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Moscow: Muz Maiakovskogo, 2010. sewn pb. Besides the insights into his life that Liudmila Maiakovskii's relationship with her brother provides, she was an artist and designer herself. As the photographs from the early twentieth century reveal, she was among the first women to make a career of design — in..... More

St. Petersburg: Slavia, 1996. Sewn pb. The Hermitage honored the 100th anniversary of the opening of Baron Alexander von Stieglitz’s museum-school with this exhibition of furniture, tapestries, majolica, porcelain, glass, textiles, embroidery, and jewelry. Many of these works were originally brought to St. Petersburg by Stieglitz and his collector-agents for..... More

St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii Religii, 2011. Sewn pb. The museum’s collection has paintings on religious subjects from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century. They represent several styles in which the Armenian church and artists dealt with sacred themes: icons, general biblical scenes, depiction of the main events in Armenian..... More

Moscow: Gos Istoricheskii muzei (GIM), 2018. Sewn pb. Works from London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, and various Russian sources illustrate the tastes and interests of a homey and widespread form of applied and decorative art. This first scholarly catalogue of the Historical Museum’s collection is nicely produced with large color plates..... More

St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2001. sewn cl. The collection of the Russian Museum stems from collections built in the pre-Revolutionary period, first, from the inspired collecting of Nikolai Burdunov and, second, from the Handicraft Museum in St. Petersburg, whose works passed to the Russian Museum after its closing. The author..... More

Moscow: Muz Vostoka, 2009. pb. The author surveys a complex subject in a concise manner in an attempt to give an integrated picture of the arts of the peoples of the Caucasus. The basis of her study is the collection of the State Museum of Arts of Asian Peoples in..... More

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

St. Petersburg: Pavlovsk, 2012. sewn pb. The museum at Pavlovsk, bound as it is by the dimensions of the eighteenth-century palace, can keep only a small part of its collections on display and hence the significance of the publication of complete collection catalogues that make available for researchers the museum’s..... More

Moscow: Sev pal, 2015 (1st ed. 2009). Sewn pb. Although the word guidebook implies a list of many items with brief entries about each one, this book is more a scholarly monograph about ecclesiastical art held in the Yaroslav State Historical, Architectural, and Art Museum-Preserve. Especially useful are the abundant..... More

Riazan: Riazan Historical and Architectural Museum Preserve, 2016. Pb. Identifying the distinct aesthetic and technical characteristics of Riazan embroidery, the author outlines methods of embroidering, sources of fabrics, conventional patterns, the meaning of embroidered designs in folk lore and everyday peasant culture. Works from a museum rarely seen by scholars..... More

Moscow: Grand Kholding, 2010. Sewn pb. The authors catalogue and describe ninety-one textile works originating in the Yarislavl area and now preserved in various museum and private collections. Artist-craftswomen embroidered often on fine Western European fabrics images of saints outlined with pearls and filigree. Vestments and altar cloths also display..... More

Moscow: Pashkov dom, 2010. sewn cl. The works catalogued here entered the Russian State Library (State Lenin Library at that time) as trophy art taken by Soviet forces from the German Museum of the Book in Leipzig. Since it is only recently that Russian Federation policy "On Displaced Cultural Valuables"..... More