Imperial Saint Petersburg : from Peter the Great to Catherine II / [curator, Brigitte de Montclos ; authors, B. de Montclos ... [et al.].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Milan : Skira ; Monaco : Grimaldi Forum, cop. 2004.Description: 317 p. : il. col. y n. ; 29 cmISBN:
  • 8876240160 (hbk.)
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Contents:
From the ancient Moscovy to the New Russia / B. de Montclos. -- A city to be built, a society to emerge / B. de Montclos. -- St. Petersburg seen through engravings / D.V. Lioubin. -- Peter the Great / V.A. Fedorov. -- St. Petersburg, imperial city / D.V. Lioubin. -- Catherine II, the "Sémiramis du Nord" / A. Soloviev. -- The architectural models from the Russian Fine Arts Academy / V.I. Bogdan ... [et al.]. -- Russian gold- and silver-work in the 18th century / L. Zavadskaïa. -- Catherine II and the European decorative arts / T.V. Rappe. -- Tula, the city of master craftsmen / M.N. Kosareva. -- Decorative arts during the era of Catherine II / T.V. Koudriavtseva. -- Catherine II, the collector / N. Serebriannaïa.

"With some six hundred exceptional loans from the Hermitage Museum and the St. Petersburg Fine Arts Academy, the exhibition put on by the Monaco Grimaldi Forum is a forceful illustration of the brilliance of this legendary city ..."--P. [9]

Bibliografía: p. 315-317.

From the ancient Moscovy to the New Russia / B. de Montclos. -- A city to be built, a society to emerge / B. de Montclos. -- St. Petersburg seen through engravings / D.V. Lioubin. -- Peter the Great / V.A. Fedorov. -- St. Petersburg, imperial city / D.V. Lioubin. -- Catherine II, the "Sémiramis du Nord" / A. Soloviev. -- The architectural models from the Russian Fine Arts Academy / V.I. Bogdan ... [et al.]. -- Russian gold- and silver-work in the 18th century / L. Zavadskaïa. -- Catherine II and the European decorative arts / T.V. Rappe. -- Tula, the city of master craftsmen / M.N. Kosareva. -- Decorative arts during the era of Catherine II / T.V. Koudriavtseva. -- Catherine II, the collector / N. Serebriannaïa.

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