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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Rodimt︠s︡eva, Irina Aleksandrovna. Kremlin and its treasures. New York : Rizzoli, 1987 (OCoLC)572717168 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Irina Aleksandrovna Rodimt︠s︡eva; Nikolaĭ Nikolaevich Rakhmanov; Alfons Raimann |
| ISBN: | 0847808564 : 9780847808564 |
| OCLC Number: | 15791301 |
| Notes: | Translation of: Der Kreml und seine Kunstschätze. |
| Description: | 356 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 33 cm. |
| Contents: | On the history of the Kremlin -- On Cathedral Square -- Palaces and residences -- The Armory -- Appendices. |
| Other Titles: | Kreml und seine Kunstschätze. |
| Responsibility: | Irina Rodimzeva, Nicolai Rahmanov, Alfons Raimann. |
Abstract:
"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.
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