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The Hermitage. Day by Day16

The Sea in Art.The Hermitage17

The Hermitage Cookbook7

Birds of a feather...9

Flower Power11

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SERGEI DANIEL

RembrandtThe Return of the Prodigal Son

Pablo PicassoThe Absinthe Drinker

MIKHAIL GERMAN

EKATERINA ANDREEVA

Kazimir MalevichBlack Square

RenoirPortrait of the Actress Jeanne Samary

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Rembrandt. The Return of the Prodigal Son18

Kazimir Malevich. Black Square19

Pablo Picasso. The Absinthe Drinker20

Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Portrait of the Actress Jeanne Samary21

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THE HERMITAGECHRISTMAS BOOK

The Hermitage Christmas Book14

The Hermitage. 300 Masterpieces15

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The Hermitage State Rooms. Masterpieces30

What the Dutch Like38

The Romanov Dynasty Costumes39

Military Costume in Mediaeval Europe40

Russian National Costume41

A Museum Journey42

Alice in Wonderland43

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Indeed, a visit to a museum resembles a journey. Walking along its galleries and seeing the masterpieces of bygone ages we get acquainted with different epochs, countries, their customs and traditions. This may become even more fascinating if we take along brushes, colours and coloured pencils. We offer you the opportunity not only to colour the paintings from the Hermitage collection, but also create your own, inspired by the works of famous artists.

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I Can Read It Myself35

I Can Count It Myself36

The Hermitage Rainbow37

Journey Through the Hermitage. Queen of the Tulips32

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The Hermitage Treasures24

The Hermitage Christmas Book25

The Hermitage Cupid’s Darts26

The HermitageBirds and Flowers27

The Hermitage. Netherlandish, Flemish, Dutch Painting28

The Hermitage Cats29

The Hermitage Impressionists and Post-Impressionists23

Saint Petersburg in Watercolours of the 18th and 19th Centuries22

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The Hermitage Cookbook. Symbols. Traditions. RecipesIn an overarching tribute to the unity of art, literature, history and ethnography, The Hermitage Cookbook brings together a range of cuisines across time, nationality and class. From the peasants’ simple pottage, to a royal festival dish, the recipes are accessible, fun, and beautifully presented.

Text by Irina MamonovaDesign by Vladimir Yakovlev

320 pages with 410 colour illustrationsHardcover

ISBN 978-5-91208-326-6£ 29.99 / $ 38.95

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Birds of a feather...The symbolism surrounding the bird is unequalled by any other creature. Godlike, mysterious, benevolent or evil, they can be associated with fire, with freedom, with fragility and have been a recurrent symbol in mythology, literature and art through time. Illustrated with a beautiful collection of works from The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg and other 20th century Russian masterpieces, “Birds of a feather”, figures the place of birds in human culture. Text by Catherine Phillips,

Helena Stretsova Design by Olga Pen


4 × 6 in. / 10.5 × 14.8 cmISBN 978-5-91208-364-8

£12.99 / $ 15.95 Publication date: May 2019

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Flower PowerThis elegant gift edition pays tribute to the symbolic and allegorical language of flowers by placing “flower portraits”, manuscripts and botanical atlases alongside myths, legends and poetry from around the world. Devoted to flowers, the book is beautifully illustrated with a large collection of works from the collection of The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg.

Text by Catherine Phillips, Helena Stretsova

Design by Olga Pen 224 pages with 350 colour illustrations

Hardcover4 × 6 in. / 10.5 × 14.8 cm

ISBN 978-5-91208-363-1£12.99 / $ 15.95

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The Hermitage Christmas bookIn the Christian world the images of the Virgin and Saints as well as the scenes of the Annunciation and the Adoration have been the source of artists’ inspiration throughout many centuries. Evangelic themes are represented in the Hermitage collection by the canvases of such men of genius as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Titian, Brueghel, Rubens, Van Dyke, Rembrandt and many others. A wide variety of masterpieces allows us to illustrate the scene of Nativity not only with magnificent paintings but also with drawings, engravings, reliefs and elegant objects of applied arts. Arca and Reader’s Digest jointly present this full-colour book, with a fascinating text and elegant design which will make this edition a perfect gift and a treasured adornment to any home library.

