Fine Arts

Three Centuries of Russian Painting [1994]

Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin [Masters of Russian Painting]

Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin (Иван Иванович Шишкин). Мастера Русской Живописи series. Leningrad:  Художник РСФСР, 1990. Softcover (wraps), 24 pages. This small monograph, in Russian, is dedicated to the outstanding realist and member of the Peredvizhniki...

Konstantin Makovsky The Tsar's Painter in America and Paris

Konstantin Makovsky: The Tsar's Painter in America and Paris. Monumental in scale and rich in exotic detail Konstantin Makovsky's stunning paintings epitomize the charm of Old Russia. The first full survey in English of the artist's career, with glorious...

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...

Artistic Monuments of Vologda

Artistic Monuments of Vologda. Art Museums of Ancient Russian Towns (Художественные памятники Вологды). Alexander Alexandrovich Rybakov (Рыбаков Александр Александрович). Leningrad: Художник РСФСР, 1980. Large 4to hardcover, decorated gray cloth with...

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...

Эрмитаж: История Строительства и архитектура зданий

Эрмитаж История Строительства и архитектура зданий (The Hermitage. A History of It's Construction and Architecture). IN RUSSIAN. By Авторский Коллектив (A Team of Authors).  A richly illustrated history in photos, plans and documents...

Советский фарфор Каталог (A Catalog of Soviet Porcelain.)

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...

Russian Imperial Style [1990]

Russian Imperial Style. Laura Cerwinske. A sumptuously illustrated, full-color book re-creates the world of Russian aristocratic opulence and design, beautiful objects, and magnificent art and architecture through gorgeous pictures and rich text. Covers...

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...