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Author : M. W. Alpatov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Soviet icons, embroidery, jewellery, woodcarvings
ISBN : OCLC:867856962
Author : Anne Odom,Wendy R. Salmond
Publisher : Hillwood Museum & Gardens
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124169728
Sixteen scholars from Russia, Vienna, and the United States explore the fate of Russian art collections and libraries following the Russian Revolution in 1917, the institutions and individuals responsible for their sale, and the prominent collectors, libraries, and museums that acquired them. Unlike the widely publicized controversy surrounding Soviet-Nazi war loot and its restitution, the sales of the interwar period are not well known outside a small scholarly community. This volume reveals the extent of the Soviet government's voluntary ?realization? of Russia's cultural patrimony between 1918 and 1938 and its consequences for both the international art market and the perception of Russian art. The imperial Easter eggs by Fabergé and Old-Master paintings purchased by Andrew Mellon from the State Hermitage and now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. are the most celebrated works that changed hands. Equally significant are the bibliographic rarities from imperial libraries, icons and liturgical art from churches and monasteries, and antiques, furnishings and fine art from estates, palaces, and private homes. See the review in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/gift-guide/holiday-2009/ggantiques/list.html
Author : N. I︠U︡ Semenova,Natalya Semyonova,Nicolas V. Iljine
Publisher : Abbeville Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 0789211548
Selling Russia's Treasures documents one of the great cultural dramas of the twentieth century: the sale, by a cash-hungry Soviet government, of the artistic treasures accumulated by the Russian aristocracy over the centuries and nationalized after the October 1917 revolution. An astonishing variety of objects, from icons and illuminated manuscripts to Fabergé eggs and Old Master paintings, entered the collections of wealthy Westerners like Andrew Mellon and Armand Hammer in the 1920s and 30s. Written by the leading experts in the field and long regarded as the definitive book on the subject, the original Russian edition of Selling Russia's Treasures is sought after scholars and laymen alike. Now, for the first time, it is made available in English, in a revised and expanded edition that includes a new chapter on the secret files of the Hermitage, previously considered lost, as well as new research on the sale of religious art, and of twentieth-century French masterworks from the Museum of New Western Art. Numerous color plates reunite long-dispersed works in a virtual museum that illustrates the powerful blow inflicted on Russia's cultural heritage by these secretive sales, and rare photographs and archival documents help bring this buried history to light.
Author : Tessa Murdoch,Olga Dmitrieva
Publisher : Victoria & Albert Museum
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Design
ISBN : 1851777318
Published to accompany the exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Author : Joan Aruz,Ann Farkas,Elisabetta Valtz Fino,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art, Scythian
ISBN : 9781588392053
Author : Gosudarstvennye muzei Moskovskogo Kremli︠a︡
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Armor
ISBN : OCLC:81836682
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1732584001
Klim Rogov is a foreign journalist, and when Russia has a Bolshevik coup in 1917, he has a chance to leave the country and escape the violence of the civil war. He tries to take Nina, his fiancée, with him, but precious time is lost. Klim decides to stay with her and protect her while he still can.
Author : Christina Burrus,Agnès Carbonell
Publisher : I. B. Tauris
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UOM:39015034269616
With the collaboration of Agnes Carbonell; photography by Leonid Ogarev; translated from the French by Ros Schwartz and Sue Rose. Translation of: Collectionneurs russes. Includes index.
Author : Tatiana Fabergé,Eric-Alain Kohler,Valentin V. Skurlov
Publisher : Editions Slatkine
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art objects, Russian
ISBN : 2832104983
A ce jour plus de 3000 livres ont été publiés sur Carl Fabergé, la plupart d'auteurs se contentant de répéter systématiquement les mêmes choses et de mentionner les mêmes légendes et histoires. La majorité de ces ouvrages se basent sur les informations fournies par Eugène Carlovich Fabergé dans les années 30 ou H.C. Bainbridge, le premier à avoir écrit une biographie sur Carl Fabergé en 1949. L'incapacité d'acquérir du matériel conséquent avait comme impact auprès des érudits qu'ils ne pouvaient pas vérifier leur travail. Des lettres écrites par le Tsar, des factures Fabergé, des documents du Cabinet ou des inventaires des Bolcheviks ont été cachés en Russie depuis la Révolution. D'autres documents, comme les actes/dossiers de la famille Fabergé passés d'une génération à l'autre, n'étaient pas accessibles aux chercheurs. Ces dossiers contiennent entre autres des livres de caisse, des listes de marchandises confisquées pendant la période soviétique à Saint Petersbourg et Moscou, ainsi qu'une collection photographique comprenant notamment le service de table en argent fabriqué par Fabergé Moscou pour le grand industriel Alexander Kelkh. Pendant dix ans, les auteurs de cet ouvrage ont consulté et étudié ces archives inédites. Ce livre extraordinaire comprend une abondante iconographie et des documents approuvés, la plupart inédits à ce jour. Ce manuel est un chef-d'oeuvre, LE livre de référence sur l'histoire fascinante de la Maison Fabergé.
Author : Chrystia Freeland
Publisher : Crown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028516495
In the 1990s, all eyes turned to the momentous changes in Russia, as the world's largest country was transformed into the world's newest democracy. But the heroic images of Boris Yeltsin atop a tank in front of Moscow's White House soon turned to grim new realities: a currency in freefall and a war in Chechnya; on the street, flashy new money and a vicious Russian mafia contrasted with doctors and teachers not receiving salaries for months at a time. If this was what capitalism brought, many Russians wondered if they weren't better off under the communists. This new society did not just appear ready-made: it was created by a handful of powerful men who came to be known as the oligarchs and the young reformers. The oligarchs were fast-talking businessmen who laid claim to Russia's vast natural resources. The young reformers were an elite group of egghead economists who got to put their wild theories into action, with results that were sometimes inspiring, sometimes devastating. With unparalleled access and acute insight, Chrystia Freeland takes us behind the scenes and shows us how these two groups misused a historic opportunity to build a new Russia. Their achievements were considerable, but their mistakes will deform Russian society for generations to come. Along with a gripping account of the incredible events in Russia's corridors of power, Freeland gives us a vivid sense of the buzz and hustle of the new Russia, and inside stories of the businesses that have beaten the odds and become successful and profitable. She also exposes the conflicts and compromises that developed when red directors of old Soviet firms and factories yielded to -- or fought -- the radically new ways of doing business. She delves into the loophole economy, where anyone who knows how to manipulate the new rules can make a fast buck. Sale of the Century is a fascinating fly-on-the-wall economic thriller -- an astonishing and essential account of who really controls Russia's new frontier.
Author : Thomas Veser,Silvia Jonas,Martina Handwerker
Publisher : Rebo International Bv
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9036623480
Discover the rich heritage of Russia's fortresses, palaces, cathedrals, museums, monasteries and cities, from the era of Kievan Rus in the 9th century through to the All-Russian Exhibition Center of the 20th century.
Author : Marie Betteley,David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 0764360434
A rare look at the exquisite world of Russian treasures that lies beyond Fabergé. Imperial Russia evokes images of a vanished courts unparalleled splendor: magnificent tiaras, gem-encrusted necklaces, snuff boxes and other diamond-studded baubles of the tsars and tsarinas. During that time, jewelry symbolized power and wealth, and no one knew this better than the Romanovs. The era marked the high point of the Russian jewelers' art. Beginning with Catherine I's reign in 1725, in the century when women ruled Russia, until the Russian Revolution of 1917, the imperial capital's goldsmiths perfected their craft, and soon the quality of Russias jewelry equaled, if not surpassed, the best that Europes capitals could offer. Who created these jewels that helped make the Russian Court the richest in Europe? Hint: it wasn't Carl Fabergé. This is the first systematic survey in any language of all the leading jewelers and silver masters of Imperial Russia. The authors skillfully unfold for us the lives, histories, creations, and makers marks of the artisans whose jewels and silver masterworks bedazzled the tsars. The previously unheralded names include Pauzié, Bolin, Hahn, Koechli, Seftigen, Marshak, Morozov, Nicholls & Plincke, Grachev, Sazikov, and many others. The market for these exquisite masterworks is also explored, from its beginnings to today's auction world and collector demand. More than 600 stunning photos reacquaint the world with the master artisans and their creations.
Author : Nina Valentinovna Vernova
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 0828112851
Author : Art Gallery of Ontario
Publisher : London [England] : Merrell Publishers ; Toronto : Art Gallery of Ontario
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015053491232
Rubens was the most important and creative Flemish artist of the seventeenth century, an era noted for the internationalism of its art. As political and cultural barriers fell, Rubens and his contemporaries, including Van Dyck and Brueghel, travelled throughout Europe, working for a wide variety of patrons that included the different European courts, the Church and the most prominent private collectors of the age. Catherine the Great of Russia sent advisers throughout Europe in search of the most prestigious art collections, with the result that the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg is filled with examples of paintings, drawings and the decorative arts from Antwerp, where Rubens and his circle formed a close-knit artistic community, the hub of a network of influence that spanned the Continent. Rubens and his Age presents the jewels of the Hermitage's collection, many of them never before published, including Rubens's monumental allegory The Union of Earth and Water, as well as a remarkable selection of objets d'art, some of which were either owned, designed or commissioned by Rubens himself. This book represents an unprecedented opportunity to explore one of the world's finest collections of European art.
Author : William Malpas Clarke
Publisher : National Museums of Scotland
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124184867
The story of the Romanov jewels and of Englishman Albert Stopford who risked his life to smuggle millions of pounds worth of of the precious gems from Russia to London in 1917.
