Fine Arts

The Romanov Legacy: The Palaces of St. Petersburg

The Romanov Legacy: The Palaces of St. Petersburg. Zoia Belyakova, Marie Clayton (editor), Princess Katya Galitzine (foreword). A sumptuous album showing off the Romanov palaces, including the largest ones, such as The Winter Palace in St Petersburg and...

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...

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...

Treasures from the Kremlin [1979]

Treasures from the Kremlin. Polly Cone & John P. O'Neill (Editor), A.S. Nasibova (Foreword) and E.S. Sizov wih colleagues of the State Museums of the Moscow Kremlin. (Full Title: Treasures from the Kremlin: An Exhibition from the State Museums of the...

Gold In Azure: One Thousand Years of Russian Architecture

William Craft Brumfield. Gold In Azure: One Thousand Years of Russian Architecture.  A solid, ambitious and comprehensive illustrated history of Russian monumental architecture for both experts and general readers. Church architecture and many...

Land of the Firebird [Massie]

Suzanne Massie. Land of the Firebird: The Beauty of Old Russia.  Massie (1931-2025), an important authority on Russia, played a leading role in the relations between the USA, specifically during the Reagan years, and the Soviet Union in the final...

House of Faberge Masterpieces

Masterpieces from the House of Fabergé. Peter Carl Faberge, court jeweler to the czars, is a name synonymous with beauty, craftsmanship, and sumptuous excess. This exciting book blends some of the best photographs ever made of Faberge objects with...

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...

XVI Century Miniatures Illustrating Manuscript Copies of the Works of Jami

XVI Century Miniatures Illustrating Manuscript Copies of the Works of Jami from the USSR Collections. USSR (Moscow): Советский Художник, 1966. Text in both Russian and English. Color illustrations throughout the book. Hardcover with dustjacket in a clear...

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...

Russian Art at Hillwood

Russian Art at Hillwood. Katrina V. H. Taylor. The book is a concise and clearly-written presentationof the material found at Hillwood Museum. Marjorie Merriweather Post (1887-1973), heiress to the Post Cereal fortune, owned many extraordinary and...

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...

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 Kemenov. Vasily Surikov (Василий Суриков). Essential catalogue raisonné of the famed Russian realist and historical painter that includes paintings, sketches, studies, portraits and watercolors. 250 illustrations in color and black 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...

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...