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: Dmitrii Bulanin, 1999. Sewn cl. The first exhaustive study on the works of sculpture which Peter the Great acquired in the early eighteenth century through his agents in Italy S. L. Raguzinskii and Iu. I. Kologrivov. Now located in the Summer Gardens, Petergof, the Catherine Palace at Tsarskoe..... More
A far-ranging monograph that surveys manifestations of the art of wood carving wherever they appear: church doors and columns in medieval Rus’, interiors of imperial palaces, bows of sailing ships, eaves and window frames of peasant houses. 168 pp., 8 1/2 x 11 1/4 ins., 161 b-&-w illus., sewn cl...... More
St. Petersburg: Liki Rossii, 2011. This monograph is the first study devoted to the creation of imperial monuments in Russia set in the context of a similar trend in Western Europe. The publication spans the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, when Russian monumental..... More
1997. Sewn cl. The author reconstructs life on the nobleman’s rural estate in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, focusing on architecture, interior design, landscaping, and the estate as the center of social and cultural life in the countryside. 320 pp., 6 5/8 x 8 3/4 ins., 143 b-&-w illus.)..... More
2000. Sewn cl. Writing in the early twentieth century, the author unfolds the cultural life on Russian country estates, examining the care given to architecture and interior decoration, the work of peasant artists, and the eventual decline of country life as failure to modernize made estate life economically impracticable. 320..... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 1995. Saddle-stitched. A catalogue of a Russian Museum at the Stroganov Palace exhibition of the coroplast's art offering specimens of neoclassical and romantic sculpture by I. P. Prokof'ev, I. M. Moiseev, I. P. Martos, M. I. Kozlovskii, and N. S. Pimenev who, in the eighteenth-century custom..... More
Moscow: Terra-Knizhny klub, 2002. Sewn cl. The authors use abundant written and visual documents to the origins of architectural preservation in Russia. They show how Russian artists and architects and intellectuals gradually became aware of the aesthetic achievements of their ancestors and of the need to save them. The authors..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2020. Pb. These articles stem from a 2015 conference hosted by the Hermitage and the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts in St. Petersburg. In the second volume scholars from Russia and other countries present their research on various aspects of pre-Islamic Iran: history, linguistics, art and archaeology. 385..... More
St. Petersburg: Iskusstvo-SPb, 2001. Sewn cl. Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century St. Petersburg makes a fitting source for the study of these architectural details that combine the skill of sculptors and builders. 240 pp., 5 x 6 1/2 ins., 80 b-&-w illus., sewn cl., Rus. More
St. Petersburg: Muzei teatral'nogo i muzykal'nogo iskusstva, 2019. Saddle-stitched. The desk where the Rimskii-Korsakov created his works, usually working without a piano thanks to his amazing internal hearing, the parlor as it was during the composer's life, where he hobnobbed with other composers and artists, Vasilii Serov's great portrait, archival..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2020. Sewn pb. The Hermitage as the richest repository of Russia's artistic heritage — its core collections consisting of great works of world art collected by the ruling family, court, and gentry over several centuries — was after the human toll the most significant target and victim..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2020. Sewn pb. Near Eastern textiles, Indian miniature paintings, Russian and Western European painting, a fourth-century B.C. terracotta dance figurine, the collaboration of the Hermitage with the British Museum over Scythian art, and the relationship between prints and oil paintings are among the themes of the research..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2018. Sewn pb. The Hermitage reports highlight the past year’s achievements in research, conservation, and exhibitions. Hermitage scholars concentrating on single works or collections make known their findings on attribution, dating, and interpretation. They point out significant acquisitions and publish research and documents on the history of the..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2018. Sewn cl. Examples of Picasso's collaborations providing images for such writers as André Salmon, Pierre Reverdy, Apollinaire, Gongora, André Suares, Paul Eluard and classics like Ovid, Aristophanes, and Balzac. 95 p., 27 cm, approx. 150 color illus., Rus. and FRENCH. Run: 300. More
Moscow: Ad Marginem, 2020 (1st ed. 1922). Sewn cl. This is a facsimile edition (slightly smaller) of Lisitskii's 1922 book not to be read but used as instructions to assemble, color, build (skladyvaite, kras'te, stroite) with colors and shapes. Dating to his time with UNOVIS (Utverditeli novogo iskusstva, Affirmers of..... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz. Sewn cl. Eight Russian and four French collections lent works for the exhibition at the Russian Museum of which this is the catalogue. The recurrent theme of the introductory chapters is the connection of Chagall's homeland to his creativity in Russia and in emigration. Works done..... More
St. Petersburg: Avrora, 2008. Sewn cl. Formed in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the Moscow school of icon-painting is celebrated as the alma mater of such geniuses as Andrei Rublev and Dionysius. Rublev is credited for heralding a new period in the history of Moscow icon-painting. In his work he..... More
St. Petersburg: Avrora, 2007. Sewn cl. The Pskovian school of icon-painting has long been recognized as an artistic phenomen in its own right. Having the good fortune to escape Tatar-Mongol devastation, Old Pskov, like Novgorod, carefully preserved its artistic traditions through the centuries. Pskov icons painted in keeping with ancient..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2020 (2nd enlarged ed.; 1st ed. 2005). Sewn cl. Most of those who worked at the Hermitage when Hitler's troops invaded the Soviet Union were trapped for the next two and a half years of the blockade to face with other Leningraders shelling, famine, and cold. Their..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2020. Pb. These articles stem from a 2015 conference hosted by the Hermitage and the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts in St. Petersburg. In the second volume scholars from Russia and other countries present their research on various aspects of Islamic Iran: history, linguistics, art and archaeology. 361..... More
Kazan: Zaman, 2013. Sewn cl. Works from the collection of avant-garde art at the Republic of Tartarstan Museum of Fine Arts. Published are seldom seen works by such artists as Natan Altman, David Burliuk, Natalia Goncharova, Vasilii Kandinskii, Petr Konchalovskii, Mikhail Larionov, Aristarkh Lentulov, Liubov Popova, Alexander Rodchenko, Vladimir Tatlin..... More
Moscow: Blits / MGOMZ, 2012. Saddle-stitched. The authors analyze the construction and design of a great sixteenth-century church ensemble. They use varied visual documents from drawings of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to photographs of the Soviet and post Soviet periods to show unique aspects of the church's design. 23..... More
Moscow: IP Verkhov S.I., 2014. Sewn pb. This edition in the series Famous Iconostases (Znamenitye ikonostasy Rossii) publishes recently restored icons of the mid seventeenth century painted for an early fifteenth-century church in Zvenigorod. 17 p. + pls., approx. 50 color illus., Rus. Series: Famous Iconostases of Russia (Znamenitye ikonostasy..... More
St. Petersburg: Dmitrii Bulanin, 1997. Sewn cl. In this edition of the authoritative series Russian, Greek, Serbian, and Bulgarian scholars rehabilitate the thirteenth century, arguing that the decline of old centers of the arts such as Kiev and Constantinople did not leave a void, but rather opened the way to..... More
St. Petersburg: Dmitrii Bulanin, 1995. Sewn cl. This edition of the series has new scholarship on specific aspects and works of Eastern Orthodox art: wall paintings in the Kremlin’s Annunciation Cathedral; Rublev’s work on the Zvenigorod frescoes; fifteenth-century frescoes at Gostinopol’e; the Byzantine influence on late fifteenth-century Novgorod frescoes; the..... More