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Since 1989 Panorama of Russia has specialized in academic and reference publications from the Russian Federation and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Konstantin Vasil`evich Mochul`skii (1892-1948) was a philosopher and literary critic. This book consists three of his works, all biographies: "The Spiritual way of Gogol", "Vl. Solov`ev. Life and teachings", "Dostoevskii.
The author concentrates on the brief visits of F. Dostoevskii to the city of Kuznetsk and his relationship with M. Isaeva -- a woman who played a very significant role in Dostoevskii’s life at that time.
Code: 009122 Davydov, Z.; Kupchenko, V Krym Maksimiliana Voloshina Fotoal`bom [ The Crimea of Maksimilian Voloshin : Photoalbum ] Kyiv: Mistetstvo, 1994 Language: Russian and English
Price: $ 45.00
Maksimilian Voloshin (1877-1932) was a poet and artist, who spent most of his life in the small town of Koktebel in the Crimea. M. Voloshin established a writers` community with his own house in this place as the base.
Grigorii Potanin (1835-1920), a Siberian scholar and political activist, spent two years in exile in Siberia. During these years he started a documentary novel about the people of Siberia, gold miners, hunters, prisoners, citizens of the two big cities Tomsk and Omsk, that has never been finished.
Contents: Ob osnovnykh tendentsiiakh biograficheskogo pis`ma v literature XX veka; Modeli pisatel`skikh biografi kak literaturnye universalii; Itog kak novye problemy: zametki o chekhovskikh biografiiakh; Mify o Chekhove, provotsiorovannye im samim, etc.
This book contains descriptions of about 2,000 original photos of the Russian writer Maxim Gor`kii, alone and with other people. They are also accompanied by memoirs and letters connected to these pictures and the period of time when they were taken.
This book is about the theatrical life in Moscow in 2000s: theater directors, artistic leaders, artists. Among them: K. Ginkas, Iu. Liubimov, P. Fomenko, S. Zhenovach, K. Raikin, Iu. Pogrebnichko, M. Zakharov, D.
Collection of articles about Russian composer and educator Aleksander Glazunov (1865-1936), one of the followers of the musical group Moguchaia Kuchka. Contents: Notnye rukopisi A.K.Glazunova (tekstologicheskie aspekty izucheniia); Muzyka A.
This volume consists of five biographical essays: E.A. Solov`ev. Karamzin; A.M. Skabichvskii. Pushkin; A.N. Annenskaia. Gogol`; V.D. Smirnov. Aksakovy; E.A. Solov`ev. Dostoevskii. Supplements include essays about the authors by Iu.
This is a collection of studies and materials about an outstanding Russian composer N.A. Rimskii-Korsakov (1844-1908). Many of the materials, including his letters to composers A.K. Liadov, A,K. Glazunov and N.
This is a course of lectures on the history of Russian music of the 19th-20th centuries. The author gives artistic portraits of the most famous Russian composers: M. Glinka, A. Dargomyzhskii, M. Musorgskii, A.
[ Meierkhol`d: Romance with Soviet power : ] Moscow: Agraf, 1999 Language: Russian
Price: $ 16.00
The author, an art historian, found new documents about the world renowned theater director Vsevolod Meierkhol`d (1874-1940) and his relations with the Bolshevik authorities. This book is about the post-revolutionary period of his life, his engagement in the Bolshevik cultural and political agenda, his works on the theater stage and his tragic end.
[ Gannibals in Russia: Essays : ] St. Petersburg: SPbGU, 1999 Language: Russian
Price: $ 15.00
This book sums up the results of a 25 year long archival research on the progeny of Abram Gannibal (1697?-1781), an Ethiopian prince, captured and educated by Peter the Great, great-grandfather of Alexander Pushkin.
[ One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Critical Companion : ] Evanson (IL): Northwestern University Press, 1997 Language: English
Price: $ 15.00
Alexis Klimoff`s companion to Alexandr Solzhenitsyn’s story includes a general introduction discussing the work in the context of Solzhenitsyn’s oeuvre, as well as its place within the Russian literary tradition.
