Saint-Petersburg - Moscow. Picturesque Journey from the Northern Capital to the Ancient Capital
Автор: [автор не указан] Год: 2003 Издание:Интербук-бизнес Страниц: 240 ISBN: 5891641321 Стильно оформленное подарочное издание в шелковом переплете с серебряным обрезом. The picture book "Saint-Petersburg-Moscow. Picturesque Journey from the Northern Capital to the Ancient Capital" is not just another conventional coffee-table book. It is a kaleidoscopic ally varied presentation of engravings, water colors, an drawings created by the artists in the 18th and 19th centuries, as well as extracts from travel journals, diaries, and letters of the diplomats, authors, musicians, and famous travelers whose sincere, precise and sometimes quite unexpected comments and observations enliven the pictorial "evidence" presented in the book pages. We shall get glimpses of the Russian road scenes through the eyes of the famous Russian authors Aleksandr Radishchev and Aleksandr Pushkin, as well as such distinguished foreign visitors to Russia as Theophile Gautier, Leon de Bussier, Astolphe de Custine, Robert and Clara Schumann, Alexandre Dumas, Martha and Catherine Wilmot, Louis...
