Item #3237 Empress Alexandra Fiodorovna. O. Barkovets V. Znamenov, N. Vernova.
Empress Alexandra Fiodorovna
Empress Alexandra Fiodorovna
Empress Alexandra Fiodorovna
Empress Alexandra Fiodorovna
Empress Alexandra Fiodorovna
Empress Alexandra Fiodorovna

Empress Alexandra Fiodorovna

St. Petersburg: Abris / Petergof, 2008. Sewn pb. Over ten museums, archives and libraries lent visual and written documents for this exhibition at the Peterhof Palace Museum on the wife of Nicholas I. Paintings and drawings of Alexandra Fiodorovna, Nicholas, their children and court circle, the places and places they frequented illustrate the life of the German princess who who became the spouse of the Russian emperor. Her taste and personality as it shaped the court — especially her interest and taste in architecture and interior design — is the main theme. Alexandra was instrumental to the building of the so-called Cottage Palace, a masterpiece of Romantic architecture on the grounds of Peterhof Palace. Quotations from the empress's diary and from contemporary Russians and foreigners who met her enliven the authors' overview of court life in the second quarter of the nineteenth century. 190 p. , 27 cm, approx. 200 color and b/w illus., ENGLISH. Item #3237
ISBN: 9785888100899

Run: 650.

Price: $52.00

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