Text by Alexey ShestakovDesign by Andrey Tomilov


8.2 × 7.8 in. / 21.5 × 20.5 cmISBN 978-5-91208-319-8

£ 29.99 / $ 32.95

Design by Emil Kan316 pages

with 310 colour illustrationsPaperback

9.44 × 8.66 in. / 24 × 22 cmISBN 978-5-91208-223-8

£ 29.99 / $ 38.95

The Hermitage 300 MasterpiecesThe book presents the collection of the State Hermitage, one of the greatest museums in the world. The aim of the authors and compilers is to give an all-embracing picture of the museum’s stocks, to show not only the world-famous gems of the collections, but also exhibits that are rarely included in publications. The sections of the book describe the evolution of genres, techniques and devices from the birth of art to the middle of the twentieth century. Works of primitive culture, the art of the Ancient World and of the East, Western European painting, graphic art and sculpture, as well as examples of Russian art, acquaint the reader with humanity’s worldwide creative heritage and the unique collection of the State Hermitage Museum.

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The Hermitage. Day by DayThis book includes 366 works of art from the State Hermitage Museum Collection, St Petersburg, Russia. It serves as an album and as a perpetual calendar with plenty of space to record birthdays, anniversaries, and other important dates as well as personal notes. This lovely book could be a gift for art lovers and will offer inspiration day by day.

Design by Yekaterina Gorayeva368 pages with 365 colour illustrations

Hardcover8.3 × 7.5 in. / 21 × 19 cm

ISBN 978-5-91208-323-5£ 24.99 / $ 32.95

Text by Alexei Shestakov Design by Vladimir Yakovlev


8.2 × 7.8 in. / 21.5 × 20.5 cmISBN 978-5-91208-318-1

£ 29.99 / $ 32.95

The Sea in Art. The HermitageIn the richest collection of the State Hermitage we may find answers to many questions. Even to such as these: how did people of ancient civilizations imagine the sea? How did they express in myths and artworks their awe of the profound? What invariably attracts artists in it? The story how miracles could get along with practical considerations in the minds of ancient Greeks and Romans is told in the works of sculpture, jewellery and coins. Desire to achieve material success preserving at the same time one’s moral bearings is expressed in the paintings that belong to the golden age of Holland. The art of the 19th–20th centuries eloquently shows the erasing of border between reality and creative insight. The album includes more than 250 illustrations with brief commentaries.

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Text by Ekaterina Andreeva Design by Konstantin Kuzminsky

88 pages with 12 colour illustrationsPaperback

4.3 × 6 in. / 11 × 16 cmISBN 978-5-91208-338-9

£ 9.99 / $ 12.95

Kazimir Malevich. Black SquareEach story of the series bears the unique imprint of its narrator; each has its own atmosphere, logic and plot.

Malevich’s Black Square heralded the triumph of non-objectivity, when there was nothing left to destroy in the figurative form and the object lost its materiality. This canvas, shown at the “Last Futurist Exhibition of Paintings 0.10” in Petrograd in December 1915, embodied its creator’s conception of “the zero of form”, the beginning and the end of everything. The artist repeated the famous composition, which undoubtedly became an icon of 20th century painting. The Hermitage has a version dated c. 1930, it was formerly kept in the collection of the Malevich family.

Rembrandt. The Return of the Prodigal SonEach masterpiece of the series is a fascinating art-history novella and, at the same time, an invitation to the following tale, the next chapter in this never-ending cycle of astonishing stories, of which the museum has so many.

This whole work is dominated by the idea of the victory of love, goodness and charity. The event is treated as the highest act of human wisdom and spiritual nobility, and it takes place in absolute silence and stillness. The drama and depth of feeling are expressed in the figures of both father and son, with all the emotional precision with which Rembrandt was endowed. This parable in Rembrandt’s treatment is addressed to the heart of everyone.

