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.
![Kozyr'ki Sankt-Peterburga / Canopy tools [metal awnings and marquees] of St. Petersburg). B. A. Kalinichev.](/pictures/thumb/2706.jpg?v=1523989867)
St. Petersburg: Gumanitarnaia akademiia, 2017. Sewn cl. In this elegantly produced survey of a frequent architectural element on St. Petersburg buildings of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, the author selects the most artistic examples from several stages of the city's architectural history (eclecticism and art nouveau, and neoclassicism) and... More
Moscow: Muzei Shchuseva / Kuchkovo pole, 2017. Sewn pb. The color drawings drawings published here that Shekhtel' was as inventive as a designer as he was as an architect composing elements of large forms: mansions, churches, banks, office and apartment buildings — besides overall architectural form and construction Shekhtel' crafted... More
Moscow: RA, 2004. sewn cl. Besides creating seminal paintings of the Russian avant-garde, Malevich built the theoretical framework for new forms of art as elaborated in these written works and his correspondence. Vol. 2: 679 p., 26 cm, approx. 150 b/w, 10 color illus, Rus. More
Moscow: Muzei izobrazitel'nykh iskusstv, 2014. Sewn pb. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts focuses on two major figures of the Russian avant-garde, Varvara Stepanova and Alexander Rodchenko, who were protean artists applying their creativity in many directions: painting, costume design, photography, toy design, poster... More
Moscow: Muzei Shchuseva, 2017. Sewn pb. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Shchusev Museum of Architecture in Moscow publishes design drawings by a Russian architect whose career coincided with several styles of European and Russian architecture (art nouveau, Russian revival and Stalinist empire) but whose own work had no... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2017. Pb. 325 p., 25 cm, approx. 50 and b/w illus., Rus. with title page and summaries in ENGLISH. Series: Trudy Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha (Transactions of the State Hermitage Museum). Run: 400. More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2018. Sewn cl. The late deputy director of exhibitions at the Hermitage had many areas of expertise, and his knowledge of mechanisms to tell time makes possible this catalogue covering several centuries (primarily 16th–19th); various fields such as the history of technology and artistic metalwork; and a.... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2017. Sewn cl. This is a history of art history, in particular, how the Hermitage's great collection of Spanish painting became part of world scholarship through collaboration with Western European specialists, continuous study, and publication, all of which was initiated and furthered by the curator of the... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2017. Sewn pb. Reports are an annual publication of the Hermitage publishing research of its curators on individual works of art, attributing and dating works more accurately and examining lesser known works, Broader articles present acquisitions during the past year, restoration and preservation projects, new exhibitions, redesigned... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2018. Sewn pb. In its imaginative exhibition of glass and lace together, the Hermitage juxtaposes works in different media to point out parallels in design. Pattern books emerging in the sixteenth-century were used by both lace- and glass-makers. Certain terms such as reticello and Sol had meaning... More
St. Petersburg: Herm. The new Soviet regime politicized art immediately after taking over: it wasn't enough for a work to be well wrought and meet high aesthetic standards: it had to have a didactic purpose, which was to inculcate the goals of the revolution, the union of peasant and worker... More
![Risunki Vasiliia Sadovnikova. Katalog kollektsii. Gosudarstvennyi muzei istorii Sankt-Peterburga (Drawings [Watercolors] of Vasilii Sadovnikov. Catalogue of the the collection of the State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg). K. V. Zhitorchuk G. B. Vasil'eva.](/pictures/thumb/2693.jpg?v=1523988787)
St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii Sankt-Peterburga, 2017. Sewn pb. This catalogue of the collection of Sadovnikov's works at the Museum of the History of St. Petersburg spans the 1830s through the 1860s. We see much more than the used anthologized images of the imperial capital's most famous vistas. Sadovnikov also did delicate... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2017. Sewn pb. Works from Western Europe restored at the Hermitage during the last year include a coffer from Augsburg, an English chandelier, and a French clock, all of the eighteenth century; German sculpture and stained glass; and an Italian firfteenth-century fresco. Ancient and medieval works such... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2017. Saddle-stitched. The Hermitage has a concise kind of exhibition catalogues aiming to reveal the essence of a large collection by well chosen representative examples. A carpet from the Altai region dating to the third century B.C., a linen and wool medallion shaped portrait from fourth-century Egypt... More
Moscow: Moskovskii muzei sovremennogo iskusstva, 2017. More
!["Da budet pamiat'..." K 300-letiiu Rossiiskoi i Novo-Nakhichevanskoi eparkhii Armianskoi apostol'skoi tserkvi. Katalog vystavki ("In memoriam..." [Published] On the 300th Anniverssary of the Russian and Novo-Nakhichevan Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church). D. O. Vasil'eva A. K. Ermolaeva.](/pictures/thumb/2688.jpg?v=1523988663)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2017. Sewn pb. Works commissioned by the Armenian church in St. Petersburg during in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and now at the Hermitage are the subject of this exhibition catalogue. Metalwork and textiles comprise reliquaries, crosses, chalices, candle holders, and bible covers; miters, altar cloths, and... More
Moscow: Moskovskii muzei sovremennogo iskusstva, 2017. Sewn pb. The theme of this catalogue of an exhibition at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art is the influence of the great Catalonian architect of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century not only on modern architecture, but on other genres of modern... More
St. Petersburg: Pavlovsk, 2017. Sewn pb. The lace and fans at Pavovsk Museum-Preserve supplement its collection of eighteenth- and ninteenth-century costume. Lace articles used in dress and dresses made of lace originate in France, Belgium, and Russia, and make up about two thirds of the catalogue (91 works); fans from... More
St. Petersburg: Artguide Exitions / Garazh. Sewn pb. Exhibitions, reviews, personalities, research, analysis, tendencies, artists' texts, and theory are the categories under which the editors organize the articles in this journal illuminating the current Russian art scene. Copublished by Garage Museum of Contemporary Art. 176 p., approx. 100 b/w illus., Rus. More
St. Petersburg: Artguide Exitions / Garazh. Sewn pb. Exhibitions, reviews, personalities, research, analysis, tendencies, artists' texts, and theory are the categories under which the editors organize the articles in this journal illuminating the current Russian art scene. Copublished by Garage Museum of Contemporary Art. 212 p., approx. 100 b/w illus., Rus. More
St. Petersburg: Artguide Exitions / Garazh. Sewn pb. Exhibitions, reviews, personalities, research, analysis, tendencies, artists' texts, and theory are the categories under which the editors organize the articles in this journal illuminating the current Russian art scene. Copublished by Garage Museum of Contemporary Art. 216 p., approx. 100 b/w illus., Rus. More
St. Petersburg: Artguide Exitions / Garazh. Sewn pb. Exhibitions, reviews, personalities, research, analysis, tendencies, artists' texts, and theory are the categories under which the editors organize the articles in this journal illuminating the current Russian art scene. Copublished by Garage Museum of Contemporary Art. 152 p., approx. 100 b/w illus., Rus. More
St. Petersburg: Artguide Exitions / Garazh. Sewn pb. Exhibitions, reviews, personalities, research, analysis, tendencies, artists' texts, and theory are the categories under which the editors organize the articles in this journal illuminating the current Russian art scene. Copublished by Garage Museum of Contemporary Art. 184 p., approx. 100 b/w illus., Rus. More
St. Petersburg: Baltikum, 2015. pb. 167 p., 29 cm, approx. 400 color illus., Rus. and ENGLISH. ISSN: 1994-9367. More
St. Petersburg: Baltikum, 2015. pb. 166 p., 29 cm, approx. 400 color illus., Rus. and ENGLISH. ISSN: 1994-9367. More