"Na ocharovannykh Slavianki beregakh..." Velikii kniaz' Aleksandr Nikolaevich i Pavlovsk. K 200-letiiu so dnia rozhdeniia imperatora Aleksandra II ("On the enchanted banks of the Slavianka River..." Grand Duke Aleksandr Nikolaevich and Pavlovsk. [Published on the occasion of] the 200th anniversary of the birth of Emperor Alexander II)
St. Petersburg: Pavlovsk, 2018. Sewn cl. This catalogue of an exhibition at Pavlovsk Palace Museum publishes the iconography of the young Alexander, which presents many rare and informative images: a drawing of Alexander as a young boy on horseback; the "report card" of his progress in Russian grammar; a drawing he colored of a battle scene; the quaint house in the park of Pavlovsk Palace for the heir to the throne; drawings and paintings of the Alexander's favorite haunts around the palace, and portraits by some of the best artists working in Russia in the first half of the nineteenth century such as Franz Kruger and Petr Sokolov. The large format and many illustrations should not belie the scholarly research that substantiates the authors' account of Alexander's childhood, upbringing, and youth — every page teems with footnotes. Besides the prolific visual documents written records by Alexander's contemporaries such as his tutor Vasily Zhukovskii (one of the eminent poets of the nineteenth century) fill out the picture of what shaped the man who became the tsar-liberator who ended serfdom initiating a series of major reforms cut short by his assassination. 205 p., 29 cm, approx. 200 color illus., Rus. Item #4111
ISBN: 9785918160411
Price: $88.00