Sewn cl. Collecting in the Soviet period took connections and charm, as substantial resources and a normal art market did not exist. Levitin, an eminent physician, managed to build a collection of works containing leading artists of the twentieth century, many of whom worked in Levitin's native Leningrad such as..... More

St. Petersburg: Herm, 2014. Sewn pb. These are more than annual volumes chronicling the scholarship and collecting of a great museum - they are handsomely produced art books with sewn bindings and abundant high-quality illustrations. The main sections touch on varied themes in world art and collecting history: studies of..... More

St. Petersburg: Rosfoto, 2012. pb. As part of a national program to study and preserve collections of photographs in Russian archives, museums, and libraries, Rosfoto, the state exhibition center for photography in St. Petersburg, organized a conference in 2012 entitled “Photography in Museums.” Over twenty authors presented their research sizing..... More

St. Petersburg: Rosfoto, 2013. pb. As part of a national program to study and preserve collections of photographs in archives, museums, and libraries around Russia, the State Museum and Exhibition Center Rosfoto, specializing in the history of photography, initiated a conference in 2013 continuing the theme of its 2012 conference..... More

St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2016. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Yusupov Museum-Palace in St. Petersburg publishes French paintings and works of sculpture now at the Hermitage that the Yusupov family collected in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Initiated by Nikolai Borisovich Yusupov, the collection became the richest private collection..... More

Moscow: Pashkov dom, 2009. Sewn cl. 247 p., approx. 60 color and b/w illus., Rus. with table of contents and summary in ENGLISH. More

St. Petersburg: Pavlovsk, 2003. Pb. Pavlovsk set the tone during a great era in Russian architecture and collecting. Continuing the work of the originators of the collections and buildings—Grand Duke Paul and Grand Duchess Maria Fedorovna—the curators are continually procuring eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Western European and Russian works of..... More

St. Petersburg: Arka, 2009. Sewn cl. Collections of the Russian emperor and the imperial family formed the core of today's great libraries, art and book collections in St. Petersburg. The source of the works described and illustrated is the Russian Ethnography Museum (originally part of the Alexander III Russian Museum). Its..... More

St. Petersburg: Rosfoto, 2017. pb. These articles are based on presentation at a St. Petersburg conference held this May. They publish photographs from far-flung collections around Russia. Most valuable is the survey of collections that few are aware of. Thanks to the English summaries, scholars and researchers of the history..... More

St. Petersburg: Rosfoto, 2016. pb. These articles are based on presentation at a St. Petersburg conference held this May. They publish photographs from far-flung collections around Russia. Most valuable is the survey of collections that few are aware of. Thanks to the English summaries, scholars and researchers of the history..... More

St. Petersburg: Novyi muzei, 2010. sewn pb. The post-Soviet period has seen a new phenomenon in Russian art: founding museums based on private collections. For seventy years in the communist regime building individual wealth was taboo, and art collecting impracticable. In the 1990s and 2000s getting resources sufficient to collect..... More

St. Petersburg: Herm, 2000. Pb. This book publishes new research and reprints articles by the scholars of Coptic art who were instrumental in building the Hermitage’s major collection. Biographical sketches of those who have worked with the collection since the nineteenth century, an annotated bibliography of publications on Coptic art..... More

Moscow: Muzei izobrazitel'nykh iskusstv im. A. S. Pushkina, 2009 (2nd, enlarged and corrected edition). Sewn cl. Besides full descriptive data for each work, volume 2 also publishes written documents on the building of the collection, such as correspondence between S. N. Kitaev, the principal collector, and I. V. Tsvetaev, founder..... More