Russkaia narodnaia odezhda: ponevy i iubki (Russian folk clothing: shifts and skirts)
Moscow: Boslen, 2018. Sewn cl. 253 p., approx. 300 color illus., Rus. More
Costume
Stranitsy istoriii otechestvennogo iskusstva, vypusk XXVII. Sbornik statei po materialam nauchnoi konferentsii (Russkii muzei, Sankt-Peterburg, 2015) (Pages in the History of Russian Art. Collection of articles stemming from a scholarly conference [Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, 2015])
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
Anna Zvereva: uzory zemli Olonkho (Anna Zvereva: patterns of the land of Olonkho)
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2015. Sewn cl. The designs of contemporary textiles and clothing in the Russian Far East stem from the patterns used in traditional costume of the region. This catalogue of works by a contemporary designer from Yakutia illustrates the richness of the patterns, the unusual and beautiful compositions..... More
XVIII vek — vek voinskoi slavy Rossii (The eighteenth century — the century of Russia's military glory)
Moscow: Muzei-zapovednik Tsaritsyno, 2008. sewn pb. 203 p., 27 cm., approx. 150 color and b/w illus., Rus. More
Prakticheskii seminar Narodnaia odezhda v ramkakh konferentsii "Morfologiia obriada" (A practical seminar on Folk costume in the context of the conference "the morphology of custom)
Ivanovo: Roshcha Akademii, 2009. Pb. The authors investigate the meaning of traditional elements of folk costume. The significance of women's clothing, the meaning of flowers in a wedding crown, belts on dresses, the significance of a bride's headwear, and regional variations in folk costume are among the themes of the..... More
Moda–narodu: ot konstruktivizma k dizainu. Mezhdunarodnaia vystavka (Fashion to the people: from constructivism to design. International exhibition)
Moscow: Rabochii i kolkhoznitsa, 2017 (?). Sewn pb. This catalogue about revolutionary clothing and styles suiting the new Soviet man and Soviet woman combines historical material such as drawings for costume and textile design by great avant-garde artists (e.g., Varvara Stepanova, Alexandra Exter, Liubov Popova, El Lisitskii, Liudmila Maiakovskaia, and..... More
Fedor Fedorovskii: Legenda Bol'shogo teatra (Fedor Fedorovskii: legend of the Bolshoi Theater)
Moscow: Tret'iakovskaia galereia / Skanrus, 2014. Sewn cl. This is the catalogue of the first major exhibition devoted to the work of the theater artist whose creative costume and set designs not only gave a distinctive look to the Bolshoi Theater, but had an influence on other arts of the..... More
Veer kak iskusstvo: Veera iz sobraniia Moskovskogo gosudarstvennogo ob’edinennogo muzeia-zapovednika Kolomenskoe-Izmailovo-Lefortovo-Liublino i muzeia "Iskusstvo veera", g. Sankt-Peterburga (Fans as art: fans from the collection of Moscow Sate United Museum-Preserves Kolomenskoe-Izmailovo-Lefortovo-Liublino and the Fan Museum, St. Petersburg)
Moscow: Moskovskii ob''edinennyi muzei, 2014. pb. These works from five museums show how an applied and decorative art can verge on the fine arts. Artists using various techniques (painting, engraving, embroidery, carving) to shape and illustrate sensuous materials like silk, lace, bone, and spangles. Works come from Western Europe and..... More
Veera vzmakh: veera XIX–XX vekov iz kollektsii Rossiiskogo etnograficheskogo muzeia / A Wave of the Fan: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Fans from the Russian Museum of Ethnography
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2010. Saddle-stitched. This concise catalogue of artistic and exotic fans from a relatively obscure collection publishes works from Korea, Japan, China, India, the Caucasus (Circassians, Abkhazians), Buryatia, and Western Europe. Well illustrated with several images of each work. 16 p., 18 x 19 cm, approx. 20 color..... More
Traditsionnaia kul’tura Tatar XIX – XX vekov (Traditional Culture of the Tatars in the 19th and 20th Centuries)
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2012. sewn pb. These works from the Russian Museum of Ethnography’s (St. Petersburg) vast collections were exhibited at the Kazan Kremlin in 2012. They display a spectrum of artistic culture of the Tartars: costume, jewelry, embroidery, weaving, ceramics, metalwork, leather mosaic, and dolls. Especially dazzling are the..... More
Tatdeko: ot starinnykh tekhnologii k sovremennomu dizainu = Tatdeco : from ancient technologies to modern design = Tatdeko: boryngy tekhnologiialardan - zamancha dizainga
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2012. Sewn cl. Inspired by traditional Tatar and Islamic aesthetics, the foundation "Turan Art" was started outside Kazan in southern Russia to apply Tatar craftsmanship to the design of contemporary costume and accessories such as handbags and boots. Artists use gold and tambour embroidery and leather mosaic..... More
Vyshitye podzory, konets XVIII – nachalo XIX veka (Embroidered Trimmings. The End of 18th –Beginning of 19th Century)
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
Dekorativno-prikladnoe iskusstvo Sankt-Peterburga za 300 let: Illiustrirovannaia entsiklopediia, tom 2 (An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Three Hundred Years of Decorative and Applied Arts of St. Petersburg, vol. 2)
St. Petersburg: ARS, 2006. sewn cl. Volume 2 of this encyclopedia of applied arts based on the Hermitage collections covers Russian furniture, bronzes, costume, and textiles. Since many of the works are not on permanent exhibition, they become accessible only in publication. Entries on each piece are exhaustive and proceed..... More
Veera v Rossii. XVIII – nachalo XX veka v sobranii Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha (Hand fans in Russia, 18th to the early 20th century in the State Hermitage Museum collection)
