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...

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...

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...

The Greeting Card in Russia (XIX century)

The Greeting Card in Russia (End of the XIX Century to beginning of the XX Century). Yuri Kombolin, author, editor and introduction. English translation by Kiesa Malen and Chelsea Ray. Greeting cards...

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...

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...

Catalog of Russian Toys:in Zagorsk Museum

Russian Toys: From the Collection of the Zagorsk Museum of Toys. G. Dain. USSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences. USSR (Moscow): Sovetskaya Rossiya, 1987. Small cloth hardcover in a decorative...

Russian Folk-Style Figurines: A Collector's Notes

Russian Folk-Style Figurines: A Collector's Notes. Gennadi Blinov. A one-of-a-kind handbook that guides the reader through a collector's lifelong journey learning about the many carved folk figures...

Western European Drawings: Pushkin State Museum

Western European Drawings: Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Западноевропейский Рисунок: Государственный музей изобразительных искусств имени А.С.Пушкина). Evgeny Semenovich Levitan (Е.С. Левитан)...

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...

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...

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...

Art of the Russian Matryoshka [1st ed]

Art of the Russian Matryoshka. R. Ertl and R. Hibberd. This book was written, produced and published a while ago, when cooperation with Russia was deemed fundamental to improving world relationships...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...