Text by Sergei DanielDesign by Konstantin Kuzminsky


4.3 × 6 in. / 11 × 16 cmISBN 978-5-91208-336-5

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RembrandtThe Return of the Prodigal Son

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Portrait of the Actress Jeanne SamaryEach story of the series bears the unique imprint of its narrator; each has its own atmosphere, logic and plot.

Jeanne Samary was an actress at the Comédie-Française. This portrait of her is perhaps one of the most famous of Renoir's many renowned canvases following the Impressionist principle of painting life as it truly is, the artist showed the actress in her usual setting. In the soft, fluid contours, vibrant texture and the finest of colour reflections, we see the stroke of this mature master of Impressionism.

Text by Mikhail GermanDesign by Konstantin Kuzminsky


4.3 × 6 in. / 11 × 16 cmISBN 978-5-91208-339-6

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Pablo Picasso. The Absinthe DrinkerEach masterpiece in the series is a fascinating art-history novella and, at the same time, an invitation to the following tale, the next chapter in this never-ending cycle of astonishing stories, of which the museum has so many.

Picasso produced this work in the Autumn of 1901, during his second trip to Paris, when he was just 22 years old. The theme of man's loneliness in a cafe, of isolation and emptiness, was not new to French art in the second half of the 19th century and could be found in the works of Degas and of Picasso's much-admired Toulouse-Lautrec. But in the paintings by the young Spaniard the theme acquired a previously unknown sense of drama.

Text by Mikhail GermanDesign by Konstantin Kuzminsky


4.3 × 6 in. / 11 × 16 cmISBN 978-5-91208-337-2

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Pablo PicassoThe Absinthe Drinker

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RenoirPortrait of the Actress Jeanne Samary

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Saint Petersburg in Watercolours and Prints of the 18th and 19th CenturiesHow did the Neva embankments and Nevsky Prospekt look two or three centuries ago? How did the Winter Palace change with time? And what about fashions in the capital founded by Peter the Great? In this elegant and lavishly illustrated book the answers are provided by eye-witnesses—Alexei Zubov, Mikhail Makhayev, Andrei Martynov, Karl Beggrow, Carl Collmann, Vasily Sadovnikov and other artists who with inspiration and affection recorded the appearance, life and atmosphere of the young and beautiful city on the Neva.

Text by Galina Mirolyubova, Galina Printseva, Victor Looga

Design by Olga Pen208 pages with 130 colour illustrations

Hardcover9 × 6.7 in. / 23.8 × 17.6 cmISBN 978-5-91208-316-7

£ 24.99 / $ 32.95

The Hermitage Impressionists and Post-ImpressionistsThe Hermitage collection of French paintings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries is regarded as one of the finest in the world and includes over 250 works by the founders of Impressionism: Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Sisley, Degas, as well as well-known paintings by Post-Impressionists: Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and other worldwide favourites.

Design by Vladimir Yakovlev224 pages with 220 colour illustrations

Paperback3.9 × 4.5 in. / 10 × 11.5 cm

ISBN 978-5-91208-330-3£ 9.99 / $ 12.95

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Camille PissarroPlace de Théâtre Français in Paris1898. France

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Paul CézanneSelf-Portrait in a CasquetteCirca 1873. France

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The Hermitage Christmas BookIn the Christian world the images of the Virgin and Saints as well as the scenes of the Annunciation and the Adoration have been the source of artists’ inspiration throughout many centuries. Evangelic themes are represented in the Hermitage collection by the canvases of such men of genius as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Titian, Brueghel, Rubens, Van Dyke, Rembrandt and many others. A wide variety of masterpieces allows us to illustrate the scene of Nativity not only with magnificent paintings but also with drawings, engravings, reliefs and elegant objects of applied arts. Design by Vladimir Yakovlev


3.9 × 4.5 in. / 10 × 11.5 cmISBN 978-5-91208-193-4

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Bonifazio Veronese The Adoration of the ShepherdsEarly 1570s. Italy

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Lucas Cranach the ElderThe Virgin and Child under an Apple TreeCirca 1530. Germany

The Hermitage TreasuresThe State Hermitage Museum founded in 1764 by Russian Empress Catherine the Great in the heart of historic St Petersburg, occupies an ensemble of magnificent buildings on the bank of the River Neva. The grandest of all is the Winter Palace—the former residence of the Russian tsars—designed by Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli. Within the walls of this artistic enclave reside the Hermitage collections, about three million works that trace the development of world art and culture from the Stone Age till today.


