Pravoslavnyi Peterburg i okrestnosti v fotografiiakh kontsa XIX–nachala XX veka (Orthodox Petersburg in Photographs of the Late 19th and Early 20th c.)
St. Petersburg: Liki Rossii, 2011. Sewn cl. The cornucopia of archival photographs published here documents architectural history, including many interior shots of churches, monasteries, and convents, demolished in the Soviet period. The book also offers rich images of the human side of ecclesiastical history: the church men and women, their staid portraits conveying the authority of their positions. Another aspect of church life, ceremonies and rituals, is pregnant with visual material on the milestones of life: marriages, baptisms, funerals, and holidays. The intimate ties between church and state come forth in photos of political and religious leaders presiding over all major events, ecclesiastical and civic. The illustrations are organized around various church institutions of the imperial period: the Alexander Nevski Lavra, monasteries, cathedrals, churches, and the Holy Synod. 296 pp., 8 5/8 x 11 1/2 ins., 268 b-&-w illus., sewn cl., Rus. Item #3700
ISBN: 9785874173005
Price: $62.00