Tula: Tul’skii gosudarstvennyi muzei oruzhie, 2017. Pb. As Russia's major center of metalwork and arms production for centuries, Tula was naturally a place where arms collections could be former, and private collections were the basis of the museum's excellent range of pieces from the Near East to the Far East..... More
St. Petersburg: Oranienbaum, 2003. sewn pb. Inspired by the Japanese Pavilion of Grand Duke Peter Fedorovich (later Peter III) and Grand Duchess Catherine Alekseevna (later Catherine the Great) at Oranienbaum Palace, this exhibition catalogue describes 124 objects from nine St. Petersburg museums, including arms and armor, prints and paintings, vases... More
Moscow: State Museum-Preserve "Tsaritsyno" 2008. sewn pb. 203 p., 27 cm., approx. 150 color and b/w illus., Rus. More
St. Petersburg: Atlant, 2003. sewn cl. The extraordinary breadth of the arms collection of the Museum of Artillery, Engineering and Communication Troops (St. Petersburg) enables the author to survey the history of each kind of blade weapon as it developed in various countries of Europe. Although the majority of the... More
Moscow: Gos Istoricheskii muzei (GIM) / Kuchkovo pole, 2012. sewn cl. Fifteen museums contributed art works and artifacts to the exhibition at the State Historical Museum (Moscow) of which this is the catalogue. Chapter titles: Slavs of Eastern Europe in the Political and Cultural World of Europe in the Second... More
Moscow: Muzei Moskovskogo Kremlia, 2006. Sewn cl. The Kremlin Museums' collection of English firearms derives from the imperial family's collecting over several centuries and the royal armory at the Kremlin. It is especially strong for the early seventeenth century, when diplomatic contacts were frequent, and also has rare works from... More
Moscow: Muzei Moskovskogo Kremlia, 2015. Sewn cl. The connection between arms and other forms of applied and decorative arts is clear on every page of this catalogue of the Moscow Kremlin Museums collection: the fine metalwork lifts these arms above the level of mere tools or weapons. The author traces... More
Moscow: Muzei Moskovskogo Kremlia, 2012. Sewn cl. The seventeenth century saw much trade and diplomacy between Russians and Dutch, and many precious works of Dutch gunsmiths came to the royal armory as gifts from ambassadors and merchants. Patterns and scenes inlaid into the wood (e.g., floweres, leaves, vines, birds, animals... More
St. Petersburg: Gatchina / Lait, 2014. sewn cl. Gatchina Palace was built in the mid eighteenth century on land outside St. Petersburg given by Catherine the Great to the favorite who helped her accede to the throne, Grigorii Orlov. Orlov saw the palace as a grand hunting lodge in the... More
St. Petersburg: Gatchina / Lait, 2017. sewn cl. This final volume of the collection catalogues of the Gatchina Palace-Museum's arms collection publishes firearms from Germany (except Saxony and Thuringia, published in vol. III) and works added to the collection in 2014–16. The introduction outlines the formation of the collection in... More
St. Petersburg: Atlant, 2004. sewn cl. Having studied and preserved for fifty years a collection strong in arms of the Caucasus (State Historical Museum, Moscow), the author has vast expertise on a region where arms were for centuries both a practical necessity and a high art. He approaches the prolific... More
Makhachkala: Epokha, 2014 (2nd enlarged edition). Sewn cl. The author covers different kinds of arms produced in Dagestan, their technology and ornament; identifies craftsmen, where and when they worked; provides background on the organizing and trading of arms, the centers of production; summarizes information on military history relevant to arms... More
St. Petersburg: Galereia, 2008. saddle-stitched. Drawings, paintings, and works of decorative art from the collections of the museum at Gatchina illustrate a colorful and not very well known chapter of Russian eighteenth-century history: the approximately two and half thousand troops alloted by Catherine the Great to her son Paul and... More
St. Petersburg: Oblik, 2000. sewn cl. Choice edged weapons from England, France, Spain, Germany, Poland, Turkey, India, Japan, and Russia form an important collection, which this catalogue brings into scholarly circulation. 104 pp., 11 x 10 ins., 118 color illus., Rus. with captions, list of illus. and summary in ENGLISH. More
Tula: 2017. Sewn pb. This collection catalogue of the Tula State Museum of Arms publishes works that few have access to. Famed for its metalwork, including arms and armor, since the early eighteenth century Tula naturally attracted people interested in the history of arms and collecting arms, and local private... 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
St. Petersburg: 2013. Sewn cl. These blade weapons used by or awarded to those who served in the Russian navy are significant for the art history of arms and their provenance, for example, pieces arms wielded by Peter the Great, Emperor Paul, grand princes of the Romanov family. Most of... More
St. Petersburg: Branko, 2015. Sewn cl. 229 p., 30 cm, approx. 300 illus., Rus. 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: Slavia, 2017. Sewn cl. The Hermitage arms collection as represented in this catalogue of a traveling exhibition is strong in works designed in the Middle East, Caucasus, and the Far East. The pieces are both weapons and works of arts. 94 p., approx. 80 color illus., Rus., Kazakh, ENGLISH. More
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2014. sewn cl. The Hermitage has a rich collection of Western European, Russian, and Asian arms. A strong impulse for forming an imperial arms collection originated with Grand Duke Nikolai Pavlovich (later Emperor Nikolai I). Sevety-two works in the exhibition represent the main stages in the development... More
Tula: Tul’skii gosudarstvennyi muzei oruzhie, 2017. Pb. The works published here illustrate various kinds of hunting arms manufactured primarily in Tula, the traditional center of metalworking and arms making in Russia. Most pieces date to the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries. The author indicates kinds of construction..... More
Tula: Tul'skii muzei oruzhiia, 2017. Sewn pb. Each work has a detailed catalogue entry: place and date of production, materials, dimensions, and notes on technical and aesthetic aspects, inscriptions and marks. Most to the works date to relatively recent periods—late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. 186 p., 22 x 27 cm... More
Kazan: Zaman, 2003. sewn cl. Organized by geographic origin — Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Russia, Near East, and Asia — this catalogue of a rather remote collection studies works of arms as historical artifacts and artistic creations. The catalogue thanks to the full-page color plates showing the works as a whole..... More
Moscow: Muz Vostoka, 2015. sewn pb. In a museum specializing in Asian art it is remarkable to find published in this catalogue almost 200 works from Eastern Sudan, Ethiopia, and western and eastern equatorial Africa. They date from the nineteenth century to the second half of the twentieth. 143 p.... More