Buy this book on-line FORBES, ISABELLA & UNDERHILL, WILLIAM - Edited by; Editorial co-ordinator and translator,SUTCLIFFE,M: : CATHERINE the GREAT: TREASURES OF IMPERIAL RUSSIA FROM THE STATE HERMITAGE MUSEUM,LENINGRAD.LONDON.BOOTH-CLIBBORN EDITIONS INC,1990. ISBN 0904866920.
UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no clip to dw/d,lack of publisher's price.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated,colour illustrated upper wrap (Portrait of Catherine II - Giovanni Battista Lampi,1794 - oil on canvas); with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - virtually as new.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly an unread copy? Sharp-cornered,bright and clean, publisher's original,plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate colour panoramic,scenic illustrated endpapers.UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn, vii-xviiipp+3-206pp [paginated] includes intros by Dr Vitaly A. Suslov (Director General of the State Hermitage Museum) and Dr G.N. Komelova,a genealogical table of the Russian Monarchy (1645-1825),2 maps (Russian Asian Empire - 1796 & Russian European Empire - 1800),a chronology,13 chapters,profuse colour illus/portraits/plates etc.,throughout the text and the book,lists of Artists,bibliography+ further reading,State Hermitage Museum Inventory numbers,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,contents list/table and colour photographic frntis.
Catherine the Great towers over more than three decades of the 18thC Russian history,stamping her personality on what is often regarded as Russia's Golden Age. Her reign saw the transformation of a backward and unstable empire into a major European power,with a court and a capital city whose opulence dazzled contemporary travellers.For many Catherine was a model of the enlightened monarch,a lavish patron of the arts and sciences,whose reforming zeal left no aspect of Russian life untouched.
Painting,architecture,jewellery and sculpture reached new heights of sophistication as Russian and foreign artists flocked to the court.
Perhaps the finest memorial to the splendour of her era is the State Hermitage Museum in Leningrad,the collection founded by Catherine herself in a magnificent palace besides the Neva.This book,showing many of the Hermitage's finest treasures,captures the spirit of Catherine's court,her lovers and her entourage.
It also brings to life the work of the artists,explorers,writers,scientists,and soldiers who served Catherine.Above all,it illuminates the character of an empress dedicated to power,pleasure and the glory of Russia.
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