Jewelry and Decorations

Code: 006441
Svirin, A.N
Iuvelirnoe Iskusstvo Drevnei Rusi: XI-XVII Vekov

[ Early Russian jewelry work: XI-XVII : ]
Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1972
Language: Russian

Price: $ 49.00

78 color illustrations. Captions are in Russian, English, French, and German

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Code: 015373
Skurlov, V., Smorodinova, G
Faberzhe i Russkie Pridvornye Iuveliry

[ Faberge and the Russian court jewellers : ]
Moscow: Terra-Knizhnyi Klub, 2001
Language: Russian

Price: $ 39.00

This book is about the formation of the Russian national school of jewelers on the threshold of the 19th-20th centuries. Among the outstanding masters were: Carl Faberge (1846-1920), P. Ovchinnikov, and I.

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Code: 005123E
Paskhal`nye Iaitsa Faberzhe
Mul`timediinyi Al`bom
[ Faberge Easter Eggs : Multimedia album ]
Moscow: KOMINFO, 1997
Language: English

Price: $ 59.00

The famous collection of Faberge Easter Eggs was made to mark the notable events in the life of the imperial family and in Russian history at large. Over 50 eggs were made during of the firm `s existence, and each of them is unique, concealing a surprise of its own.

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Code: 021828
Muntian, Tatiana
Faberzhe
Velikie Iuveliry Rossii : Sokrovishcha Oruzheinoi Palaty
[ Faberzhe : Great jewellers of Russia: The Treasures of the Arms Chamber ]
Moscow: Krasnaia Ploshchad, 2000
Language: Russian

Price: $ 69.00

This book-album includes works by the great jewelers of the Faberge family housed in the Arms Chamber (Kremlin). Gustav Faberge started his gold and silver work business in St. Petersburg in 1848, and then expanded it to several of the largest cities of Russia.

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Code: 015352
Iurgenson, G.A
Iuvelirnye i Podelochnye Kamni Zabaikal`ia

[ Gems and Semiprecious Stones of Transbaikal Area : ]
Novosibirsk: Nauka, 2001
Language: Russian

Price: $ 29.00

This is the first comprehensive review about deposits of gems in the Transbaikal Area, including the Republic of Buryatia and Chita Oblast. The monograph contains the history of gem deposit discovery, research and exploitation, description of geological conditions of localization and formation, forecast of resources of the most important kinds of raw materials, and their rational use.

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Code: 001586
Selezneva, I.A
Zolotaia i Serebrianaia Palaty
Kremlevskie Dvotsovye Masterskie XVII Veka: Organizatsiia i Formy Proizvodstva, Tvorcheskie Protsessy, Obuchenie Masterov
[ Gold and silver halls : Kremlin court workshops of the 17th century: Organization, production, design, and training ]
Moscow: Drevlekhranilishche, 2001
Language: Russian

Price: $ 27.00

In the seventeenth century Moscow was one of the largest jewelry centers of Europe. This book is about the Kremlin center of gold and silver works: its organization, production forms, design, and training.

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Code: 002181
Lopato, M.N
Iuveliry Starogo Peterburga

[ Jewellers of Old Petersburg : ]
St. Petersburg: Russkii Iuvelir, 2004
Language: Russian

Price: $ 35.00

This monograph is not a catalog but rather a short history of jewelry art in St. Petersburg, its main masters, shops and houses. It is illustrated with the best silver and other works of Russian and foreign jewelers from the Hermitage Museum.

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Code: 017775
Zabozlaeva, T.B
Dragotsennosti v Russkoi Kul`ture XVIII-XX Veka
Slovar`: Istoriia. Terminologiia. Predmetnyi Mir
[ Jewelry in Russian culture in the 18th-20th centuries : Dictionary: History. Terminology. Object world ]
St. Petersburg: Iskusstvo-SPb, 2003
Language: Russian

Price: $ 28.50

This dictionary explains terms related to the history of jewelry and its place in Russian culture. Richly illustrated.

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Code: 017758
Gilodo, Andrei
Russkoe Serebro
Vtoraia Polovina 19 - Nachalo 20 Veka
[ Russian silver: Mid 19th century - beginning of the 20th century : Vtoraia Polovina 19 - Nachalo 20 Veka ]
Moscow: Beresta, 1994
Language: Russian and English

Price: $ 42.00

This catalog-album is the opening issue of a series of albums on Russian decorative metal work. Among similar publications on Russian silver of the period, this album is the first to draw the reader`s attention to the formation of the "Russian style".

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Code: 022861-2
Kuznetsova, L.K
Peterburgskie Iuveliry XIX Veka
Dnei Aleksandrovykh Prekrasnoe Nachalo
[ St. Petersburg jewelers of the 19th century: In the days of Aleksandr`s beautiful beginning : Dnei Aleksandrovykh Prekrasnoe Nachalo ]
Moscow: Tsentrpoligraf, 2012
Language: Russian

Price: $ 35.00

This book is about the formation of the Russian national school of jewelers on the threshold of the 18th-19th centuries. In addition to stories about the Russian court jewelers this monograph describes their relations with the European courts after the fall of Bonaparte, about the foreign awards received by Aleksandr I.

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Code: 028926
Zuev, G.I
Imperiia Faberzhe: Istoriia Osnovaniia, Razvitiia i Unichtozheniia Firmy Karla Faberzhe

[ The empire of Faberge : History of the foundation, development and destruction of the firm of Carl Faberge ]
Moscow: Giol`, 2011
Language: Russian

Price: $ 27.00

Gustav Faberge started his gold and silver work business in St. Petersburg in 1848, and then expanded it to several of the largest cities of Russia. His son Karl Faberge (1846-1920) became the most successful Russian jewelry maker in Russia.

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Code: 004244
Makarova, T.I
Drevnerusskoe Nasledie v Iuvelirnom Dele Rannei Moskvy: XIV Vek
Oblachenie Mitropolita Alekseia
[ The Old Russian legacy in the jewelry of Muscovy: The 14th century : The Robes of Metropolitan Aleksei ]
Moscow: Nauka, 1998
Language: Russian

Price: $ 13.50

This is the first comprehensive publication about a key artistic monument of Muscovy: the robes of Metropolitan Aleksei. The decor and symbolism of these robes is based on a more than three hundred year tradition of Russian jewelry and Church regalia.

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Code: 026535
Сост. А.Н. Горстка; Н.В. Чванова
Sokrovishcha Drevnego Uglicha XV-XX Vekov
Dekorativno-Prikladnoe Iskusstvo Muzeinogo Sobraniia
[ Treasures of ancient town of Uglich : The museum collection decorative applied arts ]
Moscow: Grand-Kholding, 2009
Language: Russian

Price: $ 49.00

This book investigates the medieval town of Uglich on the bank of the Volga River and the contribution of the East Slavonic tribes to its culture. The town absorbed all the diversity of epochs that left their traces in the noblest monuments of art, in icon painting, and treasures of decorative and applied arts.

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