New Arrivals

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.

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L. I. Petrova

Pochtovaia kartochka na sluzhbe voennoi propagandy. Pervaia mirovaia voina. Iz sobraniia Gosudarstvnnogo muzeia istorii Sankt-Peterburga. Al’bom-Katalogm (The postcard in the service of military propaganda during the first world war: postcards from the collection of the State Museum of the History of Saint Petersburg. Album-catalogue)

St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii Sankt-Peterburga, 2018. Sewn pb. Cards published in Russia, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Germany, France and England show postcards as a way to both raise money and morale. 351 pages, approximately 600 color illustrations, Rus. with captions on cards and place of publication in the original languages. More

Price: $82.00

M. I. Bashmakov, M. V. Balan, A. V. Volkova, S. G. Lotov

Ar deko: knigi iz sobraniia Marka Bashmakova. Katalog vystavki (Art deco books from the collection of Mark Bashmakov: exhibition catalogue)

St. Petersburg: Herm, 2018. Sewn cl. These examples of books, journals, almanacs, and albums illustrated (sometimes designed and composed) by artists usually known for their work in other genres — František Kupka, Sonia Delaunay, Juan Gris, Fernand Léger, Alphonse Mucha, Raoul Dufy, André Derain, Henri Matisse, for example — display..... More

Price: $104.00

I. B. Gogulina, G. V. Dorofeeva

Pechat’ i revoliutsia: izdaniia 1917–1922 godov v fondakh gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha. Katalog vystavki / Publishing and the Revolution: Publications from 1917 – 1922 from the State Hermitage Museum's Holdings. Exhibition Catalogue

St. Petersburg: Herm, 2018. Sewn cl. This Hermitage catalogue of publications from the revolutionary and civil war years stems from a multifaceted exhibition in 2017 marking 100 years since the tsarist regime was overthrown. The books, pamphlets, prints, posters, and sundry other works on paper have political interest — they... More

Price: $92.00

I. R. Bagdasarova, N. Iu. Bakhareva

Ne ver’ glazam svoim. Obmanki v iskusstve. Katalog vystavki (“Believe not thine eyes”: Trompe l’oeil in Art. Exhibition catalogue)

St. Petersburg: Herm, 2018. The authors introduce this catalogue of a large Hermitage exhibition with an outline of the way artists since ancient times have relished the use of illusion in their works from creating a sense of three dimensions on a flat surface to imitating size and texture of... More

Price: $146.00

S. B. Adaksina, A. V. Tsvetkova et al.

Restavratsiia proizvedenii stankovoi zhivopisi v Gosudarstvennom Ermitazhe. Seriia “Prodlennaia zhizn’...”, vypusk 3/ Conservation and restoration of easel paintings at the State Hermitage. Series: Prolonged Life, issue 3

St. Petersburg: Herm, 2018. Pb. Sixteen case studies explain methods and technology of restoring easel paintings at the Hermitage and show how restoration furthers art historical research sometimes leading to insights on attributions, technique, and stylistic nuances. The sharp illustrations reveal condition of works at various stages of restoration. 225... More

Price: $81.00

N. K. Serebriannaia

Frantsuzskaia zhivipis’ XV – XVII vekov. Katalog kollektsii (French painting 15th to 17th centuries catalog of the [Hermitage] collection)

St. Petersburg: Herm, 2018. Sewn cl. This is the first publication to catalogue comprehensively the Hermitage’s collection of French painting over three rich centuries, for which its collection is considered unsurpassed outside France. The publication of masterpieces by famous artists is bolstered by representative works by less well-known artists of..... More

Price: $142.00

A. A. Babin, E. P. Renne

Zhivopis’ skandinavskikh stran i Finliandii XVIII – XX vekov. Katalog kollektsii (Paintings from Scandinavia and Finland 18th – 19th centuries. Catalog of the [Hermitage] collection)

St. Petersburg: Herm, 2018. Sewn cl. A full presentation of the Hermitage’s collection of paintings by Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, and Finnish painters comes only once in a generation or so and incorporates decades of curators’ research. Though small by comparison with its collections of Western European painting, the collection has..... More

Price: $94.00

S. O. Androsov

Imperskie stolitsy: Sankt-Peterburg – Vena: shedevry muzeinykh kollektsii (Imperial capitals: St. Petersburg - Vienna: Masterpieces of museum collections)

St. Petersburg: Herm, 2018. Sewn bp. This catalogue publishes twenty-eight paintings from an original and elegant exhibition at the Hermitage based on parallels between two collections and their prime collectors: Catherine the Great of Russia and Marie Therese of Austria. The curators and designers present great paintings in a way... More

