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: Tret'iakovskaia galereia, 2021. Sewn cl. Studying with Malevich Kudriashev was taken with the new art and developed his own form of Suprematism. He helped form a branch of UNOVIS (Uchrediteli novogo iskusstva, Establishers of the New Art) in Orenburg, and a photo from 1920 shows him sitting between Malevich..... More
Kazan: Zaman, 2020. Sewn cl. Seventeen museums and private collections lent works for this catalogue about an artist whose works form part of southern Russian avant-garde centered in Kazan. The range of Moshchevitin's book illustrations of the 1920s was extraordinary from sinister takes on Poe and Wilde to merry covers..... More
Moscow: Muzei russkogo impressionizma, 2019. Sewn pb. Though these works have appeared in other publications, the Museum of Russian Impressionism in its exhibition and catalogue attains a unique overview of the movement or style as embraced or adapted Spain by uniting paintings from approximately 25 Spanish museums and private collections..... More
St. Petersburg: Tsarskoe Selo, 2019. Sewn pb. Most of the works of Asian sculpture and metalwork entered Tsarskoe Selo's collections in the eighteenth century when Charles Cameron was designing the interiors according to the taste of Catherine the Great. Others were acquired by Grand Duke Nicholas Alexandrovich (future Nicholas II)..... More
Moscow: Muzei russkogo impressionizma, 2017. Sewn cl. Mayakovsky called Shemiakin "a realist-impressionist-cubist", and the pithy description was accurate, for Mikhail Shemiakin painting throughout the first half of the twentieth century synthesized the main European styles of the time into something of his own. 183 p., 29 cm, approx. 120 color..... More
Kazan: Zaman, 2021. Sewn cl. This catalogue of a Tretyakov Gallery exhibition is exceptional for publishing works by a major twentieth-century Russian and American painter (after emigrating became well known for his depictions of southwestern America and its native inhabitants) from his hometown — Kazan. The State Museum of Fine..... More
Kazan: Zaman, 2019. Sewn pb. This is the first scholarly catalogue of the editions of the Koran published in Kazan between 1816 and 1918. Each book is described in detail and the colophon with basic data about the edition is reproduced in Tatar or Arabic. The publication of the Koran..... More
St. Petersburg: Frants Art Foundation, 2020. Sewn pb. This is the first catalogue to publish works in all genres and all periods in the career of Vera Matiukh, who was born in Berlin but came to the Soviet Union at age thirteen in the heyday of the Russian avant-garde. She..... More
Moscow: Muzei Moskovskogo Kremlia, 2021. Sewn pb. Nadia Léger-Khodossevitch studied with Malevich in the 1920s. After emigration to France she practiced various genres and styles but in the 1970s inspired by the first manned space programs she returned to suprematist forms which, as she interpreted Malevich, express mankind's striving to..... More
Moscow: Teatral'nyi muzei Bakhrushina, 2021. Sewn pb. The curators of the exhibition at the Bakhrushin Museum of Theater on which this catalogue is based tie together different genres — photography, poster art, stage design, painting and drawing — and different periods through the image of flight in Russian art, theater..... More
St. Petersburg: Tsarskoe Selo, 2019. Sewn pb. Receiving permission from the court, the Society of St. Eugenia between 1904 and 1915 published about 120 postcards the subject of which was the palace and park of Tsarskoe Selo imperial residence. Drawings by artists of the World of Art Mstislav Dobuzhinskii and..... More
St. Petersburg: Tsarskoe Selo, 2019. Pb. This catalogue of an exhibition at Alupkinskii Palace and Park Ensemble in the Crimea publishes works of art and artifacts from the Tsarskoe Selo collections which relate to public and private facets of Alexander III's life and career. Photographs of interiors at Tsarskoe Selo..... More
