Arts

Artistic Ceramics of Gzhel and Skopin in the Russian State Museum [RUSSIAN]

Natalya Grigorieva. Artistic Ceramics of Gzhel and Skopin in the Collections of the State Russian Museum (Художественная Керамика Гжели и Скопина в Собраниях Государственного Русского Музея). An important reference catalog on Gzhel and Skopin ceramics in...

Aivazovsky 1817-1900 [IN RUSSIAN]

AIVAZOVSKY 1817-1900 (АЙВАЗОВСКИЙ 1817-1900). Valery Pilipenko (Валерей Пилипенко). Folio art book with excellent color reproductions of Russian marine painter Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky. Monograph essay details Aivazovsky's connections with...

Engraving from the Time of Peter the Great [RUSSIAN TEXT]

Engraving from the Time of Peter the Great (Гравюра Петровского Времени). M. Alexeeva. RUSSIAN TEXT. The book is the first to comprehensively cover the issues of the formation and development of engraving art in the time of Peter the Great (1700s). The...

Russian Architectural Heritage [Photo-album, 1969]

Russian Heritage (aka Память Росси;: Visages de la Russie; In Russlands Gedenken). Russian Architectural Heritage that covers Moscow, Leningrad (at the time), Novgorod, Pskov, Kizhi, Yaroslavl,Solovki, Rostov the Great, Vladimir-Suzdal, Volga region, etc...

State Museum of Arts of the Karakalpak [IN RUSSIAN]

Savitsky, I.V. State Museum of Arts of the Karakalpak Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Государственный музей искусств Каракалпакской АССР). Book describes three departments of the State Museum of Arts of the Karakalpak Autonomous Soviet Socialist...

Architectural Monuments of Moscow [RUSSIAN TEXT]

Тамара Моисеева. Памятники архитектуры Москвы: Земляной город. (Tamara Moiseeva. Architectural Monuments of Moscow: Earthworks Town).   Volume 3 in the series "Architectural Monuments of Moscow". First edition of a lovingly produced and...

A Catalog of Soviet Porcelain [Советский Фарфор]

Советский фарфор. Каталог. (A Catalog of Soviet Porcelain).  An illustrated catalog IN RUSSIAN of Soviet porcelain from the high-water mark years of the 1930's through 1980's. More than 170 sculptures and decorative porcelain are shown from...

Russian Enamel Miniatures [IN RUSSIAN]

Русская Миниатюра На Эмали (Russian Enamel Miniatures). G.N. Komelova. Miniatures on enamel were widespread in Russia in the XVIII century. The types of works included ceremonial and intimate portraits, ancient and biblical subjects, - led by a group of...

Илья Глазунов - Фотоальбом (Ilya Glazunov. Photo Album.)

Vasily Zakharchenko. Ilya Glazunov - Photo Album. (Илья Глазунов - Фотоальбом.)  [IN RUSSIAN]. Acclaimed realistic artist born in 1930 in St. Petersburg. During the height of Communism (1970s-1980s) he used themes from Eastern Orthodoxy...

Russian Niello (Русское Черневое Искусство)

Russian Niello (Русское Черневое Искусство). Marina Postnikov, Nina Platonov, Bella Ulyanov. Iskusstvo, 1972. 144 pages, illustrated.  Text in Russian. From the days of Kievan Rus, Slavic craftsmen have worked in niello, which is an alloy that...