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
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
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, 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
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, Noril'sk: Muzei Noril'ska, 2019. Sewn cl. This catalogue on Rodchenko and those who experimented in various genres creating in varied avant-garde styles photography, painting, drawing, architectural design, advertisement, and poster. Chapter headings: The avant-garde city; the arctic as a cultural landscape; dreams; planes, circles, lines; space and perspective; the..... More
Moscow: Rudentsovy, 2020. Sewn pb. This catalogue of sixty-six selected bindings from the Moscow University Library demonstrates the work of a private binding workshop formed by the eminent military officer (e.g., head of allied artillery in war against Napoleon) and diplomat (represented Alexander I's government in Persia). A bibliophile from..... More
Moscow: Gosudarstvennyi Institut iskusstvoznaniia, 2019. Sewn cl. The foremost specialist on Western European illuminated manuscripts in Russian collections broaches large questions on the history of miniatures and painting in medieval Western Europe in the first section of this book (especially French manuscripts of the fifteenth century after the 100 Years..... More
Moscow: Sev Pal, 2019. sewn cl. In this volume of the multi-volume history of Russian art undertaken by the Institute of Art History (Moscow) — the first such undertaking in two generations — a team of eight authors headed by Engelina Smirnova, the eminent historian of icon-painting, describes and interprets art and..... More
2000. Sewn cl. D. N. Goberman A well illustrated monograph containing unprecedented research on Jewish art, history, and visual culture, this book covers an unusual aspect in the legacy of Jewish art in Eastern Europe: The stone carvings on eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century tombstones show a raw beauty that evokes..... More
St. Petersburg: Abris / Petergof, 2001. Saddle-stitched. St. Petersburg’s suburban ensembles are famous for their palaces designed and constructed by outstanding Western European and Russian architects. Often overlooked are the ancillary buildings, which, however, were designed by the same talented architects who did the famous palaces. This concise survey shows..... More
St. Petersburg: Tsarskoe Selo / Russkaia kollektsiia, 2015. Sewn cl. 71 p., 26 x 32 cm, Rus. More
Moscow: Art-Volkhonka, 2020. Sewn cl. The theme of the hedonistic life in the late eighteenth century in Western Europe especially France and in Russia gains reality from the works of costume, applied and decorative arts with which the aristocracy and gentry surrounded themselves. This catalogue of an exhibition at Tsaritsyno..... More
St. Petersburg: Art Deko / Muzei teatral'nogo i muzykal'nogo iskusstva, 2011. Sewn cl. Fokin excelled as dancer, choreographer and innovator. His imaginative choreography played a big part in the success of Diagilev's Ballets russes and shaped later generations of twentieth-century ballet. 194 p., 31 cm, approx. 200 b/w illus., Rus..... More
St. Petersburg: Art Deko / Muzei teatral'nogo i muzykal'nogo iskusstva, 2010. Sewn cl. Karsavina danced leading parts in Diagilev's Ballet russes, making Russian dance famous throughout Europe, and was prominent talent on the stage of the Mariinskii Theater in St. Petersburg. The photos published here, most from the archives of..... More
St. Petersburg: Art Deko / Muzei teatral'nogo i muzykal'nogo iskusstva, 2007, 2017. Sewn cl. Of Polish origin Kshesinskaia dancing in the early twentieth century helped create a Russian school of ballet. She was also a prominent figure in court circles and reputed to be the tsar's mistress. The photographs from..... More
St. Petersburg: Art Deko / Muzei teatral'nogo i muzykal'nogo iskusstva, 2008. Sewn cl. Vatslav Nizhinskii (Vaslaw Nijinsky) helped establish the male role in twentieth-century ballet dancing and was instrumental in the success of Diagilev's Ballets russes. Visual and written documents from the Museum of Theater and Music in St. Petersburg..... More
Moscow: Tri kvadrata, 2012. sewn cl. In addition to recording in photographs the most distinctive works of architecture of the ancient Russian city, the author has shot many church interiors in such a way that the richness of the frescoes comes forth brilliantly. Remarkable is the number of extant frescoes..... More
Simferopol: Orianda, 2019. Sewn cl. These albums — a set of three each clothbound in a slipcase — publish photographs from the Romanov family's trips to the Crimea in 1902, 1912, and 1913. Unlike many albums on the imperial family these are not ceremonial photos of diplomatic missions or official..... More