Imperatritsa Mariia Fedorovna. Zhizn' i sud'ba
St. Petersburg: Petronii, 2006. More
Collection Catalogues
Bronze Horseman is attuned to the publishing projects of museums in Russia and stocks books essential for reference libraries and scholars. The Hermitage, Pavlovsk Palace-Museum, the Museum of the History of Religion, and the Tretyakov Gallery are a few of the museums in Russia currently publishing comprehensive catalogues of their collections. Based on years of research and published infrequently, collection catalogues are an event in a museum’s history and a boon to the study of its collections. They illustrate the works, update attributions, correct dates, offer new information on artists and sitters, and fix current preservation status.
Sverdlovskii oblastnoi kraevedcheskii muzei. Kollektsii (Sverdlovsk Regional Museum: Collections)
Ekaterinburg: Kvadrat, 2016. Sewn cl. This catalogue of highlights of a provincial museum publishes rare books, photography, coins and medals, arms and armor, glass and ceramics, bronze sculpture, prints and icons. Many of the works come from private collections of the Ural Mountain region nationalized after the 1917 revolution. 111..... More
Zhivopis'. Russkaia zhivopis' XVIII - nachala XX veka; otechestvennaia zhivopis' XX veka; zhivopis' Karelii XX veka; Zapadnoevropeiskaia zhivopis' XVI-XX vekov. Katalog (Painting. Russian painting of the 18h to the early 20th c; Soviet painting of the 20th c.; painting in Karelia in the 20th c; Western European painting of the 16th to the 20th c. Catalogue)
Petrozavodsk: Verso, 2005. Sewn cl. This catalogue is a good example of the way the expropriated private collections were distributed among provincial museums after the 1917 revolution. It publishes a representative selection of eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth-century Russian painting. A special section publishes painters who were born or worked in..... More
Zhivopis’: Pervaia polovina XX veka, Katalog, Tom 9, g-i (Painting: First Half of the 19th century, Catalogue [of the State Russian Museum], Volume 9, g-i)
St. Petersburg: Rus Muz, 2000. sewn cl. The second of five planned volumes on the period 1900–1950 that comprises the dramatic stages that Russian art history passed through from the styles and movements the late imperial period to the creative explosion and then suppression of avant-garde painting, and finally the..... More
Mednye i bronzovye (latunnye) izdeliia Irana vtoroi poloviny XIV – serediny XVIII veka: katalog kollektsii (Iranian Copper and Bronze (Brass) Artefacts from the Second Half of the 14th to the Mid-18th Century: Catalogue of the [Hermitage] Collection)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2014. sewn cl. This edition of the complete catalogue of the Hermitage publishes exquisite examples of Iranian metalwork from the world’s largest collection. Among the themes that the author develops in the introduction are the use of inscriptions (verses, prayers) to ascertain origin; names of owners and..... More
Maiakovskii: Kollektsiia fotografii (1896 – 1930) (Mayakovsky: collection of photographs [1896–1930])
Moscow: Muz Maiakovskogo, 2011. sewn pb. The content of these photographs from the Mayakovsky Museum in Moscow make them valuable documents chronicling Mayakovsky's life — standing in profile against the backdrop of the East River and Brooklyn Bridge, performing his poems — and social circle, which comprised major figures of..... More
Russkii pravoslavnyi krest v sobranii Rossiiskoi etnograficheskogo muzeia (Russian Orthodox Crosses in the Collection of the Russian Ethnography Museum)
St. Petersburg: Rossiiskii etnograficheskii muzei, 2007. sewn pb., The authors focus on the art-historical aspects of the cross in Russia, tracing its development from Byzantine forms to distinctive Russian styles, such as four-, six, and eight-sided variants, a generalized almost abstract image of Christ at variance with realistic depiction of..... More
Katalog kollektsii stekla iz sobraniia Muzeia-Usad'by Arkhangel'skoe (Catalogue of the glass collection in the Arkhangel'skoe Museum-Estate)
Arkhangel'skoe: Muzei-usad'ba Arkhangel'skoe, 2021. Sewn pb. This is the first scholarly catalogue of the collection of glass at Arkhangel'skoe Estate-Museum, which as the home of Nikolai Borisovich Yusupov in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries became the center of his collecting activity, one result of which was a major..... More
Korinfskie vazy i ikh antichnye imitatsii. Katalog kollektsii (Corinthian vases and their antique imitations: Catalogue of the [Hermitage] Collection).