Price: $68.00

V. V. Shcheglov, O. G. Zimina (introduction and commentary)

Sobstvennye ego imperatorskogo velichestva biblioteki i arsenal: kratkii istoricheskii ocherk 1715 – 1915

St. Petersburg: Herm, 2018. Pb. This history of the Hermitage library and arsenal (arms were for some reason considered part of the Romanovs’ book collection) at its two-hundredth anniversary became its comprehensive history: the Russian Empire ceased to be two years later, and there was no longer a private library... More

Price: $60.00

L. M. Gavrilova

Inostrannye ordena rossiiskikh imperatorov v sobranii muzeev Moskovskogo Kremlia (Foreign orders of Russian Emperors in the collection of Museums of the Moscow Kremlin)

Moscow: Muzei Moskovskogo Kremlia, 2018. Sewn cl. This catalog of the collection of foreign orders, decorations, and medals in the Moscow Kremlin Museums stems from many years of research by the collection’s curator who used both archival records in Russia and secondary literature published in Russia and abroad. She updates..... More

Price: $138.00

Soobshcheniia Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha LXXV / Reports of the State Hermitage Museum LXXV

St. Petersburg: Herm, 2018. Sewn pb. This issue of the Hermitage’s annual journal publishes (now published in Russian and English) twelve articles on various aspects of the collections — collecting modern French painting at the turn of the twentieth century, exhibiting ancient gold, equestrian imagery in Coptic textiles, and Hellenistic..... More

Price: $73.00

Muzei Moskovskogo Kremlia. Materialy i issledovaniia, vypusk 28. Oruzheinoe sobranie Muzeev Moskovskogo Kremlia: pamiatniki, istoriia, problem izucheniia (Museums of the Moscow Kremlin: materials and research, 28. Collection of the Armory of the Moscow Kremlin: works, history, challenges of study)

Moscow: Muzei Moskovskogo Kremlia, 2018. Sewn pb. Subjects of research include Western European armorers working at the Armory chamber during the 17th century; a Western European ceremonial helmet its iconography and origin; a unique Mongolian helmet; mythological subjects in the ornamentation of German weapons; a gift from Louis XIV to... More

Price: $64.00

G. Shishkina, A. Iusupova

Shedevry zhivopisi i graviury epokhi Edo 1603 – 1868 / Masterpieces of Edo Paintings and Prints

Moscow: Muzei izobrazitel'nykh iskusstv im. A.S. Pushkina, 2018. Sewn pb. This catalogue of a large exhibition at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow publishes works from four Japanese museums and two Russian museums dating to the Tokugawa period (Edo period). The catalogue actually publishes more works than can... More

Price: $125.00

M. N. Butyrskii, I. A. Oretskaia, M. B. Mindlin

Zapechatlevshie istoriiu: vizantiiskie i drevnerusskie pechati iz chastnykh sobranii / History Imprinted in Seals: Byzantine and Medieval Russian Seals from Private Collections

Moscow: Muzei drevnerusskogo iskusstva im. Rubleva, 2018. Sewn pb. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Andrei Rublev Museum of Medieval Art and Culture illustrates a healthy phenomenon in exhibiting and publishing art in Russia: state museums are collaborating with private collectors, which makes their collections accessible to those who... More

Price: $77.00

Elena Rudenko

Pod odnim nebom: Frantsuzskaia i russkaia zhivopis’ vtoroi poloviny XIX – XX vekov iz sobraniia Inny Bazhenovoi

Moscow: In Artibus, 2018. Sewn pb. Published together in this catalogue of an exhibition of works from a Moscow private collection are French painters like Braques, Bonnard and Derain alongside a range of twentieth-century Russian artists. The curators and authors thus develop the theme of how artists learn from each... More

Price: $52.00

T. M. Muntyan

Faberge Easter Masterpieces from the Collection of the Fabergé Museum in St. Petersburg

St. Petersburg: Muzei Faberzhe, 2018 (1st edition 2014). Sewn cl. Archival photos of the those who commissioned Fabergé’s most renowned works and commentary on the occasions for which such lavish gifts were commissioned — engagement, coronation, anniversary of a dynasty — give a context to the technical and design aspirations..... More

Price: $78.00

Nailia Al’meniva-Khalit

Tartarskii arkhitekyurnyi ornament (Tartar architectural ornament)