Paperback3.9 × 4.5 in. / 10 × 11.5 cmISBN 978-5-91208-191-0

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Amorous Couple Maithuna10th century. India

RaphaelThe Holy Family (Madonna with the Beardless Joseph)1506. Italy

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The Hermitage Birds and FlowersThroughout the ages people have admired the perfect shapes of flowers and the natural grace of birds. They became the subjects of countless myths and legends; their images have appeared on walls and canvases; their exquisite lines have been borrowed for the creation of jewellery and architecture. The Hermitage’s extremely rich collection makes it possible to explore how artists in different countries and eras have treated this eternal theme, striving to capture the fragile harmony and natural perfection of the world’s flora and fauna. Design by Vladimir Yakovlev


3.9 × 4.5 in. / 10 × 11.5 cmISBN 978-5-91208-146-0

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Lucas Cranach the ElderVenus and Cupid1509. Germany

The Hermitage. Cupid’s DartsThe pranks of capricious and playful Cupid, the son of Venus, the goddess of love, can bring both suffering and delight to mortals and gods of Olympus alike. No one can escape his arrows, and artists down through the ages have been unable to resist the temptation to depict scenes of coquetry, tormenting longing and desperate passion. In the Hermitage collection love stories caused by the antics of this naughty fair-haired boy are depicted in a whole range of works of art—Greek vases, paintings, engravings, bas-reliefs and sculptures.


Paperback3.9 × 4.5 in. / 10 × 11.5 cm

ISBN 978-5-91208-065-4£ 9.99 / $ 12.95

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Master of the Winter Landscape (Gijsbrecht Lijtens ?)Winter LandscapeLate 16th – early 17th century. Flanders

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The Hermitage. Netherlandish, Flemish, Dutch PaintingThe Hermitage collection of the 15th and 16th-century Netherlandish painting contains about 100 works, among them several magnificent masterpieces by Robert Campin, Rogier van der Weyden and Lucas van Leyden. The Flemish school of 17th and 18th centuries is represented in the museum by the leading masters such as Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck and Frans Snyders. The Hermitage holds numerous prized paintings from the 17th-century Dutch Golden Age. Included here are exquisite works by Rembrandt van Rijn, Frans Hals, Pieter de Hooch, Jacob van Ruisdael, and many other Dutch masters.


Paperback3.9 × 4.5 in. / 10 × 11.5 cmISBN 978-5-91208-332-7

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The Hermitage CatsLives of cats and men intertwined long ago. People worshiped cats like gods, full of superstition they were afraid of luminous eyes in the dark, asked for their help in protecting houses from rodents and adored them as their best friends, while painters and sculptors could not help admiring cat’s grace which they considered perfect.

The book gives a wide-ranging and detailed presentation of the “feline” exhibits in the Hermitage: Ancient Egyptian bronze, mediaeval European painting, Chinese and Japanese graphic art, Russian lubok prints of the 18th to 20th centuries, cats in the form of toys and much more.


Paperback3.9 × 4.5 in. / 10 × 11.5 cm

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The Hermitage State Rooms. MasterpiecesAn illustrated publication contains the most important highlights of European painting dating from the fourteenth to eighteenth centuries and the splendid state rooms of the Imperial palace. This book informs readers about the history of the museum collection and the gems of its displays of Italian, French, Netherlandish, Flemish, Dutch, Spanish, German and English painting.

Text by Oleg NeverovDesign by Vladimir Yakovlev


4.56 × 6.69 in. / 11.6 × 17 cmISBN 978-5-91208-240-5

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Journey Through the Hermitage. Queen of TulipsThey were there for different reasons: Vanya was hiding in the museum crowds to escape from fatigue and a sour mood, while Tasya had wandered away from her parents and gotten lost while collecting ideas for her album. The kids find that they have something in common: the ability to travel through time and space by gazing deeply and observantly into paintings. For them, the images become portals into a different reality, where they meet Rembrandt and his characters and also encounter Queen of the Tulips.

