Sankt-Peterburg: Stolitsa Rossiiskoi imperii (St. Petersburg: Capital of the Russian Empire)
St. Petersburg: Liki Rossii, 1993. Sewn cl. The Central State Archive of Film, Photographic and Phonographic Documents in St. Petersburg has some 100,000 glass negatives from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, from which the compilers have chosen several hundred to present a multifaceted picture of the Russian imperial capital in its last decades. Especially vivid are the images of lost works of architecture and the portraits of artists and writers like Repin, Somov, Dobuzhinskii, Benois, Stasov, Mandel’shtam, Nabokov, and Merezhkovskii. 326 pp., 8 3/4 x 11 3/4 ins., 367 b-&-w illus., sewn cl., Rus. with list of illus. in ENGLISH. Item #3715
ISBN: 5268004069
Price: $45.00