![Turetskaia bania (The Turkish Bath [at Tsarskoe Selo]). A. Toeseva](/pictures/thumb/2083.jpg?v=1588454224)
St. Petersburg: Tsarskoe Selo / P-2, 2010. saddle-stitched. Catherine the Great had the custom of erecting a park structure, such as a pavilion or sculptural monument, to mark momentous victories. After victory over the Turks in 1791, she asked G. Quarenghi for a design, and he proposed a Turkish bath..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2020. Sewn pb. This is the third in a series of Hermitage exhibitions of works by non-Russian contemporary artists held at the Hermitage and inspired by its collections and its work as a museum of world art. The first two highlighted Anselm Kiefer and Adrian Ghenie, and..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2002. Saddle-stitched. Designed for the Hermitage's collection of Greek and Etruscan vases, the Hall of 20 columns reflects the mid-nineteenth-century view of antiquity: it is a space suited for art that is grand, harmonious, and restrained. It still fulfills the original purpose as a gallery for ancient..... More
St. Petersburg: Muzei-Zapovednik Petergof, 2019. Sewn pb. Authors and curators of this catalogue of an exhibition at Tsaritsyno Museum look into the role of the Peterhof suburban palace in the personal and public lives of the emperors and empresses of Russia. Archival photography show the interiors soon after the 1917..... More
Moscow: Gos Istoricheskii muzei (GIM), 2006. Saddle-stitched. The State Historical Museum restored and rebuilt on the original site chambers at one time occupied by the Romanovs. As a unique example of medieval architecture and interiors scrupulously adhering to historical documents it is an excellent visual source on early seventeenth century..... More
Moscow: Svarog i K, 2000. Sewn cl. This study of the interiors of churches, palaces, public buildings, and private residences from the baroque to art nouveau teems with information on a less accessible area of Russian art and architectural history. Through an extraordinary command of the sources, the author has..... More
![Kontsertnyi zal (The Concert Hall [at Tsarskoe Selo]). Irina Sepanenko](/pictures/thumb/2092.jpg?v=1588454224)
St. Petersburg: Tsarskoe Selo / P-2, 2010. Saddle-stitched. This brief catalogue of Tsarskoe Selo Museum Preserve presents the palace's neoclassical outbuilding designed by Giacomo Quarenghi. Especially well presented are the interiors expertly restored after damage in World War II. 16 p., 24 cm, approx. 30 color illus., Rus.`. More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2020. Saddle-stitched. This brief catalog of a Hermitage exhibition unfolds the life of one Alexander II's sons. Sergei had an impact on the culture of his time. He became the head of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society when he was on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land..... More
Moscow: Sovetskaia Rossiia, 1989. Sewn cl. This overview of the art of inlaid wood draws on works of furniture and architectural designs for floors, walls, and doors to illustrate how architects and furniture makers refined the art in palaces of St. Petersburg and Moscow like Tsarskoe Selo, Oranienbaum, Pavlovsk and..... More
St. Petersburg: Isaakievskii sobor / ZImin, 2006. sewn cl. The emblems of families, towns, provinces, and regions honor those who contributed to the construction of the church on the site where Alexander II was assassinated. They also make up excellent visual material tracing the development of heraldry in Russia. The..... More
St. Petersburg: Abris / Petergof, 2001. Saddle-stitched. St. Petersburg’s suburban ensembles are famous for their palaces designed and constructed by outstanding Western European and Russian architects. Often overlooked are the ancillary buildings, which, however, were designed by the same talented architects who did the famous palaces. This concise survey shows..... More
St. Petersburg: Abris / Petergof, 2001. Saddle-stitched. St. Petersburg’s suburban ensembles are famous for their palaces designed and constructed by outstanding Western European and Russian architects. Often overlooked are the ancillary buildings, which, however, were designed by the same talented architects who did the famous palaces. This concise survey shows..... More
