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Крест ордена Андрея Первозванного.
С.К. Зарянко.
Портрет поручика лейб-гвардии полка
А. Д. Пономарева. 1855 г.
И.- Б. Лампи.
Парный портрет Великих князей
Александра Павловича
(в костюме ордена
Св. Андрея Первозванного)
и Константина Павловича
(в облачении ордена
Св. Александра Невского)
И.- Б. Лампи.
Парный портрет Великих князей
Александра Павловича
(в костюме ордена Св. Андрея Первозванного)
фрагмент
Знак ордена Св. Александра Невского
с бриллиантовыми украшениями.
С-Петербург.
Мастерская
Д. Осипова, 1890-е гг.
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CONTENTS
CAMERA-OBSCURA
Svetlana Amelekhina & Rifat Gafifullin Ceremonial regalia in the Russian Imperial Court
The senior specialist from the Moscow Kremlin State Museum and the
archivist from the State Museum of Pavlovsk near St. Petersburg give a
thorough and detailed description of how the ceremonial regalia for
orders were established and each stage of development throughout the
XVIII century.
Natalia Sipovskaia Ceremonial dinner services.
A Masters graduate in art criticism and a senior specialist with the
Research Institute of Art, Sipovskaia examines the first sets of
XVIII-century Russian tableware commissioned by the Russian court and
intended for use at order celebration days, when all members of the
order would gather to dine off the tableware. The author pays
particular attention to the cultural context which contributed to the
emergence of such dinner services. The addendum provides a register of
orders and inventories made upon receipt of the finished crockery at
the Franz Gardner factory in Verbilki.
M. B. Orders depicted on Russian porcelain.
Items of porcelain decorated with pictures of orders. All the items are
from the State Historical Museum. The author provides detailed comments.
Marianna Bubchikova Souvenirs of regimental dinners.
Menus, crockery and table-linen from the latter half of the XIX and
beginning of the XX centuries from the State Historical Museum. This
article by the specialist of the Museum’s Department of Ceramics and
Glass throws light on the near-forgotten tradition of military re-union
dinners. The menus, which were lithographs and, later,
chromolithographs, were specially commissioned from professional
artists. They often contained sayings, cartoons, amusing stories and,
today, serve as evidence of the particular way officers lived.
Svetlana Argastseva The history of the panorama.
This article by Argastseva, who is a Masters graduate in art criticism
and head of the exhibition department of the «Battle of Stalingrad»
Panorama Museum, is dedicated to the phenomenon of the ‘panorama’. This
art form brings together painting, sculpture, theatrical ‘props’,
lighting and architecture. Panoramic art, which is a rarity these days,
was popular and enjoyed great success in the XIX century. This article
reviews the best-known panoramic battle paintings in Europe.
David Edge The Armoury of the Wallace Collection, London
The curator of arms writes about the most valuable exhibits of this
unique collection, which was started in Paris in the 1860s by the
Marquis of Hertford and subsequently expanded by his son, Richard
Wallace. The collection includes oriental and European armour and
weaponry from the XV — XIX centuries. In spite of the fact that the
collection was not added to after the death of its founder in 1890, it
is now the most outstanding collection of its kind not only in Europe,
but in the whole world.
BLOW UP
Provenance
Ol’ga Speranskaia A portrait of hetman Platov: the history of a real
find.
Speranskaia, an art critic and specialist on the overseas market in
Russian art, traces the history of a portrait by the English artist
William Beech of the famous Ataman, Platov, who fought in the 1812 war.
This portrait, commissioned by the Irish aristocrat, General Beresford,
was owned privately for over a century and recently surfaced on the
antiquarian market.
Interpretation
Alexey Lebedev Copied work in a country estate portrait gallery
(second half of the XVIII to the beginning of the XIX centuries).
Lebedev is a Ph.D. in Art History and the leading specialist at the
Research Institute of Culture. Alluding to the works of «average»
artists, he describes the place of the portrait in Russian country
estate culture at the end of the XVIII and beginning of the XIX
centuries. The portrait embodied a noble’s idea of prestige; therefore,
it was in this particular genre of painting that copies most often
appeared. The reproduction would frequently concentrate on the
appearance of the person in the picture, rather than the whole of the
canvass. The author ascertains that the concept of artistic value
underwent a number of significant changes and that in those days a copy
was valued more highly than it is today.
Personalia
Sergey Podstanitskii An unknown Russian painter of battle-pieces.
The popular battle-painter from the beginning of the century has all
but been forgotten today. However, his works appear from time to time
on the antiquarian market and this is the reason for interest in the
artist’s legacy.
Attribution
Nataliia Priimak A lieutenant of the hussar regiment.
The author is a Master’s graduate in history and the leading specialist
of the Manuscript Department of the State Tretiakov Gallery. Priimak
attributes the portrait of a soldier held in the Tretiakov to the
popular Russian artist of the mid-XIX century, Sergei Zarianko.
Following a detailed analysis of the dress uniform of the man in the
portrait and archival research, the author has been able to establish
the identity of the soldier.
Private collections
1. Military history in private collections
2. Miniature portraits and military insignia from private
3. Moscow
collections
4. Russian dress uniform in private collections
5. A unique collection of dress uniforms and military insignia (with
detailed comments).
6. Russian order insignia in private collections. Order insignia of high merit from two of the largest private
collections in Moscow. Comments are taken from the Order Statutes,
dating from Peter I.
7. The results of sales of order insignia.
Interests
N. D. Vladimir Dushkin — a master of historical miniatures.
The article is about an artist and miniature-painter, who was an expert
on military history and created a whole gallery of flat figures or «figurines
plates», which today are collectable items. Vladimir Dushkin
(1900–1989) was one of the first generation of Russians to emigrate and
spent most of his life in France. This is the first publication in
Russia about the artist.
KALEIDOSCOPE
Exhibitions
Reviews of art exhibitions.
Books
Reviews of art publications.
Sales
A review of the most interesting sales on the foreign antiquarian
market.
Announcements
Announcements of art fairs, art auctions and art exhibitions in Russia
and abroad.
CHRONICLES
Chronicle of a journey
Sofia Pokrovskaia The island of Malta.
Pokrovskaia shares her impressions of a journey to the island of Malta.
MUSEUM
The National Suvorov Memorial Museum (St. Petersburg).
An introduction to the Suvorov Museum and an account of its unique
collection of tin soldiers. Rules on the temporary export of cultural
valuables from the Russian Federation.
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