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Mikhail Piotrovsky
THE HERMITAGE EARTHLY AND CELESTIAL
Selected Essays
This bibliophilic publication prepared to mark the 80th birthday of Hermitage Director Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky contains selected essays that he wrote for his regular column, “The View from the Hermitage”, in the city’s oldest newspaper – the Sankt-Petersburgskie Vedomosti, accompanied by photographs taken by Yury Molodkovets printed in the extremely rare photogravure technique.
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ASPECTS OF ARMENIAN VERSE
Selected Poems
An anthology of works by twenty of the greatest Armenian poets in Armenian with Russian translations, accompanied by moving visual images created in an original technique by the book’s artist, Marina Azizyan.
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KHAN TON ARALCHYN
A Tuvan epic
A heroic epic tale of the deeds of a daring Tuvan youth invested with fantastic superhuman shamanic abilities. The writer Yevgeny Vodolazkin’s verse rendering of the translation is accompanied by mystic illustrations produced in the etching technique by the artist Dashi Namdakov.
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VASILISA THE BEAUTIFUL
A Russian Folk Fairy Tale
One of the most popular folk tales in the treasury of Russian fairy stories is about a merchant’s daughter and her trusty helper – a magical doll-amulet. Here the telling of this enchanting fable is augmented by hand-tinted lithographs, original calligraphy, insets and vignettes.
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Mikhail Chevega
PETER I. CATHERINE II
The Greats. Russian. Money
An original hand-made publication produced in a Modernist style by the creative partnership of the artist Pavel Kaplevich and the poet Mikhail Chevega. The content of the book is a surrealistic dialogue between the two “Greats” — Peter I and Catherine II — rendered visual by the artist through the prism of notaphily.
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Alexander Pushkin
THE TALE OF THE FISHERMAN AND THE GOLDEN FISH
Translation by Julian Henry Lowenfeld
An edifying fairy tale by the great Russian writer in an English translation produced specially for this edition by Julian Henry Lowenfeld, an American and Russian poet, dramatist and composer, as well as one of the best translators of Pushkin’s works. The illustrations in the book are engravings made in the dry point technique by the gifted and original artist Boris Zabirokhin.
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FLORA GEORGICA
Plantarum Iberiae centuria
Flora Georgica is a major project combining the finest traditions of applied art, science and publishing. It brings together a botanical album prepared by the publishing house and an artistically painted porcelain service produced by the Imperial (Lomonosov) Porcelain Factory. The visual basis for the project was depictions of 100 plants that grow on the territory of Georgia in the Caucasus featured in the scholarly publications of outstanding 18th-century botanists.
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Piotr Tchaikovsky
THE NUTCRACKER
A bibliophilic edition of the ballet The Nutcracker, timed to marked the 20th anniversary of the legendary production of the ballet by the artist Mikhail Chemiakin. The book contains unique artistic-historical materials — a facsimile of a handwritten score of the ballet made by Tchaikovsky himself accompanied by sketches produced by the artist for the set-design of the production.
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Sun Tzu
THE ART OF WAR
Ancient China’s first treatise on warfare. A manual written by the outstanding general Sun Tzu that contains precisely formulated principles of strategy and tactics for waging war. The book continues a series of publications devoted to Chinese military craft.
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Alexander Tvardovsky
VASILY TYORKIN
This publication, prepared for the 75th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, possesses not only artistic, but also historical value. All the items of an officer’s equipment used in making the binding for the book are authentic. The scuff marks, traces of wear and individual differences between each copy serve as a reminder of the fates of those who gave their lives for the sake of a peaceful future.
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Nikolai Gogol
THE NOSE
An absurd satirical short story by the famous Russian dramatist, superbly illustrated by the Saint Petersburg graphic artist Boris Zabirokhin.
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The Revelation of Saint John the Divine
THE APOCALYPSE
The most mysterious book of the New Testament with a narrative that has inspired numerous works of world art. The illustrations were made in the rare mezzotint graphic art technique.
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Hafiz Shirazi
FORTY POEMS
The work of the Persian poet Hafiz Shirazi is rated highly not only in the Near and Middle East, but around the whole world. In this publication, the great writer’s verses are accompanied by the works of two eminent artists: Bahman Panahi, a master of modern calligraphy from Iran, and the painter and graphic artist Rashid Dominov.
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