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. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Hermitage presents the work of a great twentieth-century photographer and designer who had a surprising affinity for Russia: he visited the workers' state in 1935 and took striking pictures in Leningrad and Moscow, including a snow-laden self-portrait;..... More
Chisinau: Museului National de Istorie a Moldovei, 2019. Sewn cl. This publication presents the results of excavations of 56 kurgans on the territory of the Republic of Moldova. The kurgans contained over 350 graves belonged to the wide range of archaeological cultures, from the late Eneolithic to the late Middle Ages. Appendix provides..... More
Chisinau: Museului National de Istorie a Moldovei, 2019. Sewn cl. This catalogue is the first complete publication of anthropomorphic figurines of the Cucuteni culture kept in the National Museum of the History of Moldova. Most of the figurines came from excavations of settlements dated to the second half of the 5th millennium BC..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2020. Sewn cl. Based on an exhibition at the Hermitage this monograph seeks to trace the lineage of Raphael — art works that the author believes grew out of the style that Raphael developed in the early sixteenth century. He identifies key traits of Raphael's style and..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2020. Sewn pb. This Hermitage publishes in this exhibition catalogue research on an ancient stone monument which constitutes a gigantice slab of inscriptions on trade and which was brought to the Hermitage in 1901. Also published are works of stone funeral sculpture and ceramics tesserae, which originated..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2020. sewn cl. This catalogue of an exhibition at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg publishes the artifacts and works of art dating to the first millennium b.c. from four great museums: the Hermitage, the State Historical Museum in Moscow, the A.S. Pushkin Museum of Fine..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2020. Sewn cl. This Hermitage exhibition catalogue homes in on the theme of the connections between contemporary art and Old Master paintings, in particular between the paintings of the Romanian artist Adrian Ghenie and the work in the Hermitage which he believes inspired him to become an..... More
Moscow: Galart, 2010. Sewn cl. Shukhaev's career as an artist began just before the 1917 revolution and extended into the 1960s. His acquaintance with major writers and artists such as Alexander Benois and Maksim Gorkii makes his memoirs and correspondence a valuable source on the cultural milieu of the late..... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2012. Sewn cl. After leaving Russia soon after the 1917 revolution Grigoriev lived and worked in various countries, twice teaching and painting in Chile. Some his works of these years (late 1920s and mid 1930s) are in Chilean museums, and they are published in this Russian..... More
Moscow: Muzei Vostoka, 2008. Sewn pb. Paintings centered in great cities and legendary places inspired the artists whose works from the 1920s to the early 21st century are published in this catalog of an exhibition of the Museum of the Orient (Muzei Vostoka, State Museum of the Art of the..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2010. Sewn cl. The term "jewelry" in the title is used in the broad sense of anything made of precious metals and stones. Chalices and bible covers, a cup belonging to Anne of Cleves, a German figurine of a workman thought to have been acquired by Peter..... More
St. Petersburg: Kolo, 2019. Sewn pb. More
St. Petersburg: Kolo, 2020. Sewn pb. The works of enamel tiles that distinguish late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century interiors and façades in Russia came from a relatively small number of craft factories. This monograph focuses on the enamel tile workshop/factory of Mikhail Kharlamov in St. Petersburg. Founded by his father..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2020. Sewn pb. The works of Carl Fabergé's studios had no direct followers after the 1917 revolution. The consummate level of craftsmanship, the richness of materials, benefiting especially from Russia's mineral and gem deposits, and the flight of fancy that characterize Fabergé's best works demanded a clientele..... More
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Cheboksary: Chuvashkoe knizhnoe izdatel'stvo, 2018. Sewn cl. The author has amassed many examples of jewelry and metalwork most dating from the ninth to the fifteenth centuries to convey the continuity of design between the Volga Bulgars, Suvars, and their contemporary descendants the Chuvash. 125 p., 30 cm, approx. 600 color..... More
Moscow: Gos Istoricheskii muzei (GIM), 2020. Sewn cl. These works from the department of treasures at the State Historical Museum (Moscow) have interest as fine examples of Russian, Western European and Near Eastern metalwork (e.g., Iran, Azerbaizhan); as relics of periods when beautiful objects designed with gold were the most..... More
Moscow: Muzei Shchuseva / Kuchkova pole, 2020. Sewn pb. Aleksei Shchusev's design of the Kazan Railway Station (design ca. 1912) is considered a masterpiece of architecture and urban planning. Shchusev met practical needs of a modern transport hub while attaining aesthetic excellence — architectural forms and the imagery of interior..... More
St. Petersburg: Kolo, 2009. Sewn cl. The richness of the visual material—plans, drawings, archival and new photographs—together with a text that draws together many strands of architectural history from the first settlements at the mouth of the Neva to the baroque and neoclassical ensembles of the eighteenth and early nineteenth..... More
S.I. Verkhov, 2019. Sewn cl. The collection of a provincial museum has not the extent or depth of a the major museums in St. Petersburg or Moscow, but the Rybinskii Museum-Preserve has representative examples of all significant styles from the neoclassical 1770s to the early Soviet propaganda imagery and all..... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2018. Sewn cl. The drawings and watercolors published in this Russian Museum catalogue come from a 2017 gift to the museum — an archive of over 100 graphic works by Kasimir Malevich that were preserved by Anna Leporskaya, a student of Malevich in the 1920s at..... More
Kirov: Muzei Vasnetsovykh, 2007. Saddle-stitched. This succinct catalogue of an exhibition shows the paintings and drawings by those who trained with Matiushin at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leningrad in the 1920s, where he ran a department called "Institute of Realistic Space." 29 p., 21 cm, approx. 30 color..... More
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2004. Sewn cl. Presented are the most noteworthy examples of silverwork from Russia’s leading museums, including the Hermitage, the Armory of the Moscow Kremlin, the State History Museum, and the All-Russian Museum of Decorative and Folk Arts. Many sixteenth- and seventeenth-century masterpieces, formerly owned by Russian princes..... More
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2004. Sewn cl. The Hermitage has a superb collection of Western European embroidery (approximately 1500 articles), most of which, owing to their sensitivity to light and air, are in closed storage. Publishing 307 of its finest works in this catalogue, the museum displays altar hangings and vestments..... More
Kazan: Zaman. Sewn pb. One way in which the Soviet authorities used art as a tool of propaganda is evident in this catalogue of mainly local artists who learned the ways of modernism from their Soviet brethren. The Kazan Art School after 1917 became the Architecture and Art Studios (ArKhMas)..... More