Mikhail Sholokhov (1905-1984), Nobel prize winner, was consigned to oblivion for his cooperation with communist authorities. The author of this book found archival documents which show the writer’s confrontation with Stalin, Khrushchev, and Brezhnev.
The next volume in the series The Russian Way contains literary criticism and memoirs about one of the greatest Russian poets, Vladimir Maiakovskii (1893-1930) by: N. Aseev, D. Burliuk, K. Chukovskii, Don-Aminado, B.
One of the greatest Russian theater directors Vsevolod Meierkhol`d (1874-1940) is known also as a reformer of Russian theater, who through his own works and teaching of actors and directors significantly influenced the art of theater.
[ Pavel Tret`iakov and his gallery : ] Moscow: Art-Rodnik, 1998 Language: Russian
Price: $ 45.00
This book is about the life and collecting work of the Russian merchant Pavel Tret`iakov (1832-1898), the founder of the largest collection of Russian art now The State Tretyakov gallery. Tret`iakov`s life is closely connected to the lives of many artists of the second half of the 19th century.
[ 20th century pianists : ] St. Petersburg: Muzykal`naia Shkola imeni D.D. Shostakovicha, 1997 Language: Russian
Price: $ 16.00
This book is prefaced by a word of praise from D. Shostakovich, written for this book in 1973. It characterizes several notable pianists: Lev Oborin, Emil` Gilel`s, Sviatoslav Richter, Margarita Long, Artur Rubinshtein.
Code: 004010 Mlechina, I. V Chelovek Pered Vyborom Tvorchestvo Al`freda Andersha [ A Man faces a choice: The works of Alfred Andersch : Tvorchestvo Al`freda Andersha ] Moscow: Nasledie, 1998 Language: Russian
Price: $ 15.00
This monograph is about one of the most notable German writers of the 1950-1970s Alfred Andersch (1914-1980). The author of this monograph is a literary critic and a translator of German. She describes the post-war generation of young Germans, who in the face of the collapse of their world painfully searched for new guidelines and ways of the artistic interpretation of reality.
Code: 003686 Gritsiuk, Nikolai (Grizjuk, Nikolai) Nikolai Grizjuk Aquarelle, Gouachen, Temperamalereien [ Nikolai Gritsiuk : Aquarelle, Gouachen, Temperamalereien ] Leipzig: Insel-Verlag Anton Kippenberg, 1984 Language: German
Price: $ 39.00
Album of works by the very talented but little known Russian painter Nikolai Gritsiuk (1922-1976). 65 color ill. List of exhibitions and a chronicle of Gritsiuk`s life.
[ Argument about Bakunin and Dostoevsky: Articles : ] Moscow: Letnii sad, 2012 Language: Russian
Price: $ 29.00
The book includes the discussion between two writers L. Grossman (1888-1965) and Viach. Polonskii (1886-1932) on Bakunin and Dostoevskii with detailed comments. This is a reprint of the 1926 edition. (0.
This is a collection of papers presented on the conference about the modern Russian classic writer, actor, and film director Vasilii Shukshin (1929-1974). Bibliographic references.
This issue begins a new encyclopedia of actors of Russian cinema from its beginning to the present. Each issue includes entries from A to Z ( A to Ia). This issue features 93 biographical sketches written by historians of Russian cinema.
Code: 012559 Viktor Tsoi Fotoalbum [ Viktor Tsoi: Photoalbum : Fotoalbum ] Moscow: Vneshtorgizdat, Red Wave, [1997] Language: Russian
Price: $ 25.50
This book is devoted to the memory of the Russian poet and musician Viktor Tsoi (1962-1990). From 1980 to 1990, Viktor Tsoi and his rock-group "Kino" was one of the most popular with Russian youth. The album contains pictures of V.
This book commemorates the 100th birthday of Olga Berghol’ts (1910-1975), an outstanding Soviet poetess. She is most famous for her work on the radio during the Siege of Leningrad. The publication includes archival documents, poems of the late 1920s, the poet`s first diary (first publication), and articles.