Tsarskoe Selo: “liubimets dvukh stoletii” (Tsarskoe Selo: the Favorite of Two Centuries); :
St. Petersburg: Mednyi vsadnik, 2004. sewn pb. Chapters of this exhibition catalogue cover several themes on the history of the palace ensemble at Tsarskoe Selo, its architecture, interior design, and art collections: the palace as residence and the lives of those who resided there; initial layout of of the Catherine park in 1717; Charles Cameron’s neoclassical interiors; Vasilii Stasov’s interiors in empire style; Alexander Park and its architectural works (the Chinese theater, arsenal, white tower, and pavilion); the baroque Catherine Palace in the period of historicism; chinoiserie in the collections of Tsarskoe Selo; the consequences on the palaces of twentieth-century cataclysms, such as the 1917 revolution and Nazi occupation of the territory outside Leningrad. Over 500 works of fine and applied art from the palace’s collections are catalogued, and many of them are illustrated. 152 pp., 9 x 11 ins., 38 b-&-w illus.,123 color, Rus. Item #2079
ISBN: 5942160104
Price: $73.00