Ot Moskvy do samykh do okrain … / From Moscow to Russia’s Very Edge
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2011. sewn cl. Russian artists in the eighteenth and nineteenth century began to record in paint and pencil the vast tracts of the Russian Empire. some works resulted from commissions from the emperor, others from scientific expeditions, and still others from the artists’ own fascination with the exotic peoples and places of the empire. For this exhibition the Russian Museum compiled many such paintings, drawings, and works of sculpture, which have value as works of art and as visual documents of the colorful variety of Russia’s peoples and lands. 199 pp.,32 cm, approx. 200 color illus., Rus. or ENGLISH, Item #452
ISBN: 9783863840532
Price: $116.00