[PDF] Moscow St Petersburg eBook

Author : John E. Bowlt
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,39 MB
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780865653788

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"First published in hardcover by The Vendome Press in 2008"--Copyright page.

Author : Natalia Smirnova
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 30,12 MB
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1936070812

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“Authors whose dark take on humanity would be familiar to the likes of Cornell Woolrich and Jim Thompson. Story after story offers haunting images.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review The more you watch Moscow, the more it looks like a huge chameleon that keeps changing its face—and it isn’t always pretty. Following Akashic Books’ international success with London Noir, Delhi Noir, Paris Noir, and others, the Noir series explores this fabled and troubled city’s darkest recesses. Moscow Noir features stories by: Alexander Anuchkin, Igor Zotov, Gleb Shulpyakov, Vladimir Tuchkov, Anna Starobinets, Vyacheslav Kuritsyn, Sergei Samsonov, Alexei Evdokimov, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, Maxim Maximov, Irina Denezhkina, Dmitry Kosyrev, Andrei Khusnutdinov, and Sergei Kuznetsov. “Sordid crimes, gangsters and other underworld characters, sometimes supernatural themes, and a hefty body count . . . The best stories in the collection have some reverberations of a hoary past on the everyday life of a neighborhood . . . It is hard to over-emphasize the power of the locations described in some of these stories.” —MostlyFiction Book Reviews “This anthology is an attempt to turn the tourist Moscow of gingerbread and woodcuts, of glitz and big money, inside out.” —Bookslut “I am particularly struck by how it is the shortest stories here that seem the most fresh, bold and interesting. There we see often impressionistic touches in the prose or plotting and some really impressive exploration of theme. In particular, I would recommend ‘In the New Development’ and ‘The Point of No Return’ as highlights.” —Mysteries Ahoy!

Author : Museum Kunst Palast (Düsseldorf, Germany)
Publisher : Royal Academy Books
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 36,92 MB
Release : 2008-06
Category : Art
ISBN :

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The rich tradition of French painting was an important influence on Russian art from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1920s, a period that saw the rise of many of the most important movements in modern art. A magnificent visual record of an unprecedented event, this book, the catalogue of an ambitious exhibition of master paintings from the four greatest museums of Russia, examines the interaction of these two great cultures. Drawing on the collections of the State Russian Museum and the Pushkin Museum in Moscow and the Tretyakov Gallery and the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, the book presents outstanding examples of Salon painting, Impressionism, Fauvism, and Cubism in France, and related movements in Russia, among them The Wanderers, Constructivism, and Suprematism. Paintings by Renoir, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Matisse are reproduced, along with works by Kandinsky, Tatlin, and Malevich. Key episodes in the story of this fascinating exchange include the vital role played by the great Russian collectors Ivan Morosov and Sergei Shchukin, whose preeminent collections of French art were an inspiration to the Russian avant-garde; the ballet impresario Sergei Diaghilev's promotion of Russian art in France in 1906; and Henri Matisse's visit to Russia in 1911.

Author : Masha Nordbye
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 23,89 MB
Release : 2003-05-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9789622177093

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Provides the history and travel information for Moscow, St. Petersburg, and the Golden Ring in Russia, and includes transportation and restaurant guides, as well as basic Russian vocabulary.

Author : Arthur L. George
Publisher :
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 28,31 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN :

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St. Petersburg covers the city's political and social history, as well as its infinite contributions to scholarship, culture, and world politics.

Author : Michel (Prince of Greece)
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 29,13 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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His swift banishment to the far reaches of the vast Russian empire changes his life forever; he'll never have a home again and is moved about the realm like a pawn to prevent his tarnishing of the family name."--Jacket.