St. Petersburg: Tsarskoe Selo, 2018. Sewn pb. The catalogue comprises awards, commemorative medals and badges (zhetony), and badges for philanthropic initiatives. Appendix 1 explicates the cluster of awards (kolodka), orders and medals worn by Alexander II in various portraits. Appendix 2 presents pieces designed for the 200th anniversary of Tsarskoe..... More
Moscow: Tret'iakovskaia galereia, 2020. Sewn cl. The Tretyakov Gallery has sixteen works from the the most elusive period of early Russian painting, the 1100s and 1200s. Published here are the results of many years of research on these works: writing pages of commentary on each icon, the authors use stylistic..... More
Moscow: Muzei Moskovskogo Kremlia, 2019. Sewn cl. The Kremlin Museums publish here the first complete catalogue (except for picture frames) of its Fabergé collection, some of which have not been previously published. Close attention is give to hallmarks, which are reproduced in a fifty-page appendix. The works ranges from unique..... More
Moscow: Garazh, 2020. Sewn pb. Select Chapter titles: Sharpening of the visual sense; Montage: the art of cutting and pasting; Visual about-face: airplanes instead of crosses; "Truth" in pictures; The 2 Fathers of the Soviet photomontage; Avant-Garde of a simplified reality: as children saw Lenin; Lenin's road: from great leader..... More
Moscow: Galart, 2006. Sewn cl. Political cartoons for the periodical Crocodile made the artist well-known for his satire... His targets changed depending on the politics of the day: in the 1920s he attacked the nepman and the drunk; in the 1930s and 40s set aim at Hitler and the Nazis;..... More
Moscow: Buksmart, 2020. Sewn pb. This catalogue publishes works of religious art, primarily icons and metalwork, but also manuscripts, that come from various museums, libraries, and private collections, such as the Rogozh Old-Believer Commune and the Moscow Old Believer Metropolitanate, and were exhibited at the Academy of Fine Arts in..... More
Moscow: Muzei Shchuseva / Kuchkovo pole, 2020. Sewn pb. This catalogue of the Shchusev Museum of Architecture looks at church art from several points of view: the aesthetic quality of seventeenth-century frescoes preserved at the museum, conservation achievements of curators and museologists, and the policies of the Soviet regime toward..... More
St. Petersburg: Tsarskoe Selo, 2019. Sewn pb. 176 + 48 p., 27 cm, approx. 150 color and b/w illus., Rus. Identifying the empress's anglomania at Tsarskoe Selo; Charles Cameron, teacher of English taste; English books in Catherine II's private library; John and Ann Bush's portraits in the context of Catherine's..... More
St. Petersburg: Tsarskoe Selo, 2017. Sewn pb. The visual documents published in the first half catalogue of this Tsarskoe Selo Museum chronicle the imperial family's last year under house arrest in the Alexander Palace at Tsarskoe Selo and then imprisoned at a mansion in Tobol'sk. Many come from the personal..... More
St. Petersburg: Tsarskoe Selo, 2020. Sewn cl. This monograph and compilation of documents published on the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II chronicles the risks taken by museum workers to prepare works from the museum's collections for evacuation even as the Nazi onslaught came closer and to..... More
Moscow: Tret'iakovskaia galereia, 2020. Sewn cl. The artist came from a merchant family, studied art at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, and then trained in Paris at Académie Julian and in the studio of the engraver Eugène Delâtre, became part of the creative circles of the Silver..... More
St. Petersburg: Muzei teatral'nogo i muzykal'nogo iskusstva, 2020. Sewn cl. The Museum of Theater and Music Art in St. Petersburg together with over forty other museums, archives and private collections in Russia, Western Europe, and the United States publishes in this catalogue of an exhibition paintings, drawings, and prints about..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2021. Sewn pb. This is the first exhibition devoted to ecclesiastical vestments in the Hermitage's collection. The works themselves are presented as fine textiles — materials and techniques, styles and patterns are examine — and as a genre of costume. Most example originate with clergy that served..... More