Imperatritsa Mariia Fedorovna (Empress Mariia Fedorovna)
St. Petersburg: Pavlovsk, 2000. Pb. This catalogue based on an exhibition at Pavlovsk Palace Museum uses written and visual documents from the museum's collection (and some from the Hermitage) to illustrate the life of Maria Fedorovna, first as Grand Duchess whose interests in art and architecture shaped the design of the palace and its gardens, helped determine the acquisition of works of fine and decorative art from Western Europe that now make up the museum's great collections, and later as empress and empress dowager had a beneficent influence on the imperial family and court. Places and interiors at Pavlovsk, works of sculpture and garden structures, portraits and landscapes. 64 p., 27 cm, approx. 80 b/w illus., Rus. Item #1704
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