Fine Arts

Russian Houses

Elizabeth Gaynor, Kari Haavisto, Darra Goldstein. Russian Houses. Taschen Evergreen, 1994. 287 pages. Over 300 full color photographs. Large heavy hardcover with dustjacket in a clear protective jacket cover. Unobtrusive white label on half-title page,...

Gardens of the Tsars

Margrethe Floryan. Gardens of the Tsars: A Study of the Aesthetics, Semantics and Uses of Late 18th Century Russian Gardens. Dr. Floryan traces the development of the Russian garden tradition during Catherine's reign in the dual context of Russian roots...

Carl Faberge Goldsmith to Imperial Russia

A. Kenneth Snowman. Carl Fabergé: Goldsmith to the Imperial Court of Russia. Peter Carl Gustavovich Fabergé (1846-1920) raised the creation of fine jewelry and fantasy objects to their highest point in history. Although he is famous for the...

Russian Odyssey: Riches Of The State Russian Museum

Clare Murray; Vladimir Gusyev; Kenneth MacInnes; Vladimir Dorokhov; Sergei Petrov. Russian Odyssey: Riches Of The State Russian Museum. Full-color beautifully detailed catalog that documents the 300 plus objects from the State Russian Museum,...

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...

Three Centuries of Russian Painting [1994]

Daniel Benjamin Boyce, Alexandra Loseva, Vadim Matafonov. Three Centuries of Russian Painting. Wonderfully chosen selection of well-known and unknown paintings. Text in English. Notes, short bios of arists at the back. Reproductions printed on high...

In the Russian Style [J. Onassis]

Jacqueline Onassis, editor. With the Cooperation of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Introduction by Audrey Kennett. In the Russian Style.  NY: Viking Press (A Studio Book): 1976. Hardcover, 184 pages. Illustrated in black and white and color. In...

Konstantin Makovsky The Tsar's Painter in America and Paris

Konstantin Makovsky: The Tsar's Painter in America and Paris. Wendy Salmond, Wilfried Zeisler, et al. (Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens Series.) Monumental in scale and rich in exotic detail, Konstantin Makovsky's stunning paintings epitomize the...

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...

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...

Vasily Surikov (Василий Суриков)

Vladimir Semenovich Kemenov. Vasily Surikov (Василий Суриков). Essential catalogue raisonné of the famed Russian realist and historical painter.  Many color and black and white illustrations that are complimented with companion text...

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...

Eugene Klimoff: Selected Works

Eugene Klimoff: Selected Works. UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA JOURNAL, 2006. Hardcover, unpaginated (66 pages). Hardcover, no dustjacket as issued, color and black and white illustrations. Dual-language text (English and Russian). 1 copy only. Eugene Klimoff was...

Aivazovsky, Marine Painter (1817-1900)

Aivazovsky - 1817-1900. Compiled and Introduced by Nikolai Novouspensky. Translated from the Russian by Richard Ware. Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky was a prolific painter who lived and worked in Crimea. He is most famous for his marine paintings. His...

Faberge: Goldsmith and Jeweller to the Russian Imperial Court

Charles Bainbridge. Peter Carl Faberge: Goldsmith and Jeweller to the Russian Imperial Court. His Life and Work. Originally published in 1949, this important title was compiled and written by a personal friend of Faberge. Bainbridge later managed...

Monuments of Russian Architecture and Art Памятники Русской Архитектуры

V.N. Ivanov. Monuments of Russian Architecture and Art (Памятники Русской Архитектуры и Искусства. XI - XIX веков). TEXT IN RUSSIAN, ILLUSTRATION TITLES in ENGLISH. Beautiful photographs by professional photographers on some of the...

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...

Moscow: Treasures and Traditions

Moscow: Treasures and Traditions (Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service). W. Bruce Lincoln, Olga Gordeeva, John Bowlt, other authors. The rich Moscow artistic legacy and the effects of various political, social and religious changes on the...

An Imperial Collection: Women Artists

J. Pomeroy, R. Blakesley, V. Matveyev, E. Renne. An Imperial Collection: Women Artists from the State Hermitage Museum. The authors have created scholarly biographical profiles of 15 women artists, more or less in chronological order, and explore the...