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Transactions of the State Hermitage
Museum. XLIX. The Origins of Russian
Statehood in the Context of the Early Mediaeval
History of the Old World. Proceedings of
the International Conference Held at the State
Hermitage Museum. 14 to 18 May, 2007.
The State Hermitage. St. Petersburg: The State
Hermitage Publishers, 2010. – 656 pp., ills.
The volume, containing papers of a conference
under the same title, is devoted to the
key problem in the history of the Russian Empire,
viz. the origin of Russian statehood and
the formation of the ethnos. To this end, the
Slavic ethnic basis has been discussed, as well
as the role in the process of Scandinavians
and the contacts with Byzantium, the Frankish
Empire, Khazar Kaganate, Volga Bulgaria and
Arab Caliphate. The various points of view on
the problems in question, in combination, give
a more precise idea of the initial period of the
history of Rus’/Russia.
Transactions of the State Hermitage
Museum. L. Museums of the World in
the 21st Century. Restoration, Reconstruction,
Renovation. Proceeding of the International
Conference 20–22 October 2008.
Ed. by A. Trofimova. The State Hermitage.
St. Petersburg: The State Hermitage Publishers,
2010. – 190 pp., ills.
The papers of the conference that took place
in the State Hermitage Museum are devoted
to one of the most important themes of museology
in the late 20th – early 21st centuries,
i.e. reconstruction of museum space, museum
expanding, restoration and re-exposition. The
participants of the conference were representatives
of such major museums as the Metropolitan,
Villa Ghetty, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin,
Museum of the History of Arts (Vienna),
Glyptotheke (Munich), Museum of Modern
Art (New York), New Museum of the Acropolis
(Athens), Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam), Museum
of Arts (Philadelphia), Museums of the
Moscow Kremlin, Pushkin State Museum of
Fine Arts (Moscow), State Historical Museum
(Moscow) and State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg).
Each museum was represented by a
group of experts who presented new projects,
concepts and programmes. The State Hermitage
presented the project of the restoration of
the General Staff building, the Hermitage-2014
master plan (with the Rem Koolhaas Studio)
and re-exposition programme of Classical Antiquity
rooms.
Transactions of the State Hermitage
Museum. LI. Byzantium within the Context
of World Culture. Proceedings of the
Conference Dedicated to the Memory of Alisa
Vladimirovna Bank (1906–1984). The State
Hermitage. St. Petersburg: The State Hermitage
Publishers, 2010. – 638 pp., ills.
The volume prepared by the Oriental Department
of the Hermitage is based on the materials
of the mediaevalist conference held at the
Hermitage in 2008. It includes six sections:
Byzantine Painting, Applied Arts, Numismatics,
Sphragistics, Palaeography, Byzantine Archaeology,
Byzantium and Adjacent Countries and
Problems of the History of Byzantine Culture.
Transactions of the State Hermitage
Museum. LII. Personalities from Peter
the Great`s Time – 2010. To Mark the
300th Anniversary of Menshikov Palace
(1710–2010). Conference Proceedings.
The State Hermitage. St. Petersburg: The State
Hermitage Publishers, 2010. – 360 pp., ills.
The materials of the annual conference are
devoted to various aspects of the history of Peter
the Great’s time and the biographies of the
contemporaries of the Tsar’s reforms, in particular,
of his outstanding associate Alexander
Menshikov; several papers deal with the latter’s
palace and the museum displays located in it.
The articles are based on the study of works
of art and archival materials, some of them referred
to for the first time.
Transactions of the State Hermitage
Museum. LIII. Architecture of Byzantium and
Kievan Rus from the 9th to the 12th Centuries.
Materials of the International Seminar.
November 17–21, 2009. The State Hermitage.
St. Petersburg: The State Hermitage Publishers,
2010. – 498 pp., ills.
Materials of the seminar devoted to the Middle
Byzantine monumental architecture in the Byzantine
world.
Transactions of the State Hermitage
Museum. LIV. Boristhenos–Berezan.
Archaeological Collection of the State
Hermitage. Vol. 2. Ed. by Sergei Solovyov.
The State Hermitage. St. Petersburg: The State
Hermitage Publishers, 2010. – 322 pp., ills.
The edition continues publication of the materials
of the Berezan archaeological collection
of the State Hermitage. In the present
volume, leading experts in Classical Antiquity
describe and analyze the production of pottery
workshops of Corinth, Athens and Klasomenos
brought to Berezan in the 4th – 3rd centuries
B.C.
monographS
Androsov, Sergei. Sculptors and Russian
Collectors in Rome in the Second Half
of the 18th Century. St. Petersburg: Dmitry
Bulanin, 2010. – 258 pp., ills.
The monograph is concerned with the connection
between the thriving of Neoclassical
sculpture in Rome in the second half of the
18th century and that of Russian collecting,
when travellers and art lovers visited Rome,
attracted by the art of Classical Antiquity.
The problem has never been dealt with systematically.
Korshunova, Militsa. Collection of Russian
Architectural Drawings in the Trinity College.
Dublin. St. Petersburg: Alpharet, 2010.
The monograph presents descriptions, in Russian
and English, of Russian architectural drawings
of the late 1740s, discovered by Edward
McParland in the library of the Trinity College,
Dublin. The majority of these are record drawings,
but some are original authentic ones, e.g.
the plan of the St. Alexander Nevsky Monastery
by Theodor Schwertfeger.
Kosolapov, Alexander. Scientific Methods
in the Examination of Works of Art. The State
Hermitage. St. Petersburg: The State Hermitage
Publishers, 2010. – 170 pp., ills.
The textbook is based on a lecture course at
the Department of Museology and Protection
of Cultural Heritage, Faculty of Philosophy,
St. Petersburg State University. Problems of
stylistic or artistic and historical examination
are not dealt with specifically in the course.
The textbook includes descriptions of the major
scientific examination methods used in the
laboratories of the museums of Russia, Western
Europe and North America.
Matveyev, Vladimir. Mechanical Arts and
the Imperial Academy of Arts. Dedicated
to 250 Years of the Russian Academy of Arts
and the State Hermitage. Moscow: The Ruda
i Metally Publishers, 2010. – 280 pp., ills.
The book is devoted to one of some lesser
known aspects in the history of the Imperial
Academy of Arts, connected with the eighteenth-century
classes of “mathematic instruments
and watchmaking”.
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