Text by Daria Agapova, Varvara Pomidor

Design by Varvara Pomidor80 pages with 80 colour illustrations

Hardcover5.5 × 7.4 in. / 14 × 19 cm

ISBN 978-5-91208-280-1£ 9.99 / $ 12.95

ABCEvery letter in this unusual ABC book opens a door into the treasure-stores of one of the world’s greatest museums.

The book is aimed not only at children who start learning their letters, but also at a slightly older age group and at parents who want their children to understand art and beauty.

At the end of the book there are detailed commentaries on all the works featured.

Design by David and Sergey Plaksin74 pages with 106 colour illustrations

Hardcover8.2 × 8.2 in. / 21 × 21 cm

ISBN 978-5-91208-254-2£ 12.99 / $ 16.95

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I Can Read It MyselfA delightful way to encourage children to learn and memorize using masterpieces of the Hermitage Museum collection!

This book is a part of a series developed to introduce young readers to the world of art.


Hardcover6.2 × 6.2 in. / 16 × 16 cm

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ABCMiniature souvenir version of the large-format ABC book.

Enlarged details of paintings, sculpture, jewellery, netsuke, Scythian gold—all these masterpieces of world culture created by human hands across many centuries can be found here.

Design by David and Sergey Plaksin64 pages with 30 colour illustrations

Hardcover3.9 × 3.9 in. / 10 × 10 cm

ISBN 978-5-91208-334-1£ 4.99 / $ 6.95

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I Can Count It MyselfThis book is part of a series developed to introduce young readers to the world of art.

Children are invited to search for how many of a certain object they can find in a single piece of art. Then, they turn the page to discover four different works illustrating that number. Information about each piece of art and its creator appears at the end of the book.


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The Hermitage RainbowThe book is aimed at children who start learning colours using masterpieces of the Hermitage Museum collection.

This souvenir edition encourages readers of all ages to explore new ways of looking at images and is an entertaining way for little ones to read and learn.


Hardcover6.2 × 6.2 in. / 16 × 16 cm

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The Romanov Dynasty CostumesThis book presents historical costumes of the Romanov dynasty from its 17th-century founder, Mikhail Fiodorovich, to Nicholas II and Tsarevich Alexei. Each picture is accompanied by a brief informative commentary. Full-colour images of the costumes—details of paintings from the Hermitage collection—are placed on all four pages of the cover as guides for colouring. The book is printed on Finnish paper that allows the use of coloured pencils, watercolour, gouache or gel pens to complete the drawings.

Text by Elena Moiseyenko and Yulia Plotnikova

Cover design by Alexander VeselovOutline drawings by Anna Andreyeva

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8.5 × 11.4 in. / 21.8 × 29 cmISBN 978-5-91208-199-6

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The Russian Tsar Mikhail Feodorovich (1596–1645; reigned from 1613), the ruler who began the Romanov dynasty, is depicted in the grand robes that were worn on ceremonial occasions like major holidays or the reception of foreign embassies.

The Tsar is wearing a platno – a loose robe with wide sleeves in the Byzantine manner. Over the platno he wears a broad detached collar. The outfit was made of magnificent brocade woven with silver and gold thread and richly embellished with semiprecious stones and pearls set in gold. On his head the Tsar is wearing the Old Russian equivalent of a crown, a

magnificent hat trimmed with fur that is known as the Hat of Monomakh. In his hands he holds the royal regalia – an orb and sceptre. Ceremonial clothing was highly valued and passed down from generation to generation.

The frame around the portrait is reproduced from an old manuscript book, the Tsarsky Tituliarnik (Book of Titles) of 1672. It contains portraits of all Russian princes, tsars and patriarchs in original ornamental frames designed by the best artists working for the Posolsky Prikaz (office for foreign affairs) in Moscow.

