Monuments of church antiquity in Petersburg-Petrograd-Leningrad

The monograph of the St. Petersburg historian and art historian, the leading researcher of the State Russian Museum of N. V. Bivovarova is devoted to the history of the formation of collections of monuments of church art in St. Petersburg from the middle of the XIX to the 30s. XX century The book is based on documentary materials stored in the largest archives of St. Petersburg and Moscow. The edition includes essays about the Museum of the Old Russian art of the Imperial Academy of Arts, collections of Count S. G. Stroganov, Counts of Musin-Pushkin, V. A. Prokhorov, N. P. Likhachev, considers the history of the formation and fate of church-archaeological museums in Alexandro- Nevsky Lavra, Museums of the Society of Amateurs of Ancient Writing, etc., much attention was paid to the history of the organization of the department of Christian antiquities of the Russian Museum of Emperor Alexander III - the largest St. Petersburg meeting of monuments of church art.
The publication will be useful for professionals in the field of St. Petersburg, the historians of the Church and all interested in the history of collecting