Moscow: Tret'iakovskaia galereia, 2015. sewn pb. Iakulov was a major figure in the artistic and theatrical world of Moscow, Paris and Yerevan during the creative explosion of the early twentieth century. He conceived of an original approach to painting (multicolored suns, the simultaneity of movement), and as a designer he..... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2012. sewn cl. This Russian Museum catalogue publishes ornamental edgings of embroidery and lace from the museum’s collection. Most were used in folk tradition to decorate the sheets of the bridal bed and became part of bride’s dowry. The works were made predominantly in various towns..... More
St. Petersburg: Tsarskoe selo, 2010. Sewn pb. 300 items of Meissen porcelain from the private collection of Kurt Krockenberger (Remshalden-Granbach, Germany) were displayed in the Catherine Palace at Tsarskoe Selo. The exhibition had a symbolic significance as its opening coincided with both the 300th anniversary of Europe’s first porcelain factory..... More
Moscow: Muzei Shchuseva, 2011. Sewn pb. The Shchusev Museum of Architecture has a unique collection of paintings and drawings done by students of the Moscow school VKhUTEMAS (Higher Artistic and Technical Workshops, Vyshie khudozhestvenno-tekhnicheskie materskie) renowned as a cradle of the avant-garde. The experimental work done during the 1920s by..... More
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2009. Sewn pb. This publication of popular prints now held at the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences offers a close look at a phenomenon of Chinese art, printmaking and propaganda of the nineteenth century: so-called export prints consisting of an image of..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2018. Sewn cl. This catalogue of a Hermitage exhibition celebrates the 200th anniversary of the Asiatic Museum (now the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences), a major world collection of manuscripts originating from the Middle East to Japan. Chapters cover three large regions..... More
St. Petersburg: Atlant, 2003. sewn cl. This catalogue of the collection of a Russian nineteenth-century minister of French origin donated to the State Historical Museum (Moscow) has excellent pieces from most European traditions—Turkey, Russia, the Caucasus, Georgia, England, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia. Color plates display..... More
Samara: Agni, 2005. Sewn cl. Published here is a great work of Moghul book art dating to the 1500s, the Baburnama or illustrated memoir of Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur, founder of the Moghul Empire. The introduction outlines the history of the manuscript collection of the Museum of the Arts of Asian..... More
Moscow: Pashkov dom, 2016. Pb. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Russian State Library publishes Russian editions and Western European editions of books by and about Karamzin, who was the first author in Russian to write fiction according to the conventions of the novel as they were developing in..... More
Moscow: Belyi gorod, 2003. sewn cl. Approximately one third of the works illustrated here were painted in the 1880s and 90s by Nikolai Iaroshenko, whose former estate houses the Kislovodsk art collection. His work allies him with the Itinerants, and his main subjects were Petersburg and his native Caucasus. 64..... More
Moscow: Belyi gorod, 2006. sewn cl. The current museum in Volgograd is the successor of earlier attempts to bring art to the public of a major city in southern Russia. A picture gallery opened in 1918 at Tsaritsyn, but soon closed owing to the civil war. Another museum at a...... More
Moscow: Belyi gorod, 2006. sewn cl. The introduction offers a good case history of the optimism and precariousness of creating local museums in the Soviet period. Blessed with many works of art from private collections nationalized after the 1917 revolution, Ramensk Museum had a good start in the 1920s; however..... More
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 1999. sewn pb. This catalogue of an exhibition publishes some of the best works of the Hermitage's splendid collection of French drawing by such artists as Jaques-Charles Bellange, Daniel Demoustier, Simon Vouet, Claude Mellan, Charles le Brun, Eustace le Sueur, Poussin, and Le Lorrain. 175 p, 28..... More
Moscow: Ist muz / Al'fa dizain, 2003. Sewn cl. he works presented in this collection catalogue come from Western European armorers — English, Czech, German, Austrian, Italian and, predominantly, French. The layout uniquely illustrates the workmanship and artistry of the pistols: illustrated are the dueling pistols in their cases and..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2009. Sewn cl. In this edition in the series Collections of the Hermitage a curator of decorative arts at the Hermitage publishes a lesser known branch of applied and decorative arts: pipes for smoking. The pipes were carved and sculpted in various European countries, including Russia. They..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2005. sewn cl. This is the first complete catalogue of the Hermitage’s collection of this form of sculpture. Ivory carving in Russia flourished after the movement of the population into the far north beyond the Onega River to the mouth of the Pechora, where ivory from mammoth..... More
St. Petersburg: Oblik, 2000. sewn cl. The Russian Naval Museum has a rich collection of blade weapons distinguished for beauty and craftsmanship. This collection catalogue publishes works from England, France, Spain, Germany, Poland, Turkey, India, Japan, and Russia thus making the collections accessible to scholars and collectors. 104 pp., 11..... More
St. Petersburg: Novyi muzei, 2015. pb. This catalogue of an exhibition of paintings by the late Russian artist opened in December 2015 at St. Petersburg's private museum specializing in late Soviet and contemporary art New Museum (Novyi muzei). It gives a broad sampling of works by an artist whose style sometimes..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2018. The authors introduce this catalogue of a large Hermitage exhibition with an outline of the way artists since ancient times have relished the use of illusion in their works from creating a sense of three dimensions on a flat surface to imitating size and texture of..... More
St. Petersburg: Pavlovsk, 2010. sewn pb. The Palace Library at Pavlovsk traces its origin to Catherine the Great’s “Travel Library” of 33 books, which she presented to her son, Grand Duke Paul. Subsequently Paul’s wife Empress Maria Fedorovna kept enlarging the collection and while making new acquisitions relied on the..... More
Moscow: Kuchkovo pole / Muz Shchuseva / Burganov-Tsentr, 2014. sewn pb. The works published in this catalogue of an exhibition at the Shchusev Museum of Russian Architecture come from churches around Russia, some of which have not survived. Especially informative are archival photographs of church interiors that show the works..... More
Moscow: Kuchkovo pole / Muzei Shchuseva, 2016. Sewn cl. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Shchusev Museum of Architecture covers many aspects of design and construction especially in the early 1930s, when the metro was conceived and competing designs winnowed — engineering of tunnels and ornamentation of interiors; styles..... More
Moscow: Muzei Shchuseva, 2018. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Shchusev Museum of Architecture in Moscow publishes design drawings by Aleksei Shchusev, a Russian architect whose career overlapped several styles of European and Russian architecture (art nouveau, Russian revival and Stalinist empire) but whose own work is distinguished for..... More
Moscow: Muz Maiakovskogo, 2013. sewn pb. The title of this catalogue of an exhibition at the Mayakovsky Museum (Moscow) in collaboration with the State Center of Contemporary Art alludes to an image in one of Mayakovsky's poems about a long-necked and observant world traveler, which provides the exhibition's main theme..... More
Moscow: Muzei Moskovskogo Kremlia, 2015. Sewn cl. Most works in the Kremlin collection are from Western Europe – Austria, England, Germany, Holland, Greece, Denmark, Italy, and France (German and French works are the most numerous), but there is a chapter on China. All works are well illustrated and scrupulously catalogued..... More