CDpc Grand Ducal, Tsar and Imperial Hunting

The new volume of the "Electronic Library" of the publishing house "DirectMedia" presents a CD-version of the rare book by N.I. Kutepov - a famous historian, major-general, head of the economic part of the Imperial Hunt. Published in the late 19th century, Kutepov's work immediately became a remarkable monument of book art and cultural history. To this day, this work remains unsurpassed in terms of the wealth of collected materials.
The book combines unique archival material on the history of hunting in Russia and in Russia from the time of the formation of the Old Russian state to the end of the XIX century. Extensive notes contain texts of authentic historical documents: works of Russian historians, notes of foreign travelers, chronicles and documentary evidence, literary works, excerpts from the hunting diaries of the tsars and much more.
The book tells about the development of hunting, about the subtleties of dog and bird hunting, about hunting life, equipment, beliefs and spells, about breeds of dogs and horses, hunting grounds, about the composition of officials and servants of the tsar's hunting, about its everyday and political significance.
In the electronic edition the texts in the old and new orthography are presented in parallel, as well as illustrations made by a pleiad of famous Russian artists who worked on the design of the "Tsar's Hunt": I. E. Repin, F. E. Fyodorov, F. F. Kuznetsov, and others.E. Repin, F.A. Rubo, V.A. Serov, V.I. Surikov, L.O. Pasternak, K.V. Lebedev, A.P. Ryabushkin, E.E. Lansere, A.N. Benois, A.M. and V.M. Vasnetsov and many others. Nikolai Semenovich Samokish, one of the outstanding graphic artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, is the author of the edition's binding design, drawings of the front panels and many illustrations in the text.
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