Kazan: Tatarskoe knizhnoe izdatel’stvo, 2017. Sewn cl. The drawings and photos published here give an overview of the old Muslim city’s architectural taste from the Islamic designs of the middle ages to it’s absorption into in the Russian Empire in the 18th century and adoption of European styles. Works by..... More

Price: $48.00

O. V. Strugova, N. O. Krestovskaia

Russkaia reznaia kost’ XVIII – XIX vekov iz kollektsii sem’i Karisalovykh. Katalog vystavki (Russian carved ivories of the 18th and 19th centuries from the collection of the Karisalovy family)

Moscow: Rudentsovy, 2018. Sewn cl. The works published in this exhibition catalogue come from a private Moscow collection and from the Hermitage, the Russian Museum, and the Vladimir-Suzdal Museum Preserve. Virtuosity in ivory carving was attained in the northern region of Russia (Arkhangelsk, Kholmogory) that was on the main trading... More

Price: $144.00

M. Iu. Samoilenko et al.

Kniga glazami dizainera: vedushchie dizainery knigi predstavliaiut raritety iz sobraniia Rossiiskoi gosudarstvennoi biblioteki (The book in the eyes of the designer: leading book designers present rare works of book art from the collection of the Russian State Library)

Moscow: Pashkov dom, 2016. Sewn cl. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Museum of the Book at the Russian State Library publishes fifty examples of rare books from various countries and centuries. The second section of the catalogue presents about one hundred recent books which in the judgment of... More

Price: $51.00

V. E. Loviagina

Risunki detei blokadnogo Leningrada iz sobraniia Gosudarstvennogo muzeia istorii Sankt-Peterburga (Children's drawings made during the Blockade of Leningrad from the collection of The State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg)

St. Petersburg: Muzei Istorii Stank-Peterburga, 2016. Sewn cl. The albums of drawings by amateur artists compiled during the blockade of Leningrad constitute spontaneous and forceful visual chronicle. Those by children are among the strongest as this album from the collection of the State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg... More

Price: $82.00

Mikhail Karev

Plakaty velikoi otechestvennoi (Posters of the Great War for the Fatherland)

Moscow: Kontakt-kul'tura, 2014. Sewn cl. Graphic art during the The Great Fatherland War (World War II) was instrumental in boosting the morale of civilian population. Concentrating the country's emotions on hatred of Hitler and making defeat unthinkable, the artists created many strong images that show the forcefulness of posters as... More

Price: $58.00

O. G. Zimina et al.

Ermitazhnaia biblioteka: stranitsy istorii Noveishego vremeni, 1918–2018 (The Hermitage Library: pages from recent history, 1918–2018)

St. Petersburg: Herm, 2018. Sewn pb. This catalog of an exhibition at the Hermitage looks at formation of the hermitages reference library since 1918. Formed on the basis of the Hermitage library dating to 1762 and the libraries of the Imperial family and other private collections including the libraries of... More

Price: $72.00

Sylvie Buisson, Maria Salina, Irina Lebel’

Parizhskie vechera baronessy Ettingen / “Les Soirées de Paris” de la baronne d’Œttingen

Moscow: Muzei izobrazitel'nykh iskusstv, 2018. Sewn pb. Russian, Finnish, French, and Swiss museums, private collections and family archives contributed works of art and written documents to the exhibition at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Art that seeks to recreate the aura of a French salon of the first half of... More

Price: $72.00

L. I. Alekhina, M. E. Bashlykova, A. V Gamlitskii

Bibleiskaia teatr Martina Engel’brekhta: siuzhety sviashchennoi istorii v zapadnoevropeiskoi knizhnoi graviure / The Biblical Theater of Martin Engelbrecht: Scenes from Sacred History in Western European Book Engraving

Moscow: Muzei drevnerusskogo iskusstva im. Rubleva, 2018. Sewn pb. This catalog of an exhibition at the Andrei Rublev Medieval Russian Art and Culture Museum has interest first for its publication of a recently restored monument of European book art — a mid-eighteenth-century bible engraved by the German artist Martin Engelbrecht—and..... More

Price: $73.00

Natalia Sviridova, Gleb Ershov, Andrei Rossomakhin

David Burliuk. Slovo mne! (David Burliuk. It's my turn to speak)

St. Petersburg: Muzei russkogo avangarda, 2018. Sewn cl. The exhibition and catalogue comes on the crest of many new first hand materials: paintings, poems, diaries, notebooks have been published or exhibited during the last two decades which enable us for the first time to see Burliuk in the round as... More

Price: $92.00

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