Description: NEW book: The Bronze Horseman: Falconet's Monument to Peter the Great This is a comprehensive treatment of the most consequential work of art ever to be executed in Russia - the equestrian monument to Peter the Great, or "The Bronze Horseman", as it has come to be known since it appeared in Alexander Pushkin's poem bearing that title. Schenker deals with the cultural setting that prepared the ground for the monument and provides life stories of those who were involved in its creation: the sculptors Etienne-Maurice Falconet and Marie-Anne Collot, the engineer Marin Carburi, the diplomat Dmitry Golitsyn and Catherine's "commissar" for culture, Ivan Betskoi. He also touches upon the extraordinary resonance of the monument in Russian culture, which, since the unveiling in 1782, has become the icon of St. Petersburg and has alimented the so-called "St. Petersburg theme" in Russian letters, familiar from the works of such writers as Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Gogol and Bely.
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Number of Pages: 416 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Bronze Horseman : Falconet's Monument to Peter the Great
Publisher: Yale University Press
Subject: Royalty, Museums, Tours, Points of Interest, General
Item Height: 2.8 in
Publication Year: 2003
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 25 Oz
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Alexander M. Schenker
Subject Area: Travel, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
