Proekty oformleniia koronatsionykh torzhestv v Rossii XIX veka (Designs for coronation ceremonies in 19th-c. Russia)
Moscow: Buksmart / Ross akademiia khud, 2013. sewn cl. This is an original work studying what is at once the most grandiose and most ephemeral of architectural creations: the stage and pavilion erected to crown a tsar. The well chosen illustrations not only reproduece rare drawings and plans of structures used at the crowning, but also costumes of those officiating and paintings recording the event. Chapter titles: Church coronation in the Moscow Kremlin: Making the monarch sacrred; State coronation ceremony: metaphoric affirmation of the the monarch; Design of fireworks and celebrations in the old capital: aesthetic equivalent of national coronation; Organization of the people's celebration, popular prints of the tsar's coronation. 438 p., approx. 400 color and b/w illus., Rus. Item #796
ISBN: 9785906190079
Price: $166.00