The Russian Museum

This booklet accompanied the bicentenary exhibition of the works of Vasily Sadovnikov, presenting the art of this outstanding nineteenth-century master to the general public for the first time. The publication includes an article on the artist's life and work and a catalogue of his most important paintings. The majority of watercolours are reproduced here for the first time.

This booklet is devoted to one of the various from of Russian folk art - Krestetsky stitching. It traces the history of an entire handicraft based on the picturesque Valdai and Krestetsky districts, the long and painstaking accumulation of the technical devices of its lace embroidery, the establishment of the ornamental traditions, and the various masters who created these minor masterpieces.

This publication is devoted to the Italian artists who lived and worked in Russia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Their oeuvres are now an indelible part of Russian artistic culture.