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2015. Sewn cl. The Hermitage collection of vases originating in Corinth, most painted with animal and human figures at a high level of virtuosity, numbers over 700 and dates to the seventh and sixth centuries B.C., usually regarded as the heyday of ceramic art in Corinth. The..... More
Omskii oblastnoi muzei izobrazitel’nykh iskusstv imeni M. A. Vrubelia (The M. A. Vrubel’ Omsk Regional Museum of Fine Arts)
Moscow: Belyi gorod, 2004. sewn cl. Works by core painters of nineteenth-century realism (I. Repin, K. Makovskii, G. Miasoedov, V. Vereshchagin, I. Polenov, I. Levitan), late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century artists on the cusp of changing styles (V. Vasnetsov, M. Nesterov, N. Roerich, L. Bakst, V. Iakovlev, a tryptych by..... More
Sovershentsvo v detaliakh: iskusstvo Iaponii epokhi Meidzi 1868–1910. Laki, chastnaia kollektsiia, katalog vystavki, tom 1 / Perfection in Details: the Art of Japan in the Meiji Period 1868–1910. Lacquer, vol. 1
St. Petersburg: Herm / Chistyi list, 2016. Sewn pb. This Hermitage catalogue in four volumes makes a rich private collection of Japanese art available for study. Nicely designed with many details and full data for each entry, the catalogue will be a good source on Japanese decorative arts. 129 p...... More
Rozhdestvenskaia otkrytka v sobranii Gosudarstvennogo muzeiia istorii Sankt-Peterburga (Christmas postcards from the collection of the Museum of the History of St. Petersburg)
St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii Sankt-Peterburga, 2016. sewn cl. The origin of postcards sent at Christmas, their various motifs, the characteristics of cards from different countries are among the aspects of the genre that the authors touch in the introduction to this catalogue of approximately 300 cards dating from the 1890s..... More
Vladimir Shagin: zhivopis', grafika (Vladimir Shagin: painting, graphic art)
St. Petersburg: KGallery, 2016. Pb. In this catalogue of a gallery exhibition paintings and drawings from private collections and the Museum of Nonconformist Art (St. Petersburg) give a good overview of a buoyant and original talent of the Leningrad nonconformists who was active from the 1950s to the 80s. Shagin's..... More
Gosudarstvennyi tsentral’nyi muzei muzykal’noi kul’tury imeni M. I. Glinki, Moskva (The M. I. Glinka State Central Museum of Musical Culture, Moscow)
Moscow: Belyi gorod, 2007. sewn cl. The Glinka museum is the heir of the short-lived Museum of Artistic Culture, which housed the excellent collection of Russian art built by N. S. Golovanov, who worked intermittently at the Bolshoi Theater between 1915 and 1953, eventually becoming its artistic director. His collection..... More
Nikolai Iaroshenko: zhivopis' i grafika. Memorial’nyi muzei-usad’ba khudozhnika N. A. Iaroshenko, g. Kislovodsk (Nikolai Iaroshenko: Painting and Drawing. Memorial Museum-Estate of the Artist N. A. Iaroshenko in Kislovodsk)
Piatigorsk: Sneg, 2003. Pb. In his landscape paintings Iaroshenko had a talent for capturing the sublime in nature — the magnificent mountain peaks and vast expanses of the Caucasus, bays and harbor and brilliant skies, In his portraits he was intimate with his subjects whether a shy peasant boy or..... More
Persidskaia zhivopis’ i risunok XV–XIX vekov v sobranii Ermitazha (Persian Painting and Drawing of the 15th to the 19th c. in the Hermitage)
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 1996. Sewn pb. This catalogue of an extensive Hermitage exhibition displays works from successive periods of Persian painting and drawing, in various media, and employing different techniques. The format is conducive to careful study of each work with many full-page details. Some works are published for the..... More
