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.
Chisinau: Museului National de Istorie a Moldovei, 2019. Sewn cl. This publication presents the results of excavations of 56 kurgans on the territory of the Republic of Moldova. The kurgans contained over 350 graves belonged to the wide range of archaeological cultures, from the late Eneolithic to the late Middle Ages. Appendix provides..... More
Chisinau: Museului National de Istorie a Moldovei, 2019. Sewn cl. This catalogue is the first complete publication of anthropomorphic figurines of the Cucuteni culture kept in the National Museum of the History of Moldova. Most of the figurines came from excavations of settlements dated to the second half of the 5th millennium BC..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2020. Sewn pb. This Hermitage publishes in this exhibition catalogue research on an ancient stone monument which constitutes a gigantice slab of inscriptions on trade and which was brought to the Hermitage in 1901. Also published are works of stone funeral sculpture and ceramics tesserae, which originated..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2020. sewn cl. This catalogue of an exhibition at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg publishes the artifacts and works of art dating to the first millennium b.c. from four great museums: the Hermitage, the State Historical Museum in Moscow, the A.S. Pushkin Museum of Fine..... 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
Moscow: Gos Istoricheskii muzei (GIM), 2020. Sewn cl. These works from the department of treasures at the State Historical Museum (Moscow) have interest as fine examples of Russian, Western European and Near Eastern metalwork (e.g., Iran, Azerbaizhan); as relics of periods when beautiful objects designed with gold were the most..... More
S.I. Verkhov, 2019. Sewn cl. The collection of a provincial museum has not the extent or depth of a the major museums in St. Petersburg or Moscow, but the Rybinskii Museum-Preserve has representative examples of all significant styles from the neoclassical 1770s to the early Soviet propaganda imagery and all..... More
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2004. Sewn cl. The Hermitage has a superb collection of Western European embroidery (approximately 1500 articles), most of which, owing to their sensitivity to light and air, are in closed storage. Publishing 307 of its finest works in this catalogue, the museum displays altar hangings and vestments..... More