Sunday, January 9, 2011

Little Dancer. Confession of Russian Emigrant by Alexandre Vassiliev


In 2010 in Moscow, was published a book of memories 95-year old Parisian ballerina Kseniya Tripolitova by Al'pina publishing house. It's called "Little Dancer. Confession of Russian Emigrant" and is timed to 100 anniversary of Russian seasons. The entire text of a book written by Alexandre Vassiliev.

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Christmas Recipes from Yulia Vysotskaya


This collection of recipes from the TV program "Eat at Home!" devoted to the New Year. "Festive meal should be a surprise and at the same time not too tedious to prepare, because what is this holiday, if we spend all the forces at the stove?" - said Yulia Vysotskaya and offers recipes that she prepares for the New Year.

Floral Cross: A Novel-Fiction by Elena Kolyadina

"Flower Cross" became the main intrigue of the premium "Russian Booker" .

Story of a young woman, burned in Totma in 1672 for "witchcraft" - a historical fact, he then formed the basis of the novel, everything else is "fiction, fantastic story", entangled around the principal characters of the novel: the girl Feodosiya, she also later blessed, stupid (durka), a young priest, Father Loggin and buffoon Istoma ...

Syndrome of Punch by Dina Rubina


The novel tells the story of the dolls, and allows you to immerse yourself in the mystery puppeteer... And this has its own mystery, its genius, an incredible artist who has been born thanks to incredible mixture of tribal blood. In general, the question of genius (sometimes bordering on the incredible way Degeneration) - one of the basic work of Dina Rubina (sounding another early novel, "On the sunny side of the street").

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Russian Art Porcelain XVIII - the first third of XX century in the collection of Rybinsk Museum-Preserve


The purpose of publishing - to acquaint readers with the best of Russian and Soviet Porcelain from the Collection of Rybinsk Museum-Reserve, which was selected by a small group of products XVIII-XX centuries. which illustrates the major periods in the history of domestic porcelain production.

Many articles are published for the first time the collection.

Apostles Peter and Paul: Life In The Icon. Album.

The publication is dedicated Apostles Peter and Paul - the most important preachers of the Divine Word. Their acts and martyrdom is considered an example of temple icons of mid-XVI century, originating from the Church of the Apostles Peter and Paul in Kozhevniki in Veliky Novgorod.

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Beauty in Exile and Russian Fashion: 150 Years in Photographs by A. Vassiliev


Alexandre Vassiliev is an internationally acclaimed French costume and set designer as well as being a fashion historian. He was born in Moscow in 1958 into a celebrated family of artists. His late father designed for the Bolshoi Theatre, his mother was an actress.

First let me introduce Russian book by A. Vassiliev "Beauty in Exile". The book is intended for anyone interested in history, art, fashion.

"Beauty in Exile" - a journey in time, which invites the reader a well-known fashion historian and collector Alexander Vassiliev. The author tells fascinating stories about the world of Western fashion and the role played in it our compatriots, for various reasons have left Russia. It is difficult to recover the past: lost documents, leaving the living witnesses, the forgotten language of the time. However, in the book Alexander Vassilievmagically transferred to the seemingly elusive atmosphere of bygone decades.