| Description |
493 pages, 32 unnumbered leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
To serve God and uplift humanity -- Radiant and many-colored Kiev -- "This happened for our sins" -- Holy Moscow: The Third Rome -- Inside and outside the walls of the Kremlin -- A rebel in his own land -- The first Romanovs -- The Great Peter -- Elizabeth: Bright colors and gilt -- Catherine: "A mind infinitely more masculine" -- The years of war and peace -- The old and true ways -- The treasure house -- Alexander Pushkin -- "Soul-inspired flight": The arts in Pushkin's time -- Death of the poet -- The Babylon of the snows -- The expansive countryside -- Heroes and anti-heroes -- The wanderers and the mighty handful -- Ice slides and Easter eggs: Russia celebrates -- Merchant Princes -- Petipa and the Imperial Ballet -- The world of art -- Diaghilev and the ballets russes -- The Avant-Garde |
| Summary |
A beautifully written history of the now vanishing culture of pre revolutionary russia. A Culture which produced some of the most imspiring art, literature, dance and music the world has ever known |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 461-472 |
| Subject |
Art, Russian -- History.
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Art, Russian.
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| LC no. |
80012860 |
| ISBN |
0671230514 |
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0671460595 (paperback) |
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096441841X (paperback) |
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