St. Petersburg / Moscow: Hermitage / Kuchkovo pole, 2019. Sewn cl. The large format — many illustrations filling half pages, full pages, or two-page spreads — enable readers to see the craftsmanship of 272 fans and the high art of their decoration. They approach jewelry when metalwork or gems adorn..... More
Russkii stil’: stil’ zhizni, stil’ iskusstva (Russian Style in Life and Art)
St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii Sankt-Peterburga, 2012. sewn pb. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Museum of the History of St. Petersburg uses works of applied art, examples of costume and textiles, drawings, paintings, and photographs to show the amalgam of forms and tastes that took shape from the 1830s..... More
Narodnoe iskusstvo nizhegorodskogo kraia (Folk art of the Nizhnii Novgorod region)
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2017. Sewn cl. The region of the lower Volga River distant from the westernized imperial capital of St. Petersburg preserved traditions of adorning everyday tools, carving architectural details, sculpting religious figures, embroidering clothing, and making lace long after these traditions died out in other parts of..... More
Maiakovskii: "Haute couture": Iskusstvo odevat'sia. Katalog materialov iz fondov Gosudarstvennogo muzeiia V. V. Maiakovskogo (Maiakovskii and "Haute couture": the art of dressing. Catalogue of materials from the collections of the State Maiakovskii Museum)
Moscow: Muz Maiakovskogo, 2015. sewn pb. The image Mayakovsky shaped can be inferred from actual articles of clothing, drawings, caricatures, and photographs from the Mayakovsky Museum published in this catalogue. Such articles as ties from prestigious haberdashers in New York, Parisian overcoats, and a posh Russian astrakhan indicate that the..... More
Narodnyi kostium Russkogo Severa XIX-nachala XX veka v sobranii Arkhangel'skogo muzei a izobrazitel'nykh iskusstv (Folk costume of the Russian north in the 19th and early 20th c. from the collection of the Arkhangelsk Museum of Fine Arts)
Moscow: Sev pal, 2012. sewn cl. Scholars and curators will find in this handbook a rich visual source on the history of costume and textile design in northern Europe. Distinct styles and patterns of folk art, especially as seen in women's clothing, survived in Russia well into the twentieth century..... More
Tamozhnia daet dobro. Kinoistorii v detaliakh. K 45-letiiu vykhoda v svet fil'ma "Beloe solntse pustyni"
Moscow: Muzei Vostoka, 2015. Sewn pb. The State Museum of the Orient (Museum if the Arts of Oriental Peoples, Muzei iskusstv narodov Vostoka) created an unusual exhibition to mark the anniversary of a movie on the struggle between the new Soviet authorities and Central Asian peoples resisting their authority. Illustrating..... More
Vologodskoe kruzhevo (Vologda Lace)
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 1998. saddle-stitched. This brief Russian Museum catalogue summarizes the achievements of the lace-making craft of northern Russia around Vologda. The author illustrates her sketch with pieces from the late eighteenth century to the 1990s, points out the qualities of the materials, the preferred being flax, describes..... More
Ermitazhnaia entsiklopediia tekstilia. Restavratsiia. Katalog vystavki / The Hermitage Encyclopedia of Textiles. Conservation. Exhibition Catalogue
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2017. Sewn pb. This is the kind of exhibition and catalogue that only the Hermitage could do - 387 pages of detailed commentary and profuse illustrations on textiles of all kinds (hence "encyclopedia"), from the obvious such as ecclesiastical vestments (Christian and Buddhist), military uniforms, and dress..... More
Sergei Ivanovich Sergel': etnograf i puteshestvennik (Sergei Ivanovich Sergel': ethnographer and traveler)
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2011. Sewn pb. This book published in the series on those whose work is connected with the Russian Ethnographic Museum (St. Petersburg) publishes photographs and writings relating to expeditions among the peoples of northern Russia, Finland and Norway, the Komi and Sami. The photographs of the people..... More
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European Slavs and the Peoples of Russia: [Published] in Commemoration of the 140th Anniversary of the First Ethnographic Exhibition Held in 1867
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2008. sewn cl., The panoply of costumes of the peoples of the Russian Empire published here not only documents an extraordinary variety of nations and cultures but conveys the beauty of forms, patterns, and colors that characterized traditional clothing. Related to both folk art and fashion, these..... More
“Svoia rubakha blizhe k telu”: kollektsiia rubakh v sobranii Rossiiskogo etnograficheskogo muzeia (Collection of traditional shirts in the Russian Ethnographic Museum)
Moscow: Severnyi palomnik, 2018. Sewn pb. The Russian Ethnographic Museum has such extensive costume and photographic collections on the peoples of the Russian Empire that the museum’s curator can survey and illustrate with both actual pieces and archival photographs distinct traditional costumes of fifteen regions from Eastern Siberia to the..... More
"Etnodzhins". Kollektsiia "narodnoi dzhinsy" iz sobraniia Rossiiskogo etnograficheskogo muzeia
Moscow: Severnyi Palomnik, 2016. Sewn pb. Taking a simple pragmatic material and ornamenting according to local taste has given the republics of the former Soviet Union a new kind of jeans: solid and durable, but also colorful and distinct to the culture. Collection catalogue of the Russian Ethnographic Museum. The..... More