St. Petersburg: Pavlovsk, 2008. sewn pb. Besides its beautiful of the palace itself and the quality of its collections of fine and applied art, Pavlovsk is exceptional for the integration of architecture and interior design, the architects in many cases creating the drawings for the manufacture of furniture, lighting implements..... More
St. Petersburg: Oranienbaum / Petronii, 2011. sewn pb. This catalogue of an exhibition at Oranienbaum Museum-Preserve uses various works of fine and decorative art, architectural drawings and plans, to show the way of life, taste, and collections at the great palace ensemble outside St. Petersburg first built by Peter the..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2009. saddle-stitched. After serving as living quarters for Grand Prince Alexander Pavlovich’s family, the large hall on the second floor of the Winter Palace was redesigned in the late eighteenth century by Ivan Starov as a grand dining room. Restored after the fire of December 1837 by..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2006. Saddle-stitched. The rooms discovered under a late eighteenth-century wing of the Winter Palace have enabled Hermitage architectural historians to recreate several rooms of Peter the Great’s palace of the early 1700s. Furnishing them with objects that belonged to Peter and with such works of English and..... More
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2014. sewn pb. The way styles of the past informed the decorative arts, architecture, and fine arts of Western Europe and Russia is the subject of this catalogue of works from the Hermitage's collections exhibited at Kazan. Paintings, sculpture, and prints; furniture, porcelain, metalwork, and costume show..... More
Moscow: Gos Istoricheskii muzei (GIM), 2015. sewn pb. As the interest in the history of the country arising from newly discovered artifacts and works of art grew during the mid nineteenth century (for example, Nicholas II commissioned a five-volume album of drawings of extant works of medieval art and architecture)..... More
St. Petersburg: Abris / Petergof, 2003. saddle-stitched. This brief publication outlines the architectural and design of the masterpiece of Late Baroque style outside St. Petersburg designed by Bartolomeo Rastrelli. Section heads: Main staircase; Ballroom; Chesme Hall; Blue Reception Room; Throne Room; White Banquet Hall; Chinese Lobby; Picture Hall; Partridge Reception..... More
Moscow: Rudentsovy, 2005. sewn cl. The author studies the interior in a rich period of Russian art and design known as the Silver Age when such new artistic styles as Symbolism, Art Nouveau, and forms of early avant-garde arose. She introduces her monograph by looking at the interior and its..... More
![Zhizn' v russkom stile (Life in Russian [Revival] Style). T. S. Ivanchenkova O. B. Strugova](/pictures/thumb/2028.jpg?v=1591382051)
St. Petersburg: Tsarskoe Selo, 2010. sewn pb. In the second half of the nineteenth century neglect and ignorance of medieval Russian art and architecture gave way to an appreciation of its aesthetic achievements and eventually, by the turn of the twentieth century, to a revival of medieval Russian forms in..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2009. sewn pb. Today’s Hermitage Museum grew out of the palace built for the Russian imperial family in the 1750s, an essential element of which was the church that Rastrelli designed within the palace, its dome and cross visible above the palace's roof line. In the gilded..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2005. Saddle-stitched. In this number of the series Rooms and Buildings of the Hermitage the author shows off the a masterpiece of interior design by the architect Alexander Briullov undertaken in 1938 after a fire destroyed many of the interiors of the Winter Palace. Briullov trained with..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2002. Saddle-stitched. Part of the New Hermitage, Van Dyck Hall is a splendid entrance hall to the building added to the Winter Palace and specifically designed as a gallery for the Hermitage's collections. Hung in the hall is the Hermitage's collection of paintings by Van Dyck. 27..... More
St. Petersburg: Petergof / Zolotoi Lev, n.d. Saddle-stitched. In the early years of the eighteenth century Peter the Great set aside territory on the Gulf of Finland for a palace near his new capital of St. Petersburg. By the middle of the 18th century it became a magnificent ensemble of..... More