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Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich (1629–1676; reigned from 1645) is shown in formal attire similar to that worn by his father: a loose ankle-length platno gown adorned with semiprecious stones. The Hat of Monomakh is embellished with gold, precious stones and pearls; it is topped by a small crown with a cross. Robes for the tsar were sewn from a thick fabric known as altabas – a variety of brocade ornamented with

gold and silver thread. This heavy fabric, woven with a sumptuous pattern was very expensive and used only for magnificent royal and ecclesiastical vestments. Soon, however, they became a thing of the past. As early as 1701 Peter I, the son of Alexei Mikhailovich, strictly forbade the wearing of traditional attire and introduced European dress for Russian nobles, including, of course, his own courtiers.

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Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich (1845–1894; the future Emperor Alexander III) and his young wife Maria Fеodorovna (1847–1928; born Princess Dagmar of Denmark) are depicted in their everyday clothing, without regalia. The heir to the throne belonged the Emperor’s suite and is shown wearing the standart frock-coat of the courtiers – dark green with a red collar, white piping on the collar and cuffs,

silver buttons and an aiguillette. His greyish-blue trousers have broad red stripes down the sides.

His wife’s visiting dress is very similar to the outfits worn by ordinary women from the middle strata of Russian urban society: a wide skirt of a single grey-beige colour held out by a crinoline (hooped petticoat) that came into use in the middle of the nineteenth century. The dress has a broad girdle and modestly trimmed with flounces.

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The wedding ceremony of Emperor Nicholas II (1868–1918; reigned 1894–1917) and Alexandra Fеodorovna (1872–1918; born Princess Alix of Hesse-Darmstadt in Germany) took place in the Great Church of the Winter Palace on 26 November 1894.

The groom wears the uniform of the Life-Guards Hussar Regiment: a red hussar’s dolman jacket with gold piping and dark blue cavalry breeches tucked into his boots.

The bride is wearing a wedding a nuptial crown with a fine lace veil, a heavy old-fashioned Russian

court dress, and a mantle with a long train trimmed with ermine.

The marriage service is performed by a protopres-byter (senior priest) in ceremonial dress: a phelonion – a long sleeveless outer vestment – woven in gold and embroided with silk, beneath which we can see a stich-arion – a long tunic descending to the floor. His mitre, headwear for the senior clergy, is decorated with at-tached icons, precious stones and pearls.

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Emperor Alexander I (1777–1825; reigned from 1801) abolished his father’s Prussian ways and introduced a new uniform for the Russian army. He is shown in a new general’s uniform: a short tunic with tails behind, gold epaulets and a stand-up collar, decorated with gold-embroided oak-leaves.

His dandyish white breeches, made of deer or elk leather, are tucked into Hessian boots. Еhe Emperor sports a bicorn hat with a splendid plume of cockerel feathers and a tricolour (black-orange-white) cockade.

As a bearer of the Order of St Andrew the First-Called, he is depicted with the light blue sash of the order.

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Empress Elizabeth Alexeyevna (1779–1826; born Louise Maria, Marquess of Baden in Germany, wife of Alexander I) is shown wearing a dress in the classical style – a light, loosely hanging tunic with a high waist. With the succession of the young Alexander I at the very start of the nineteenth century, new French fashion reached Russia and liberated women from tight corsets and enormous skirts.

But in the harsh climate of Russia open tunics made of fine, semitransparent fabrics had to be supplemented by large Oriental shawls. Shawls were produced in Western and Russian workshops appeared later; they were usually edged with ancient-style gold ornament. Instead of elaborate coiffures, women’s hair was simply gathered in a knot, again after classical models. The Empress’s forehead and girdle are adorned by antique cameos.

What the Dutch LikeThis is a drawing book, a colouring book and a notebook all at once. It shows fragments of Dutch paintings from the Hermitage Museum collection.

Draw in it! Write in it! Join the vast world that the Dutch discovered for art lovers of all ages!

