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: Galart, 2010. Sewn cl. Shukhaev's career as an artist began just before the 1917 revolution and extended into the 1960s. His acquaintance with major writers and artists such as Alexander Benois and Maksim Gorkii makes his memoirs and correspondence a valuable source on the cultural milieu of the late..... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2012. Sewn cl. After leaving Russia soon after the 1917 revolution Grigoriev lived and worked in various countries, twice teaching and painting in Chile. Some his works of these years (late 1920s and mid 1930s) are in Chilean museums, and they are published in this Russian..... More
Moscow: Muzei Vostoka, 2008. Sewn pb. Paintings centered in great cities and legendary places inspired the artists whose works from the 1920s to the early 21st century are published in this catalog of an exhibition of the Museum of the Orient (Muzei Vostoka, State Museum of the Art of the..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2020. Sewn pb. The works of Carl Fabergé's studios had no direct followers after the 1917 revolution. The consummate level of craftsmanship, the richness of materials, benefiting especially from Russia's mineral and gem deposits, and the flight of fancy that characterize Fabergé's best works demanded a clientele..... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2018. Sewn cl. The drawings and watercolors published in this Russian Museum catalogue come from a 2017 gift to the museum — an archive of over 100 graphic works by Kasimir Malevich that were preserved by Anna Leporskaya, a student of Malevich in the 1920s at..... More
Kirov: Muzei Vasnetsovykh, 2007. Saddle-stitched. This succinct catalogue of an exhibition shows the paintings and drawings by those who trained with Matiushin at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leningrad in the 1920s, where he ran a department called "Institute of Realistic Space." 29 p., 21 cm, approx. 30 color..... More
Kazan: Zaman. Sewn pb. One way in which the Soviet authorities used art as a tool of propaganda is evident in this catalogue of mainly local artists who learned the ways of modernism from their Soviet brethren. The Kazan Art School after 1917 became the Architecture and Art Studios (ArKhMas)..... More
St. Petersburg: Tsentrpoligraf / Russkaia troika, 2013. Sewn cl. Selected section headings: Jewelers who supplied the Russian Imperial court; Jewelry brands at court: Easter eggs in the Imperial Family series; the emperor's personal orders; trips to Europe and the Fabergé branch in London; Jewelry for the aristocracy, bourgeoisie; World War..... More
Moscow: Moskovskii muzei sovremennogo iskusstva / Sikur Museum. Sewn pb. This catalogue of an exhibition publishes sculptural works by the contemporary sculptor who made a name for himself in the last few decades of the Soviet period as a designer of grave monuments for artists and scientists. Among those published..... More
Moscow: Severnyi palomnik, 2020. Sewn pb. Cognate with the style that evolved in Western Europe out the Arts and Crafts movement, the style of textile works known as Art Nouveau (called modern in Russia) were produced from the 1890s, early 1900s, right up to the 1917 revolution. The 1900 Paris..... More
Moscow: Gos Istoricheskii muzei (GIM), 2019. Sewn cl. First as archbishop in Novgorod and later as Metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Church, Makarii undertook one ambitious publishing endeavor after another, culminating with his determination to compile in one multivolume work all Russian ecclesiastical literature. The literary and educational value of..... More
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Ufa: Kitap, 2019. Sewn cl. In his survey of printing and book culture in Bashkortostan the author summarizes the history of books printed in Arabic script in Russia, identifying the first document in Arabic — a manifesto of Peter the Great of 1711 — and tracing the first presses using..... 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: 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: Herm, 2020. Saddle-stitched. This brief catalog of a Hermitage exhibition unfolds the life of one Alexander II's sons. Sergei had an impact on the culture of his time. He became the head of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society when he was on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land..... More
St. Petersburg: Gatchina, 2019. Saddle-stitched. This concise catalogue of an exhibition at Gatchina on the complex relationship between the emperor and the most talented officer in the Russian army uses portraits and battle scenes to illustrate the last phase of Suvorov's career when he was in disgrace and then honored..... More
Moscow: Tsaritsyno, 2015. Saddle-stitched. The palace museum outsdide Moscow has a rich numismatic collection, the highlights of which are published here and include ancient coins, coins with Arabic inscriptions, Byzantine coins, Old Russian coins, and coins of the imperial period. 39 p., approx. 60 color illus., Rus. More
St. Petersburg: Pavlovsk, 1996. Pb. The interiors of the palace nicely photographed and printed in Finland give a good sense of the neoclassical masterpiece outside St. Petersburg designed by Italian and Russian architects. The introduction by the museum's director surveys the history of the palace as a wor of architecture..... More
Moscow: Buki Vedi, 2017. Sewn cl. 558 p., 21 cm, approx. 20 b/w illus., Rus. Series: Bumagi konstantinovichei, Doma Romanovykh, kniga II (Series: Papers of the sons of Konstantin, House of Romanovs, book III). 2ND ISBN 9785446513901 Run: 100. More
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