Russian art: architecture, painting, sculpture

The publication covers the history of Russian art for ten centuries: from the miraculously preserved masterpieces of ancient Russian architecture and fresco murals, icon -painting images and objects of the Grand Duke and royal everyday life to the best examples of domestic art of its heyday (XIX - beginning of the 20th century) The history of Russian art in the presentation of Peter Petrovich Gnedich (1855-1925) is not only one of the best encyclopedic works that summarize numerous art history research, but also extremely fascinating, emotional and sometimes polemic narration, the story of not a detached observer, but a person who is deeply sensing and deeply sensitive loving Russian art. Created more than a hundred years ago, the work of Gnedich does not lose its relevance today, which is greatly facilitated by the presence of modern comments in the text, and an extensive illustrative series is engravings from the 19th -century books and modern photographs, reproductions of paintings and book illustrations, murals and mosaics - make This publication is unique