Arts and Crafts

The Pictorial History of the Russian Theatre

Herbert Marshall. The Pictorial History of the Russian Theatre.  A comprehensive account of all aspects of the major theatres of Russia from the Middle Ages to the prominent Moscow and Leningrad theatres of the 20th century. includes plays and other...

Palekh: The State Museum of Palekh Art

Palekh: The State Museum of Palekh Art. Vitaly Kotov and Larisa Taktashova. A profusely illustrated reference book with photos of gorgeous lacquer miniatures from the most famous artistic Russian village of all, featuring the best Palekh artists,...

Russian Houses [1st edition]

Elizabeth Gaynor, Kari Haavisto, Darra Goldstein. Russian Houses. Russian Houses offers an unmatched look at the architecture and interiors of Ostankino, the Menshikov Palace, and other homes of the princes and tsars. The rugged beauty of...

Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts

The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow (Государственный музей изобразительных искусств имени А.С. Пушкина, Москва). Compiles 391 works of art that are in the museum, with notes on each. Profusely illustrated in color and black in white. RUSSIAN...

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...

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 Imperial Style [Cerwinske, 1990]

Laura Cerwinske. Russian Imperial Style.  An elegant and beautifully illustrated, full-color paean to the lost world of 19th century Russia's aristocratic opulence melded with formal design. Cerwinske (1948-) focuses on eye-catching object d'art,...

Russian Gold And Silverwork, 17th-19th Century [Solodkoff]

Alexander Von Solodkoff. Russian Gold And Silverwork, 17th-19th Century.  Covers gold and silver centers including Moscow, St. Petersburg, Tobolsk, Velikiy Ustyug, and the Baltics, and more than a dozen of the leading masters, workshops and firms,...

Tobolsk Museum Reserve

Tobolsk Museum-Reserve (Тобольский музей-заповедник). Yu. S. Nadtochy (Ю. С. Надточий). Sverdlovsk: Mid-Urals Publishing House (Средне-Уральское книжное изд-во), 1988.  Tobolsk, an old city founded in 1590 in Tyumen Oblast, is the second-oldest...

Semenov Catalog circa 1982

Semenov Souvenirs Color Catalog. 1982. Published by NOVOEXPORT USSR MOSCOW. 20 pg catalog illustrating traditional Semenov matryoshka dolls that were in production at that time, plus additional birch bark, straw inlay and carved wood utensils. Text in...

Soviet porcelain 1920-30 (Советский фарфор) RUSSIAN 1975

Soviet porcelain 1920-1930 (Советский фарфор 1920-30 гг). Lydia Andreeva (Л. Андреева). Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. This book is the result of many years of work by the author, who studied the collections of state and factory...

Russian Porcelain Private Factories

V. Popov. Russian Porcelain: Private Factories. USSR (Leningrad): Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1980. Full-color index of porcelain hallmarks. Text in Russian, notes in English. Large hardcover with dustjacket. 320 pages. An excellent reference on Russian...

Russian Matryoshka

Russian Matryoshka. By Larissa Soloviova (author), Marina Marder (sponsor).  It's not easy to find a lot of decent information on Russian nesting dolls, particularly in book form. This volume does a nice job of balancing historical information on...

Russian Lacquered Miniatures

Vladimir Guliayev. Russian Lacquered Miniatures (Fedoskino Palekh Mstiora Kholui). Introduction and detailed histories about the four most accomplished and renown Russian miniature art centers. This is an extensive annotated catalog with descriptions of...

Fedoskino Miniature Lacquer Art

Nikolai Malakhov. Fedoskino (Федоскино). Lavish hardcover describes the development of this unique miniature lacquer art beginning with the early XIX Century, the mid-20th century artel ear, and ends with the late Soviet period. Index of each individual...

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...

Kholui: Lacquered Miniatures

Larissa Soloviova. Kholui: Lacquered Miniatures. Translated from the Russian by Evgeny Filippov, designed by Vassily Kiselev and Anatoly Savelov, photographs by Alexei Matveyev & Robert Papikian.  A comprehensive study of Kholui Miniature Art...

Russian Toys: Zagorsk

Russian Toys: From the Collection of the Zagorsk Museum of Toys. G. Dain. USSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences. USSR (Moscow): Sovietskaya Rossiya, 1987. Small cloth hardcover in a decorative pictorial slipcase. 200 pages. 168 color...

Russian Folk-Style Figurines: A Collector's Notes

Russian Folk-Style Figurines: A Collector's Notes. Gennadi Blinov. A comprehensive guide to carved folk figures, including bird houses, whistles, rattles, straw dolls, horses, weather vanes, painted clay pottery, birch bark and willow rods toys, and much...

Collecting Russian Art & Antiques

Collecting Russian Art & Antiques. Marina Bowater. The author, a Russian porcelain scholar and collector, has run commercial galleries in London for many years. She discusses with great enthusiasm many collectible arts from both Imperial and soviet...