Sviato-Troitskaia, Aleksandro-Nevskaia Lavra (Holy Trinity Aleksandr Nevskii Lavra)
St. Petersburg: Art-Deko, 2006. sewn cl. An album on one of Russia’s principal monasteries that publishes new and archival photographs portraying its complex architectural history beginning with Trezini’s early eighteenth century design. The work combines art historical material—rarely seen shots of the interiors of the monastery’s eighteenth- and nineteenth-century buildings, the iconostasis, religious paintings of with eighteenth and nineteenth century, portraits of ecclesiastical figures—with sociological aspects of monastic life from the conflict over expropriation of church valuables to the revival of monastic life in the post-Soviet period. 280 pp., 36 cm, 78 b-&-w illus., 128 color, sewn cl. Rus. with captions in ENGLISH. Item #854
ISBN: 9785895760369
Price: $76.00