Churches and Icons

Early Russian Icon, 11th-16th centuries [In Russian]

Early Russian icon, 11th-16th centuries (Икона древней Руси XI-XVI вв). Book is structured around three thematic cycles: Christ, Mother of God, and Ecclesiastical History. Includes (in Russian), a prominent work by theologian and iconographer Leonid...

Icon and Devotion: Sacred Spaces in Imperial Russia

Oleg Tarasov. Icon and Devotion: Sacred Spaces in Imperial Russia. In this well-researched book, the author tackles the meaning of the Russian icon, which is a tall subject indeed. He approaches the craft of icon-making by setting into context the forms...

Andrei Rublev Illustrated folio [TEXT IN HUNGARIAN]

Gyorgy Istvan, & Nemenyi Ferenc. Rubljov [Rublev]. Kepzomuveszeti Alap, Kiadovallalata Budapest, 1973. IN HUNGARIAN (with Russian supplement). Oversize edition with images of his icons and frescoes. Approximately 60 color illustrations, unpaginated...

Monasteries and Convents of ROCOR [1990]

Monasteries and Convents of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad: An Historical Review. George Seide. English translation by Theophilos Lasswell. Munich: Monastery of Saint Job of Pochaev. 210 pages. Standard paperback in very good condition. illustrations...

Church Culture of St. Petersburg

The Church Culture of St. Petersburg. Viacheslav Mukhin. St. Petersburg: Ivan Fedorov, 1994. An exemplary exploration of the main churches, revered icons, local saints, and holy places of St. Petersburg from 1721 to 1917. Mukhin shows how the many works...

Cathedral of the St. Sophia [UKRAINIAN] 1971

Sophia Kievskaya (Софія Київська). IN UKRAINIAN. Kyiv: Mistetstvo, 1971. A celebration of architecture, and of the mosaics and frescoes of the Cathedral of the St. Sophia, built in Kyiv in 1037. It was named after Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom) Cathedral in...

A Thousand Years of Christianity in Ukraine

A Thousand Years of Christianity in Ukraine: An Encyclopedic Chronology. Compiled and edited by Osyp Zinkewych and Andrew Sorokowski. CANADA (Toronto): Smoloskyp Publishers, 1988. 312 pages. Profusely illustrated with black and white and color plates...

Church in Many Lands (J.J. Burke) [1915]

Fr. J. J Burke. The Church in Many Lands: A Trip Around the World [records the work of the Church in Hawaii, the Orient, Palestine, Italy & France]. John J. Burke (1875–1936) was a Paulist priest and editor of the Catholic World from 1903 to...

Rublev in the Collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery [RUSSIAN]

А. Рублев в Собрания Государственной Третьяковской Галереи (A. Rublev in the Collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery).  E. K. Guseva. TEXT IN RUSSIAN. Full color reproductions of the icons painted by Andrei Rublev that are in the State...

Churches and Monasteries: Architecture of Russia

Architecture of Russia from Old to Modern: Churches and Monasteries (Volume 1). An amazing compendium of Orthodox churches and monasteries before the age of glasnost. Published by the Russian Orthodox Youth Committee, 1973. 296 pages, profusely...