Drawings by Nika Dubrovsky64 pages with 72 drawings

Paperback7,87 × 9,45 in. / 20 × 24 cmISBN 978-5-91208-305-1

£ 9.99 / $ 12.95

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Russian National CostumeThis colouring book presents descriptions of the clothing traditionally worn by the inhabitants of Russia’s Northern, Central and Southern provinces and the wonderfully beautiful articles that were made in peasant homes without electricity or any modern technology in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Text by Elena MoiseyenkoCover design by Alexander Veselov

Outline drawings by Yulia Vasilyeva24 pages with 23 line drawings

Paperback8.5 × 11.4 in. / 21.8 × 29 cmISBN 978-5-91208-197-2

£ 5 / $ 6.95

Military Costume in Mediaeval EuropeA remarkable journey to the Mediaeval European military history, this colouring book contains information about the chain mail and plate armor that protected Western European knights and Russian warriors in the 12th to 17th centuries.

Text by Klim ZhukovCover design by Alexander Veselov

Outline drawings by Marina Veselova24 pages with 23 line drawings

Paperback8.5 × 11.4 in. / 21.8 × 29 cmISBN 978-5-91208-231-3

£ 5 / $ 6.95

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Alice in Wonderland Сard GameAn Alice in Wonderland card game with artwork based on Sir John Tenniel’s original illustrations for the books.

This game can be played by several people. The 48 cards make up 16 sets of 3 cards each. The cards in each set have different pictures on them, but the same numbers so you know they belong together. The player who assembles the most sets wins.

A reprint of “Alice in Wonderland” card game published by Thomas De la Rue & Co. Ltd in 1898 from The State Hermitage Museum Collection. Design by Konstantin Kuzminsky

48 cards, brochure, box5 × 7 in. / 12.8 × 18 cm

ISBN 978-5-91208-341-9£ 19.99 / $ 24.95

Indeed, a visit to a museum resembles a journey. Walking along its galleries and seeing the masterpieces of bygone ages we get acquainted with different epochs, countries, their customs and traditions. This may become even more fascinating if we take along brushes, colours and coloured pencils. We offer you the opportunity not only to colour the paintings from the Hermitage collection, but also create your own, inspired by the works of famous artists.

HERMITAGE COLOURING BOOK

A MUSEUMJOURNEYwww.arcapublishers.ru

A Museum Journey Indeed, a visit to a museum resembles a journey. Walking along its galleries and seeing the masterpieces of bygone ages we get acquainted with different epochs, countries, their customs and traditions.

This may become even more fascinating if we take along brushes, colours and coloured pencils. We offer you the opportunity not only to colour the paintings from the Hermitage collection, but also create your own, inspired by the works of famous artists.

Illustration by Liza BumDesign by Konstantin Kuzminsky

24 pages with 80 colour illustrations6.69 × 9.44 in. / 17 × 24 cmISBN 978-5-91208-207-8

£ 2.99 / $ 3.95

Here you can see the two warriors of the 17th century. One is from the Old Netherlands depicted by Lucas van Leyden, the other is a landsknecht, a soldier of fortune, featured in the Swiss stained glass. Colour their clothes, bearing in mind that in those days red as a symbol of victory was a predominant colour in military uniforms.

Here you can see the two warriors of the 17th century. One is from the Old Netherlands depicted by Lucas van Leyden, the other is a landsknecht, a soldier of fortune, featured in the Swiss stained glass. Colour their clothes, bearing in mind that in those days red as a symbol of victory was a predominant colour in military uniforms.

Renaissance painters tried hard to make a portrait resemble a model in the minutest details. Look how realistically a grand lady is portrayed by Italian painter Lorenzo Costa! She wears elegantly tailored dress and almost no jewelry. Try and colour the dress so that the lady could attend a luxurious party!

Renaissance painters tried hard to make a portrait resemble a model in the minutest details. Look how realistically a grand lady is portrayed by Italian painter Lorenzo Costa! She wears elegantly tailored dress and almost no jewelry. Try and colour the dress so that the lady could attend a luxurious party!

Here you see two oriental beauties, Persian and Japanese. Both their dresses demonstrate elaborate design and are made of wonderful textiles with rare and elegant patterns. Colour their attires using your favourite colours and look at the originals at the end of the book.

Here you see two oriental beauties, Persian and Japanese. Both their dresses demonstrate elaborate design and are made of wonderful textiles with rare and elegant patterns. Colour their attires using your favourite colours and look at the originals at the end of the book.

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