Main entry:

Rodimt︠s︡eva, I. A. (Irina Aleksandrovna), author.

Title & Author:

The Kremlin and its treasures / Irina Rodimzeva, Nicolai Rahmanov, Alfons Raimann.

Publication:

New York : Rizzoli, [1987]
©1986.

Description:

356 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 33 cm

Notes:
Translation of: Der Kreml und seine Kunstschätze.
Illustrations on lining-papers.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-356) and index.
Foreword -- On the history of the Kremlin. The unknown past ; The first mention of Moscow ; The first Moscow Kremlin ; Whitestone Moscow ; Ivan III's Kremlin ; The center of the tsarist realm ; The glory and distress of the Moscow Kremlin in the 18th and 19th centuries ; The Kremlin after the October Revolution of 1917 -- On Cathedral Square. The Cathedral of the Assumption (Uspenskii Sobor) ; The Cathedral of the Annunciation (Blagoveshchenskii Sobor) ; The Church of the Repository of the Robe of Mary (Tserkov Rizpoloshenye) ; The Cathedral of the Archangel Michael (Arkhangelskii Sobor) ; The belfry of Ivan the Great -- Palaces and residences. The Grand Kremlin Palace ; Older residences in the Grand Kremlin Palace (The Palace of Facets and the Holy Vestibule ; The Golden Tsarita Chamber ; Terem Palace) ; Older churches in the Grand Kremlin Palace (The Churches of the Raising of Lazarus and the Birth of Mary ; St. Catherine's Church ; The Upper Cathedral of the Savior ; The Church of the Resurrection ; The Church of the Crucifixion) ; 19th- and 20th-century sections of the Grand Kremlin Palace (St. Vladimir Hall ; St. George Hall ; The State Parade Chambers ; The private apartments, private chambers of the tsar's family ; The chamber of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR) ; Restorations in the Grand Kremlin Palace ; The Amusement Palace ; The Patriarchal Palace and the Church of the Twelve Apostles ; The Senate building ; The building of the presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (government building) ; The palace of Congress ; The Arsenal -- The Armory. History of the Armory ; Armor and weapons ; Russian goldsmithery and silversmithery ; Gifts of silver from foreign envoys ; Robes and fabrics ; Regalia and court carriages ; The diamond fund of the USSR -- Appendices. Lists of artists ; Suggested reading.

Summary:

"The Kremlin houses the largest Soviet museum as well as the seat of government, and with glasnost comes this singular volume produced by the U.S.S.R. that reveals a panoply of artistic masterpieces from a period spanning 15 centuries. Superior color photographs capture icons and frescoes, gold and silver smithery, armor and weapons, carriages, crowns, coronation robes and thrones, and church vestments. Featured as well are the architectural splendors of the Kremlin complex itself, which has undergone many renovations throughout its history, with fortress-castle towers, drawbridges, bulbous gilt domes and the exquisite interiors of the former cathedrals and palaces. The volume pictures Lenin's office and private apartment and extols the "Kremlin period" of his life (1918-22), which "is characterized by the extremely important decisions he had to make as well as by the hard work he did." Downplayed is the post-Revolution seizure of privately owned artwork as public property."--Amazon.

ISBN:

0847808564
9780847808564

Subject:

Art, Russian Russia (Federation) Moscow.
Art Russia (Federation) Moscow.
Art russe Russie Moscou.
Art Russie Moscou.
Art.
Art, Russian.
Kremlin (Moscow, Russia)
Kremlin (Moscou, Russie)
Russia (Federation) Moscow.
Russia (Federation) Moscow Kremlin.

Added entries:

Rakhmanov, Nikolaĭ, illustrator.
Raimann, Alfons, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 33881
Call No.: IDX; ID:88-B538
Status: Available