Kremlin Gold 1000 Years of Russian Gems and Jewels

by Bartsch, Joel A.

• ISBN13: 9780810966956
• ISBN10: 0810966956
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-04-01
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Summary

An icon cover encrusted with rubies and sapphires. A miter festooned with pearls and gold. Two imperial Easter eggs from the Faberge workshop. These are just a few of the objects on view in this breathtaking book of Russian treasures.

The companion volume to a major exhibition opening at The Houston Museum of Natural Science and traveling to The Field Museum, Chicago, Kremlin Gold showcases 120 of the most spectacular objects in the Moscow-Kremlin State Armory Museum. Many of these works, considered national treasures, have never before been seen in the West, and some have never even been displayed in Russia.

Ranging from 11th-century icons to contemporary masterworks, from the buried gold of the Riazan hoard to objects created in the Kremlin's own workshops, these pieces highlight every facet and every era of Russian jewelry-making, and make this book a stunning gift for anyone interested in Russian history and culture.

Table of Contents

Directors' Forewords	6	(3)
Curator's Preface	9	(1)
Acknowledgments	10	(2)
The Moscow Kremlin and Tharmory Museum	12	(4)
Irina I. Rodimtseva
A Timeline of Russian Political History	16	(12)
Emma Krasov
The Kremlin Unearthed: Bearing Witness To Russia's past	28	(1)
N. S. Vladimirskaya
Russian Jewelry Arts of the Twelfth to the Seventeenth Centuries	29	(7)
M. V. Martynova
Russian Jewelry Art of the Eighteenth to The Twentieth Centuries	36	(5)
I. D. Kostina
Plates	41	(139)
T. D. Avdusina
I. A. Bobrovnitskaya
I. I. Vishnevskaya
I. V. Gorbatova
S. Y. Kovarskaya
I. D. Kostina
M. V. Martynova
E. A. Morshakova
T. N. Muntyan
V. M. Nikitina
L. N. Peshekhonova
E. A. Yablonskaya
N. S. Vladimirskaya
E. B. Gusarova
I. A. Sterligova
Precious Stones and Noble Metals: Historic Sources for Russian Gems and Jewels	180	(20)
Joel A. Bartsch
The Geography of Russia	200	(4)
Photo Credits	204