Petersburg) and the Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), and relatively new museums such as Garage Museum of Contemporary Art and Rosphoto. Among sources of books are the two largest collections of Russian art in the world, the State Russian Museum (St.

Bronze Horseman also carries the publications of less well-known museums whose collections are significant but often inaccessible.īronze Horseman brings to libraries, scholars, and collectors in the West current books on Russian visual culture that publish new research, rarely seen works, and exhibitions generating fresh interpretations. In some areas its collections are preeminent cataloguing the works with revised attributions, dating, provenance, bibliography and high-quality illustrations is an event in museology. Powell-Jones Robert Powell-Jones 19541998, Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin: The bronze horseman introduced and translated by Robert Powell-Jones, with a foreword by John Bayley. The Hermitage, for example, recently began publishing its complete collection catalogues for the first time in fifty years. Tatiana Metanova, nearly seventeen, meets the handsome and mysterious Red. The book begins on 22 June 1941, the day that Germany invaded the Soviet Union in the Second World War after Operation Barbarossa. In the post-Soviet period book production possibilities throughout Europe opened up to Russian publishers and museums, which raised production standards at Russian presses with the result that current and recent books publish high-quality illustrations of many works from Russian collections for the first time.īronze Horseman specializes in the exhibition and collection catalogues of these museums. The Bronze Horseman is a romance novel written by Paullina Simons and the first book in the Bronze Horseman Trilogy.

The collections of Western European art, Ancient art, Islamic art, and Asian art at these museums are comparable to those of the greatest Western European and American museums. Petersburg, the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, and the palace museums of Petergof, Tsarskoe Selo, and Pavlovsk. The sources of books imported by Bronze Horseman are such renowned collections of world art as the Hermitage in St.

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