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.
New Rochelle, New York: Aristide D. Caratzas, 1990. Sewn cl. English edition of Das Bild und sein Publikum im Mittelalter:‘Form und Funktion früher Bildtafeln des Passion revised by the author with a new chapter on the importation of icons to the West. What was the function or task of an image..... More
St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii Sankt-Peterburga, 2022. Sewn pb. This catalogue of the art collections of the Kirov Museum in St. Petersburg shows the extent to which art and politics were intertwined in the Soviet period. Kirov was a revolutionary who took part in the 1905 uprising, after which he was..... More
St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii religii, 2023. Sewn cl. Advertising and theatrical posters were widespread in late imperial Russia. The 1917 revolution and the Soviet government’s efforts to inculcate a new ideology meant a boom in political posters. One plank of the Soviet government aimed to suppress religion and teach Marxism-Leninism-Stalinism..... More
St. Petersburg: Pavlovsk, 2023. sewn pb. The author summarizes the formation of the collection and catalogues 117 works noting origin and provenance, method of manufacture, technique, materials, dating, condition, and artistic traits. Many of the works are published here for the first time. The scholarly apparatus includes bibliography, index, list..... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2020. Sewn cl. Talented artists who began working in the imperial period such as Boris Kustodiev and Ivan Bilibin together with artists of the avant-garde and early Soviet years like Aleksei Pakhomov, Dmitrii Bulanov, Alexander Deineka, Aleksei Radakov, Nikolai Kupreianov, Sergei Chekhonin, and Nikolai Remizov turned..... More
Kazan: Zaman, 2023. Sewn pb. Scholars and curators introduce each section by sketching the history of the collection and pointing out its most significant works. They provide detailed entries on each work, and high quality illustrations capture the detail and beauty of the works. Section headings: Book art; Calendars and shamail; Islamic..... More
Moscow: Tret'iakovskaia galereia, 2020. Sewn pb. The artist who is the subject of this exhibition catalogue had an unusual life. Her father was a banker in St. Petersburg, and she and her sisters were tutored at home and passed the gymnasium exams. After art school in the revolutionary years she..... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2004. Sewn cl. Publishing a sampling of Ermolaev’s paintings, watercolors, drawings and lithographs of the 1920s to the 1970s, the Russian Museum provides the material to a representative artist of the mid-twentieth century. His subjexts such as agricultural workers and brightly colored rural houses smack of..... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2005. Sewn cl. Trained in the tsarist period as a painter of battle scenes, Frents during the revolutionary years studied at the Institute of Decorative Art (Dekorativnyi institut) to learn the kind of painting in demand in the Soviet period such as monumental street art on..... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2006. Sewn cl. Ionin studied with Petrov-Vodkin at the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, assimilating Petrov-Vodkin’s sense of color and strong simple imagery. In Ionin’s works of the 1920s landscapes and portraits predominate, in a style that has been called Leningrad Realism. Together with..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2023. Sewn pb. This Hermitage exhibition catalogue teems with visual and written documents on the domestic and private life of the imperial family in the late 1890s and early 1900s (from Aleksei's birth until his 13th birthday). The curators use many forms of material culture together with..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2017. Pb. P: H, This book publishes twelve articles originating in Hermitage symposia on heraldry. The topics on which Swedish, Azerbaidzhan and Russian scholars present their research include Swedish military banners taken by Peter the Great’s army during the Great Northern War, military colors designed for units..... More
Moscow: Muzei russkoi ikony, 2019. Sewn pb. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Museum of Russian Icons (Chastnyi muzei russkoi ikony) in Moscow continues the museum's series on masterpieces of icon painting from museums around Russia. The icon from the Pskov school that is the focus of the exhibition went..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2022. Sewn cl. Secular and ecclesiastical embroidery from Italy, France, Flanders, Spain, and Germany scrupulously described and beautifully illustrated in this Hermitage monograph. 212 p., 28 cm, approx. 200 color illus., Rus. More
Moscow: Muzei izobrazitel'nykh iskusstv im. A.S. Pushkina, 2021. Sewn pb. Chapter headings: the golden age of Sienese painting in the works of Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena; Russian collectors and the formation of museum collections of early Renaissance art; works in the political and economic life of Siena. 199 p., approx..... More