Bronze Horseman imports books on applied and decorative arts, most of which publish research and visual documentation stemming from exhibitions and collections of Russian museums. Russian collections have many works of decorative art originating outside Russia. For example, Baron Alexander von Stieglitz spent one million rubles in the 1870s collecting works of decorative art in Western Europe for his museum-school, so that students in a mechanized age could learn high aesthetic standards from handmade crafts of the past. His collection now forms the core of the Hermitage Museum’s decorative arts department.
Architects often designed the interiors of palaces, specifying in drawings the forms of furniture, candelabra, chandeliers, and vases, which can now be seen in their original interiors in the publications of palace-museums. The palace-museums outside St. Petersburg (Peterhof, Tsarskoe Selo, Pavlovsk, Gatchina, and Oranienbaum), formerly residences of the imperial family, have collections of decorative art built over the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by emperors, empresses, and courtiers. These museums have examples of the best workmanship of Russian and Western European artists, which are published in both collection catalogues and thematic exhibition catalogues. Quite a different branch of applied arts —ecclesiastical metalwork and textiles — is published, for example, in the catalogues of the Museum of the History of Religion, also in St. Petersburg.
St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii Sankt-Peterburga. These drawings, plans by the architect who designed such masterpieces of baroque style as the Winter Palace, the Catherine Palace in Tsarskoe Selo, and Smolnyi Cathedral show how Rastrelli conceived his works, refined them, and eventually worked out definitive ensembles. From the main façade to..... More
St. Petersburg: Palatstso, 2012. Pb. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg displays the highly polished drawings of an architect who shaped the milieu of mid nineteenth century St. Petersburg through a tasteful use of eclectic elements. 47 p., 23 cm, approx. 90 color illus., Rus. More
Moscow: Sev pal, 2015. 978-5-94431- 378-2. More
St. Petersburg: Muzei Faberzhe, 2014. Pb. In addition to the jewelry, metalwork, and enamels by Fabergé and jewelers of other studios and workshop in Russia (e.g., Ovchinnikov), the Fabergé Museum in St. Petersburg has in its collections religious and secular paintings, wood carvings, and porcelain. This guidebook catalogues the collection..... More
St. Petersburg: Ars, 2013. Pb. A contemporary artist's imaginings in ceramic, metal and wood. 93 p., approx. 100 color illus., Rus. More
St. Petersburg: Gatchina, N.d. Pb. The palace ensemble at Gatchina is the least well-known of the suburban palaces outside the former imperial capital of St. Petersburg, partly because it was severely damaged during World War II and partly because it was the last of the palaces to be given museum..... More
Simferopol: N. Orianda, 2013. 63 p. More
St. Petersburg: Muzei Faberzhe, 2017. Pb. Articles cover such topics as drawings and documents as sources for studying the house of Faberge; gifts from the cabinet of his Imperial Majesty during the reigns of the last two emperors; Empress Maria Fedorovna’s gift to the Danish royal family; diplomatic gifts from..... More
St. Petersburg: Pavlovsk, 2016. Saddle-stitched. The park around Pavlovsk Palace has almost as architectural and design masterpieces on a par with those of the palace itself, which is not surprising as the same great Western European and Russian architects and designers worked on both. In this compact but informative survey... More
St. Petersburg: Muzei Faberzhe, 2014. Pb. In addition to the jewelry, metalwork, and enamels by Fabergé and jewelers of other studios and workshop in Russia (e.g., Ovchinnikov), the Fabergé Museum in St. Petersburg has in its collections religious and secular paintings, wood carvings, and porcelain. This guidebook catalogues the collection..... More
St. Petersburg: Pavlovsk, 2016. The genius of the Russian imperial family was finding artistic talent to carry their architectural projects wherever they could: architects and designers from Scotland, Italy, France and Russia designed the outbuildings of Pavalovsk Palace ensemble, and they are all gems of neoclassical and romantic architecture. Working... More
St. Petersburg: Galereia, 2007. More
St. Petersburg: Baltikum, 2013. pb. Proekt baltiia: zhurnal ob arkhitkture i dizaine Finliandii, Estonii, Litvy, Latvii i severo-zapada Rossii /. ISSN: 1994-9367. More
St. Petersburg: Baltikum, 2014. pb. ISSN: 1994-9367. More
St. Petersburg: Baltikum, 2014. pb. ISSN: 1994-9367. More
St. Petersburg: Baltikum, 2014. pb. ISSN: 1994-9367. More
St. Petersburg: Baltikum, 2013. pb. Proekt baltiia: zhurnal ob arkhitkture i dizaine Finliandii, Estonii, Litvy, Latvii i severo-zapada Rossii /. ISSN: 1994-9367. More
St. Petersburg: Baltikum, 2007. pb. ISSN: 1994-9367. More
St. Petersburg: Baltikum, 2013. pb. Proekt baltiia: zhurnal ob arkhitkture i dizaine Finliandii, Estonii, Litvy, Latvii i severo-zapada Rossii /. ISSN: 1994-9367. More
St. Petersburg: Baltikum, 2014. pb. ISSN: 1994-9367. More
St. Petersburg: Baltikum, 2015. pb. 166 p., 29 cm, approx. 400 color illus., Rus. and ENGLISH. ISSN: 1994-9367. More
St. Petersburg: Baltikum, 2015. pb. 166 p., 29 cm, approx. 400 color illus., Rus. and ENGLISH. ISSN: 1994-9367, ISSN: No 29: 2/2016–1/2017. More
Moscow: Tret'iakovskaia galereia, 2017. Sewn pb. This catalogue of a Tretyakov gallery exhibition studies works — primarily ecclesiastical metalwork — salvaged from churches and monasteries no longer extant. 86 p., 30 cm, approx. 50 color and b/w illus., Rus. More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2016. Sewn pb. The authors look at many aspects of Russian art: avant-garde sculpture of the early Soviet period; the works of Malevich and Filonov and their students; identifying sitters in Rokotov's portraits; painting as a source on medals and awards; women's folk headdresses, and story-telling... More