffs were ideal for painting. Colorful geometric patterns reminiscent of American Indian art, still-lives of flowing bouquets of flowers, and genre scenes of dining, tea drinking, sledding, and hunting represent the..... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2007. Sewn cl. The miniature paintings on lacquered boxes, wood carving for tools and ornamentation, ceramic works enlivened by floral and geometric patterns, sculpted wooden icons are among the works published in this overview of the Russian Museum's collection of folk art. Most works are by..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2026. Sewn pb. The approximately 100 works published in this catalogue of a Hermitage exhibition are varied enough to give a sense of how forms and decoration evolved over the last four centuries. Though lacking the brilliant imagery of porcelain, Yixing ceramics have a quiet beauty of..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2024. Many of the heraldic arms and orders published here originated with the imperial family and principal aristocratic families (dvoriane) such as the Yusupovs, Stroganovs, Bobrinskiis and Yepanchins. Others relate to different segments of society like enterprises and businesses As a whole they reflect the values of..... More
Moscow: Muzei izobrazitel'nykh iskusstv im. A.S. Pushkina, 2025. Sewn cl. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts publishes works by Chagall from Russian museums and private collections. Most of the works were done while Chagall was in the Russian Empire and revolutionary Russia — the..... More
Moscow: Muzei Anatoliia Zvereva, 2019. Sewn pb. The Soviet film maker Andrei Tarkovskii was often inspired by visual arts — perhaps his greatest movie is about the fifteenth-century icon-painter Andrei Rublev. The author writes about Tarkovskii and other directors of the period in the context of the movements in visual..... More
St. Petersburg: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1991. Sewn cl. Associated with the Itinerants, but having a broader range than socially conscious subjects, Polenov stood out for his passion for getting an idea into paint. He was equally persuasive painting dramatic moments such as Christ in the desert, a girl on her sick..... More
St. Petersburg: Terra, 1992. Sewn cl. This is the first post-Soviet book to publish a panoply of archival photos from the imperial period, which show both favorable and unfavorable aspects of the last phase of the imperial period. Section headings: Coronation; the most august family; pages from a life; epilogue;..... More
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Serpukhov: Serpukhovskii istoriko-khudozhestvennyi muzei, 2025. Sewn cl. This catalogue of an exhibition at a regional museum draws on works in nine museums and two private collections. together the paintings give us a look at how seascapes change from period to period and show through one changes in one genre the..... More
Moscow: Muzei russkogo impressionizma, 2025. Sewn cl. Fifty-nine museums, galleries and collectors lent works to this exhibition, and many works from regional museums and private collections will be a discovery. Paintings of the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries predominate; also published are drawings, posters and archival..... More
Moscow: Krasnyi parokhod, 2024. Sewn cl. The author, a Leningrad - St. Petersburg native and Hermitage scholar, discourses in this memoir about growing up in the late Soviet period, working as an art historian in the city that as the home of the Hermitage, Kunstkamera, Russian Museum and masterpieces of..... More
Yerevan: Emma Chookaszian, 2024. Sewn cl. This is the first monograph devoted to the illuminated Gospel manuscripts which originated in the Armenian kingdom of Cilicia and was commissioned by Queen Keran in 1272. The manuscript is housed at the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem (manuscript number 2563), and scholarly access is..... More