Author: Eugène-Melchior vicomte de VogüéPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Russian Portraits
Author: Clare SheridanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Soviet Union
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Russian Self-portraits
Author: David AttiePublisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The self-portraits in this book were taken by visitors in the summer 1976 at an American cultural exchange visit, Photography USA, in Kiev.
Portraits of Old Russia
Author: Donald OstrowskiPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317462378
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
This book introduces readers to a little-known place and time in world history – early modern Russia, from its beginnings as Muscovy, in the fourteenth century, through the reign of Peter I (1689-1725) – by portraying the lives of representative individuals from the major levels of the society of that era. The portraits, written by professional historians, are imaginative reconstructions or composites of individual lives, rather than biographies. The portraits are arranged into socio-political categories, and include members of ruling families, government servitors, clerks, military personnel, church prelates, monks, provincial landowners, townspeople and artisans, Siberian explorers and traders, free peasants, serfs, slaves and holy fools. Using these portraits, the book brings old Russian society to life in an interesting way.
Portraits of Old Russia
Author: Donald OstrowskiPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317462386
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This book introduces readers to a little-known place and time in world history – early modern Russia, from its beginnings as Muscovy, in the fourteenth century, through the reign of Peter I (1689-1725) – by portraying the lives of representative individuals from the major levels of the society of that era. The portraits, written by professional historians, are imaginative reconstructions or composites of individual lives, rather than biographies. The portraits are arranged into socio-political categories, and include members of ruling families, government servitors, clerks, military personnel, church prelates, monks, provincial landowners, townspeople and artisans, Siberian explorers and traders, free peasants, serfs, slaves and holy fools. Using these portraits, the book brings old Russian society to life in an interesting way.
Russian Portraits
Author: Eugène-Melchior vicomte de VogüéPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Portraits without Frames
Author: Lev OzerovPublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 168137269X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Isaac Babel, Dmitry Shostakovich, and Anna Akhmatova star in this series of portraits of some of the greatest writers, artists, and composers of the twentieth century. "We stopped and Shklovsky told me / quietly, but clearly, / 'Remember, we are on our way out. / On our way out.' And I recalled / ... the wall of books, / all written by a man / who lived / in times that were hard to bear." Lev Ozerov’s Portraits Without Frames offers fifty shrewd and moving glimpses into the lives of Soviet writers, composers, and artists caught between the demands of art and politics. Some of the subjects—like Anna Akhmatova, Isaac Babel, Andrey Platonov, and Dmitry Shostakovich—are well-known, others less so. All are evoked with great subtlety and vividness, as is the fraught and dangerous time in which they lived. Composed in free verse of deceptively artless simplicity, Ozerov’s portraits are like nothing else in Russian poetry.
Russian Painting
Author: Peter LeekPublisher: Parkstone International
ISBN: 1780429754
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
From the 18th century to the 20th, this book gives a panorama of Russian painting not equalled anywhere else. Russian culture developed in contact with the wider European influence, but retained strong native intonations. It is a culture between East and West, and both influences in together. The book begins with Icons, and it is precisely Icon-painting which gave Russian artist their peculiar preoccupation with ethical questions and a certain kind of palette. It goes on the expound the duality of their art, and point out the originality of their contribution to world art. The illustrations cover all genres and styles of painting in astonishing variety. Such figures as Borovokovsky, Rokotov, Levitsky, Brullov, Fedatov, Repin, Shishkin and Levitan and many more are in these pages.
Portraits of Old Russia
Author: Donald G. OstrowskiPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780765627292
Category : Imaginary biography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
First Published in 2015. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
Russian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil
Author: Thomas MichellValentin Serov
Author: Elizabeth Kridl ValkenierPublisher:
ISBN: 9780810118263
Category : Painting, Russian
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
At the age of 23, in 1888, Valentin Serov burst onto the Moscow art scene with his portrait, Girl with Peaches. Painted in the Impressionist manner, this debut work heralded the change from 19th-century realism to 20th-century modernism in Russia. He quickly became the pre-eminent portraitist of Russia's Silver Age.