The Winter Palace Saint Petersburg

Author : Militsa Filipovna Korshunova
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782909838137
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Winter Palace, Saint Petersburg written by Militsa Filipovna Korshunova and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tsar Nicholas I commissioned 128 delightful watercolors depicting views and interiors of the private and state apartments of the Winter Palace, the main imperial residence of Saint Petersburg. These watercolors together make up one of the jewels of the collections of the Hermitage Museum. Of immense documentary value, they are also - with their crystalline clarity and their irresistible elegance - dazzling examples of the graphic art of the nineteenth century. Immortalizing as they do the splendor of the first palace of the Russian sovereigns, they are of immeasurably greater interest than other works of decorative art of this type. In a technical tour de force, these artists contrived to depict space in such a way that their paintings present a broader perspective than could normally be taken in by the naked eye.

Author : Susan McCaffray
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1609092473
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Winter Palace and the People written by Susan McCaffray and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St. Petersburg's Winter Palace was once the supreme architectural symbol of Russia's autocratic government. Over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it became the architectural symbol of St. Petersburg itself. The story of the palace illuminates the changing relationship between monarchs and their capital city during the last century and a half of Russian monarchy. In The Winter Palace and the People, Susan McCaffray examines interactions among those who helped to stage the ceremonial drama of monarchy, those who consumed the spectacle, and the monarchs themselves. In the face of a changing social landscape in their rapidly growing nineteenth-century capital, Russian monarchs reoriented their display of imperial and national representation away from courtiers and toward the urban public. When attacked at mid-century, monarchs retreated from the palace. As they receded, the public claimed the square and the artistic treasures in the Imperial Hermitage before claiming the palace itself. By 1917, the Winter Palace had come to be the essential stage for representing not just monarchy, but the civic life of the empire-nation. What was cataclysmic for the monarchy presented to those who staffed the palace and Hermitage not a disaster, but a new mission, as a public space created jointly by monarch and city passed from the one to the other. This insightful study will appeal to scholars of Russia and general readers interested in Russian history.

Author : Tatyana Sonina
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9785912084133
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grand and Private Rooms of the Winter Palace written by Tatyana Sonina and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning volume presenting the history of the Winter Palace. The Winter Palace is connected with the life of Russia and Saint Petersburg for more than 250 years. Externally the Palace has remained true to the original design, however its interior has been updated numerous times for the royal family members'needs, status, and artistic tastes. These changes are reflected in splendid illustrations, primarily from the State Hermitage collection. This richly illustrated book will let you both walk along the halls of bygone epochs and become acquainted with the Palace's modern life and it's magnificent art collection

Author : Eva Stachniak
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446487245
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Winter Palace written by Eva Stachniak and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Vavara, a young Polish orphan, arrives at the glittering, dangerous court of the Empress Elizabeth in St Petersburg, she is schooled in skills ranging from lock-picking to love-making, learning above all else to stay silent - and listen. Then Sophie, a vulnerable young princess, arrives from Prussia as a prospective bride for the Empress's heir. Set to spy on her, Vavara soon becomes her friend and confidante, and helps her navigate the illicit liaisons and the treacherous shifting allegiances of the court. But Sophie's destiny is to become the notorious Catherine the Great. Are her ambitions more lofty and far-reaching than anyone suspected, and will she stop at nothing to achieve absolute power?

Author : Susan Purves McCaffray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780875807928
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Winter Palace and the People written by Susan Purves McCaffray and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St. Petersburg's Winter Palace was once the supreme architectural symbol of Russia's autocratic government. Over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it became the architectural symbol of St. Petersburg itself. The story of the palace illuminates the changing relationship between monarchs and their capital city during the last century and a half of Russian monarchy. In The Winter Palace and the People, Susan McCaffray examines interactions among those who helped to stage the ceremonial drama of monarchy, those who consumed the spectacle, and the monarchs themselves. In the face of a changing social landscape in their rapidly growing nineteenth-century capital, Russian monarchs reoriented their display of imperial and national representation away from courtiers and toward the urban public. When attacked at mid-century, monarchs retreated from the palace. As they receded, the public claimed the square and the artistic treasures in the Imperial Hermitage before claiming the palace itself. By 1917, the Winter Palace had come to be the essential stage for representing not just monarchy, but the civic life of the empire-nation. What was cataclysmic for the monarchy presented to those who staffed the palace and Hermitage not a disaster, but a new mission, as a public space created jointly by monarch and city passed from the one to the other. This insightful study will appeal to scholars of Russia and general readers interested in Russian history.

Author : Thomas Raikes
Publisher : London, Richard Bentley
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Visit to St. Petersburg, in the Winter of 1829-30 written by Thomas Raikes and published by London, Richard Bentley. This book was released on 1838 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Hepworth Dixon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Free Russia written by William Hepworth Dixon and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward Crankshaw
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9780306809408
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shadow Of The Winter Palace written by Edward Crankshaw and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2000-04-07 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exactly 175 years ago, on the Senate Square in St. Petersburg, a failed uprising ignited a process that would, one red October, finally sweep the autocracy away. The Shadow of the Winter Palace recounts an extraordinary century of Russian history, a politically tempestuous time that was also a Golden Age of intellectual and artistic achievement—the century of Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, of Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky. A master stylist and a distinguished historian, Edward Crankshaw limns dazzling portraits of the czars, the revolutionaries, and a host of other unforgettable characters—and provides a riveting, sweeping history "jam-packed with information about the past and implications for the present"(Atlantic Monthly).

Author : Jeremy Howard
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781426200502
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book St. Petersburg written by Jeremy Howard and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These information-packed guides offer savvy advice and the in-depth information that sophisticated travelers demand. Each guide features: Detailed background and site descriptions; mapped walking and driving tours; full-service sidebars with fascinating vignettes on history, culture, and contemporary life; a 60-page directory of visitor information, including notable hotels and restaurants, entertainment, and shopping; and foldout end flaps, printed with maps and quick reference information, that serve as handy bookmarks.

Author : Thomas Raikes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The City of the Czar written by Thomas Raikes and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: