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: ? 2018. These staged photos by a major Leningrad/St. Petersburg artist are caricatures of Soviet types. Based on a gallery exhibition, the catalogue publishes both Belkin's photographs and the drawings he used to stage the scenes. 103 p., 24 x 28 cm, Rus. More
Moscow: Muzei Shchuseva, 2019. Sewn pb. M MShch Having trained at VKhuTeMas (Vyshie khudozhestvennye i tekhnicheskie masterskie, Higher Artistic and Technical Studios) with Alexander Vesnin, Milinis designed and built several projects that are now classics of the,architectural avant-garde: 1, 2, 3 free of ornament, showing the form boldly, new needs..... More
Moscow: Burganov-Tsentr, 2013. Sewn cl. The Totma museum’s colllection catalogue in the Bugarov series on relatively unknown works of sculpture originating in churches of the Russian north and now in distant northern city museums, is especially strong in the distinctly Eastern Orthodox forms of church art: royal doors and iconostases..... More
Moscow: Bliznetsy, 2018. Sewn cl. These written and visual documents by and about the designer of the constructivist masterpiece in Moscow, the building for the newspaper Izvestie, fill our our knowledge of avant-garde architecture and its relation to styles that preceded and followed it. Rare archival photos, especially of interiors..... More
Moscow: Muzei Shchuseva, 2019. Sewn cl. Selected Chapter titles: Shukhov’s method: formula to construction to architecture; the engineer’ calculations; the network of contemporary beauty; Shukhov’s constructions and contemporary research on their preservation; the mechanism of architecture: method in the context of the development of contemporary science; networks welded from steel..... More
Moscow: Ad Marginem, 2019. Sewn pb. This catalogue of an exhibition marks a fruitful collaboration of a private collector and Russia's preeminent public museum, the Hermitage, which yields fresh juxtapositions and material for new interpretations of the sixteenth-century textiles and decorative arts. In addition to sixteenth-century tapestries from Western Europe..... More
Moscow: Literaturnyi muzei, 2019. Sewn cl. This catalogue of works by the illustrator of the classics of nineteenth-century literature points out that the artist’s knack for finding memorable images and delineating apt portraits came from both his talent as an illustrator and his familiarity with Moscow, where he spent his..... More
St. Petersburg: Boslen. Sewn cl. P REM / Their shine and jingle, shape and symbolism have made coins apt for decorating traditional clothing among many peoples. Articles of clothing and jewelry from the Russian Ethnography Museum, the Peter the Great Museum of Ethnography and Anthropology (Kunstkamera), and the Belgrade Ethnographic..... More
Moscow: Burganov-Tsentr, 2010. Sewn cl. The initiators and sponsors of this edition in an ambitious series on Russian sculpture — Burganov Museum of Classic and Contemporary Art, Stroganov State Art and Industry Academy, and the Sol’vychegodsk Historical and Art Museum — tap the rich but relatively unstudied works of Northern..... More
Moscow: Kolomenskoe-Izmailovo-Liublino Muzeinoe ob"edinenie, 2019. Sewn pb. In the twenty-nine years since the fall of the Soviet system and the end of the oblivion to which the Romanovs and the tsarist regime had been relegated many books and exhibitions have published archival photos and artifacts from the circle of the..... More
Moscow: Tret'iakovskaia galereia, 2019. Sewn pb. This is an example of a relatively new kind if catalogue for Russian museums: it honors a donor and publishes works that he or she has donated to the museum. Oleg Iakhont’s collection focuses on twentieth-century sculpture and drawing: Boris Korolev, Ilya Mashkov, Boris..... More
Moscow: Moskovskii muzei sovremennogo iskusstva, 2019. Sewn pb. Every genre seems to have been kindred to Popova: besides her famous cubist paintings, she did poster art (slogans and announcements), textile designs, clothing patterns, even postcards, and this catalogue of an exhibition at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art publishes examples..... More
Moscow: Muzei Anatoliia Zvereva / Tret'iakovskaia gallereia, 2019. Sewn pb. This catalogue draws on both an exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery’s Krymsky Val branch for twentieth-century and contemporary art and on several exhibitions in Italy and inspired by the the film maker Andrei Tarkovskii mad initiated by the Anatolia Zverev..... More
Sewn pb. 134 pages, 36 unnumbered pages of color plates, 26 cm, Rus. More
St. Petersburg: EGO, 1997. Sewn cl. Russian, Italian, Austrian, and French artists painted these likenesses that range from naive reminders of absent friends to portraits on a high artistic level. The latest research clears up many attributions and provides biographical information on previously unknown subjects. 214 pp., 5 x 7..... More
Moscow: Muzei istorii GULAGa, 2018. Sewn cl. Boris Kreitser trained in the 1920s as an architect but was later accused of formalism and switched to book illustration. His father before the revolution was an engineer and often traveled with his family abroad. In 1938 these factors in his biography were..... More
St. Petersburg: Dmitrii Bulanin, 2018. Sewn cl. This monograph attempts to reconstruct the content of the major libraries in the Rostov Yaroslavl region — The Rostov Bishopric House and the Saviour Monastery in Yaroslavl — from their earliest days in the thirteenth century until their closing and dispersal after the..... More
Voronezh: Sakhalinskii oblastnoi kraevedcheskii muzei/Favorit, 2018. Sewn cl. The first third of this book catalogues the material culture and works of art from the colony of Koreans living on the island of Sakhalin; subsequent chapters publish written and visual documents about the Korean settlement. Contents: everday articles; ceramics and metalwork;..... More
Sakhalin: Iuzhnyi Sakhalin Sakhalinskii oblastnoi kraevedcheskii muzei, 2010. Saddle-stitched. Contents: flora; land animals; marine life, coastal animals; amphibians and reptiles; birds; prehistory of Sakhalin and Kurile Islands; indigenous peoples; discovery and exploration; mid 19th to early 20th c.; Russo-Japanese War; north Sakhalin; World War II; post-war; museum collections. 20 p...... More
Sakhalin: Iuzhnyi Sakhalin Sakhalinskii oblastnoi kraevedcheskii muzei, 2012 (2nd ed.). Saddle-stitched. This catalog publishes approximately 40 examples of carved wooden objects used in the ritual ceremony of accompanying a bear to the god of the mountains. Scholars identify the carvings on the wooden objects as usually representing boats or animals..... More
Sakhalin: Iuzhnyi Sakhalin Sakhalinskii oblastnoi kraevedcheskii muzei, 2005. Saddle-stitched. The ethnographer and deputy director of the Sakhalin Museum, which he helped to found at the end of the second world war, Zherebtsov collected the objects of Aino everyday life published here in 1948 as the Aino people were emigrating (or..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2006. Sewn pb. 253 p., 28 cm, approx. 200 color illus, Rus. with Summary and index in English. Epokha Mentselia: Risunki nemetskikh masterov XIX veka ( M. O. Dedinkin This catalogue displays works of sixty-five artists from the collection of the Hermitage. In extensive entries the author..... More
2001. Pb. This handbook covers Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and twelve other sites in Europe and Asia, logging facts on construction, closing in the Soviet period, recent openings, and restorations. 464 pp., 110 b-&-w illus.,Rus. More