Persidskie rukopisi, zhivopis’ i risunok XV – nachala XX veka. Katalog kollektsii (Persian Manuscripts, Paintings and Drawings of the 15th to the Early 20th c.: Catalogue of the [Hermitage] Collection)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2010. sewn cl. Three chapters introduce the catalogue: a brief history of Persian painting, in which changes in style and content are followed; Russia and Iran: diplomacy and art from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, which sketches the circumstances that led to significant collections being built..... More
The Daguerreotype in Russia, vol. 7 / Dagerotip v Rossii, tom 7
St. Petersburg: Rosfoto, 2020. sewn cl. This volume of Rosfoto’s (Russian Museum and Exhibition Center of Photography) series on daguerreotypes in collections throughout Russia publishes works from seven museums, archives, and libraries from Novgorod and St. Petersburg to Nizhnii Tagil. Authors and curators provide detailed entries on each daguerreotype, describing..... More
The Daguerreotype in Russia, vol. 6, The Collection of the State Hermitage Museum / Dagerotip v Rossii, tom 6, Sobranie Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha
St. Petersburg: Rosfoto, 2017. sewn cl. The Russian State Museum and Exhibition Center for Photography Rosfoto together with other Russian museums, libraries and archives has undertaken a catalogue of early photographs in the daguerreotype technique held at Russian institutions. The achievement is both scholarly and organizational — gaining access to..... More
The Daguerreotype in Russia, vol. 5, The Collection of the Russian State Library / Dagerotip v Rossii, tom 5, Sobranie Rossiiskoi gosudarstvennoi biblioteki
St. Petersburg: Rosfoto, 2017. sewn cl. The Russian State Museum and Exhibition Center for Photography Rosfoto together with other Russian museums, libraries and archives has undertaken a catalogue of early photographs in the daguerreotype technique held at Russian institutions. Volume 5 publishes daguerrotypes, many for the first time, held by..... More
Aleksandr Vedernikov. Modernizm bez manifesta: sobranie Romana Babicheva, Tom 4 (Aleksandr Vedernikov. Modernism without a manifesto: Roman Babichev's collection, vol. 4)
Moscow: Moskovskii muzei sovremennogo iskusstva, 2017. Sewn cl. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art publishes an artist who after working with Pavel Filonov and the Collective of Analytical Artists became part of the Circle of Artists association in the 1920s and 30s distinguishing himself..... More
Maiakovskii glazami sovremennikov (Mayakovsky in the eyes of his contemporaries)
Moscow: Muzei Maiakovskogo, 2018. Sewn cl. Published here from collections of the Mayakovsky Museum and other museums are many visual documents on Mayakovsky and revolutionary artists and writers of his circle: contemporary drawings, caricatures, paintings, and photographs. Excerpts from writings by those who knew the avant-garde poet and artist add..... More
Gosudarstvennyi muzei izobrazintel’nykh iskusstv imeni A. S. Pushkina: Iaponskaia graviura, tom 2, seredina – konets XIX veka (A. S. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts: Japanese Prints, vol. 2, Middle–Late 19th c.)
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
Glazami romantika. Gollandskaia i bel’giiskaia zhivopis’ XIX veka iz sobraniia Rademakersa. Katalog vystavki (A Romantic View. Dutch and Belgian Paintings of the 19th Century from the Rademakers Collection. Catalog of the exhibition in the State Hermitage Museum
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2010. Sewn pb. The Rademakers Collection spans the first seven decades of the nineteenth century, with examples of nearly every genre and trend in the Romanticism of the Low Countries. There are summer and winter landscapes, seascapes and cityscapes, flower pieces and still lifes, nocturnes, portraits and..... More
Russkie narodnye kartinki sobral i opisal D. Rovinskii (Russian Folk Paintings Compiled and Annotated by D. Rovinskii)
St. Petersburg: Tropa Troiaova, 2002 (1st abridged ed. 1900). sewn cl. In the second half of the nineteenth century Rovinskii did for folk painting what A. N. Afanas’ev did for fairy tales and V. I. Dahl’ for proverbs. In the two volumes published here in one book he compiles and..... More