Fine Arts

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...

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...

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...

A Catalog of Soviet Porcelain, illustrated

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...

Miniature Portrait [Миниатюрный портрет в России XVIII века]

Andrei A. Karev. Miniature Portrait in Russia: 18th Century. Миниатюрный портрет в России XVIII века. A fascinating look at a unique and special 18th century Russian phenomenon: portrait miniatures. TEXT IN RUSSIAN. Summary and list of illustrations...

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...