Author: Niederle, Lubor [1865-1944] ; et al.
Title: Nikodim Pavlovich Kondakov, 1844-1924. K vosmidesiatilietiiu so dnia rozhdeniia. So statiami L. Niderle, E. Minnsa, A. Munosa..,
Description: Praga, [Plamia], 1925. orig. wrappers. 18x12cm, 85 pp. Bibliograficheskii spisok trudov Nikodima Pavlovicha Kondakova": pp. 75-85.. Frontispiece. Unopened. Cover edges faded. Small tear to cover. Good. ¶ Text entirely in Russian. Memorial tributes to the Russian exile art historian. ["Nikodim (or Nikodeme) Pavlovich Kondakov (November 1 (13), 1844, village of Khalan, Kursk Governorate, Russian Empire–February 17, 1925, Prague, Czechoslovakia), was an art historian, with special expertise in the history of Russian Christian icons...From 1888 he taught in St. Petersburg University. From 1893 he was a member of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts, and from 1898 a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1895 with Fyodor Uspensky he founded the Russian Archaeological Institute of Constantinople. During the Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War in Russia Kondakov lived in Odessa and Yalta. In 1920 he emigrated to Bulgaria, and then to Czechoslovakia, where he taught in Prague University until his death in 1925. In his first book, on Greek manuscript illumination, published in 1877, Kondakov approached stylistic evolution of eastern Romanesque art through the use of artistic ideal. He collaborated with Salomon Reinach in Antiquités de la Russie Méridionale (1891). His lectures influenced future historians, among others, Michael Rostovtzeff. Kondakov wrote numerous works on the history of Ancient Greek,Russian, Georgian and Eastern Roman art. He founded modern method in the history of the art of the Eastern Roman Empire...." - wikipedia].

Keywords: Nikodim Pavlovich Kondakov, Russian Exiles, Art History, Byzantine Icons, Byzantinology, Medieval, Archaeology, Exile Historians, Biography, Russia