Author: LEMUS, V. V. ; TEXT AND SELECTION
Title: Pushkin Palaces and Parks: The Lyceum, the Catherine Palace, the Cameron Thermae, the Catherine Park, the Alexander Palace and Park
Description: Leningrad: Aurora Publishers, 1984. First Edition (?). Hard Cover. Illustrated by G. Khatin, B. Kuznetsov, Et Al. hardcover has lovely, cloth covered boards, that look like colorful wallpaper from one of the palaces; white spine with gold lettering on the spine. Pages are clean and tight. Printed and bound in the German Democratic Republic [GDR]. Lavishly illustrated with 80 b/w and 116 color pictures, many of them full page sized. "The town of Pushkin [formerlyTsarkoye Selo], called so in memory of the great Russian poet, who studied there at the Lyceum....is also famous for its magnificent palace and park complex, created during the 18th and 19th centuries....the focal point of the ensemble is the Catherine Palace, the work of the architects Mikhail Zemtsov, Andrei Kvasov and Sava Chefakinsky. In 1752-56 Bartolommeo Rastrelli completed the project and decorated the palace exteriors...the palace ranks among the masterpieces of the Russian Baroque style...this edition contains an extensive recounting of the history of the ensemble's formation and touches on the work of Soviet restorers. Of special interest are documentary photographs showing the palaces and parks of Pushkin reduced to ruins during the 2d World War". There are 243 pages of text and photographs, some numbered, others not. Very oversized and overweight, 6#. ; Photographs; 9 1/2 x 11 1/2; 200+ pages; Hardcover has bumping on all corners; long gift Inscription on title page, possibly in Polish, dated 1.7.85. DJ has shelf wear, rubbing/scuffing, bumping, nicks and scrapes, 1" closed tear at top of front; 1" section missing from botton of spine; in a mylar cover.. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .

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