Imperial Splendour: The Palaces and Monasteries of Old Russia - Hardcover

Galitzine, Prince George

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670841439 ISBN 13: 9780670841431

Publisher: Studio, 1992

Synopsis

Photographs depict sites in St. Petersburg and other Russian cities

About this title

From Library Journal:

This volume is exactly what it purports to be--a picture book, enhanced by numerous gatefolds that offer, inter alia, wide-angled views of the ancient kremlins with their churches and monasteries laid out along the placid rivers of Russia. One dramatic photograph after another highlights the characteristic golden onion domes of cathedrals glistening against a brooding sky. Also featured are the magnificent palaces with their parks and landscaped gardens built by various monarchs around Moscow and St. Petersburg, many of which have been restored since World War II. Galitzine, a historian and descendant of Catherine the Great, leads this tour of the ancient cities of Novgorod, Pskov, and the Golden Ring, an historic region to the northeast of Moscow. A brief but informative text introduces each region. Recommended for most collections as a distinctive overview of the subject.
- Edward B. Cone, New York
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Studio
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0670841439
• ISBN 13: 9780670841431
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128