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Sytin House was built in Moscow in 1803 by Brigadier Andrei Sytin to be his city residence. Built from wood but disguised to look like stone, a peculiarity of the Russian building tradition, it was a typical house for a member of the gentry class, built according to standardised designs and decorated with classical motifs. The otherwise modest house has a portico with four columns and a pediment, all from wood. The Sytin family moved in just a...

The second volume on architecture in the latest of Fontanka/Ginzburg Design re-publications of seminal works on Soviet architecture in English. Barkhin's Architecture of the Theatre is a fascinating survey of the theatre from a Soviet perspective

A fresh and original take on a classic Russian tale, featuring an updated rhyming text and new illustrations

Mikhail Dedinkin is Deputy Head of the Department of Western-European Art and Curator of 19th- and 20th-Century Drawings at the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. Michael Estorick is a novelist and Chairman of the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art in London. His parents, Eric and Salome Estorick, were Ert¿ great friends and agents. Morgan Falconer is a New York-based journalist and critic. Brian Sewell (1931¿2015) was a renowned art cr...

A dramatic account of a year of two revolutions in Russia, it draws on extracts from contemporary diaries, letters and memoirs.

Chronos and Cosmos is a major exhibition by internationally-renowned British artist Marc Quinn at The State Hermitage Museum, bringing together 70 works from 1988 to today, including several never-before-seen series

A new structure within the context of the Venice Biennale's theme 'How will we live together?', The Majlis brings together an international array of individuals, cultural influences and artisanal skills

Moisei Ginzburg (1892-1946) was an architect, theorist, teacher, and a leader of the Constructivist group in Soviet avant-garde architecture. His magnum opus, Style and Epoch (1924), was essentially a manifesto of Constructivism as the architectural style of the new Soviet era.

Moisei Ginzburg was an architect, theorist, teacher and a leader of the Constructivist group in Soviet avant-garde architecture. His magnum opus, Style and Epoch (1924), emphasized the civilizing role of the machine and its capacity to rationalize new building types consistent with the needs of the working class. Asserting that the revolution had engendered a new constructive phase of architectural development, Ginzburg¿s treatise was essentia...

A collection of charming folk tales and rhymes illustrated by Russian artist Elena Polenova, and designed by Christoph Stolberg Russian folk tales have a timeless, slightly unworldly quality that children, and those who read to them, find particularly appealing. This is Fontanka's second book of folk tales with illustrations by the artist Elena Polenova, with stories that are possibly even more beguiling than those in Why the Bear. The same te...

Moisei Ginzburg was an architect, theorist, teacher, and a leader of the Constructivist group in Soviet avant-garde architecture. In addition to the Narkomfin apartment complex (1928�30, with Ivan F. Milinis), his most accomplished buildings include the Kazakh Republic Government House in Almaty (1927�31) and his design (with Solomon A. Lisagor and Gustav Hassenpflug) for the third stage of the Palace of Soviets competition in 1932.

Presents more than twenty of the artists paintings, the majority coming from the extraordinary collection assembled by Bacons patrons, Robert and Lisa Sainsbury, over the course of the artists lifetime and now in the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich.

Features war shortages.

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The book is made up of 10 classical sculptures from the Hermitage Museum (mostly Roman and one or two Greek), removed from their plinths and repositioned to share a raised floor with the viewer, and 17 highly abstracted body-forms by Antony Gormley. The idea is to juxtapose ancient, idealized statues with Gormley's more disinterested sculptures and see whether, in Gormley's work, the abstract language of Euclidean geometry can make a shelter f...

An album of 100 watercolours and drawings of Capability Brown's designs for Hampton Court Palace gardens which have never previously been seen.

The artist Alexander Voitsekhovsky creates a unique world of people and situations that charm and amuse in equal measure. His wonderful pictures speak for themselves.

Tells the story of Soviet and western relations during the Cold War, as told through cartoons and propaganda art. This title includes seventy-five Soviet cartoons that reveal the extraordinary obsessions and ferocious propaganda campaigns of the period.

First detailed account of how so much of Empress Josephine's collection came to be at the Hermitage Museum.