This volume draws on a wealth of previously unpublished material to tell the tragic story of the last of the Romanovs as it has never been told before. With more than 630 irreplaceable works of art, costumes, photographs, and private and state documents, and drawing from Nicholas and Alexandra's own personal letters and diaries, it reveals their luxurious world and loving family life - and the horrors of their final years - in moving and compelling detail. Nicholas & Alexandra accompanies an exhibition of the largest collection of imperial family treasures ever to leave Russia. Then, in reproductions of original documents from the State Archive of the Russian Federation, the private world of Nicholas and Alexandra is unveiled. Udgivelsesår: 1998 Sider: 407 Sprog: Engelsk
Splendours of the Romanovs From 11 July to 13 September 2009 the Grimaldi Forum in Montecarlo presents an exhibition focused on Mother Russia during the Romanov era. The Romanov dynasty reigned over Russia for three hundred years. Every sovereign was without exception crowned in the cathedral of the Dormition within the Kremlin. The coronation ceremonies used to return the former capital to the splendour it had lost to Saint Petersburg. The exhibition and its catalogue aim to make it possible to rediscover a Moscow that is frequently overlooked by foreign visitors in favour of the northern capital and, through the works of art embodying the dynasty, reveal the reign of the Romanovs, which symbolizes almost three centuries of Russian artistic riches. Udgivelsesår: 2009 Sider: 312 Sprog: Engelsk
Forlag: Paris Type: Hardcover
Illustreret udgivelse om Danmark og zarernes Rusland 1600-1900, sandsynligvis katalog eller ledsagebog til en museumudstilling på Det Nationalhistoriske Museum på Frederiksborg Slot. Bogen gennemgår de politiske og kulturelle relationer mellem de to monarkier med vægt på kongehus, diplomati, kunst og repræsentation. Teksten ledsages af gengivelser af portrætter, ceremonielle dragter, kunstværker og historiske dokumenter, som belyser forbindelsen mellem Danmark og den russiske kejsermagt gennem tre århundreder. Type: Paperback Kunst- og historiebog om forholdet mellem Danmark og zarernes Rusland i perioden ca. 1600-1900. Forsiden viser et maleri af en russisk kejserinde i fuld regaliepåklædning, og udgivelsen er to-sproget med både dansk og russisk titel på omslaget. Bogen er sandsynligvis udgivet i forbindelse med en udstilling på Det Nationalhistoriske Museum på Frederiksborg Slot og fo
Treasures from the Kremlin From 1547, when Ivan the Terrible declared himself tsar of Russia, to 1712, when Peter the Great moved the capital to St. Petersburg, one of the highlights of Moscow court life was the formal presentation of diplomatic gifts to the tsar. These fabulous offerings have been preserved intact in the Moscow Kremlin Armory, in a collection that cannot be matched by any other royal treasury in the world. Now many of these objects are published in this gloriously illustrated volume -- the first in English on the subject -- that accompanies a major exhibition at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Ranging from arms and armor and exquisite textiles to spectacular works in gold and silver, gifts received by the tsars are masterpieces of the decorative arts -- and afford a fascinating glimpse of international relations during a period when Russia emerged as a world power. Side
The Soviet Trade in Nationalized Art, 1917-1938 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 Her
zarina fra Danmark Om Christian IX's datter, prinsesse Dagmar's (1847-1928) liv som kejserinde i Rusland, til hun i 1919 flygtede til England og senere til Danmark. Fremstillingen bygger bl.a. på den omfattende korrespondance, som Dagmar førte med sin store familie overalt i Europa Titel: Dagmar : zarina fra Danmark Forfatter: Inger-Lise Klausen Forlag: Lindhardt og Ringhof Udgivelsesår: 1997 Sider: 366 Sprog: Dansk
Architecture of the Tsars Before becoming a city, St. Petersburg was a utopian vision in the mind of its founder, Peter the Great. Conceived by him as Russia's "window to the West," it evolved into a remarkably harmonious assemblage of baroque, rococo, neoclassical, and art nouveau buildings that reflect his taste and that of his successors, including Anna I, Elizabeth I, Catherine the Great, and Paul I. Crisscrossed by rivers and canals, this "Venice of the North," as Goethe dubbed it, is of unique beauty. Never before has that beauty been captured as eloquently as on the pages of this sumptuous volume. From the stately mansions lining the fabled Nevsky Prospekt to the magnificent palaces of the tsars on the outskirts of the city, including Peterhof, Tsarskoe Selo, Oranienbaum, Gatchina, and Pavlovsk, photographer Alexander Orloff's portrait of St. Petersburg does full justice to the vi
