Re: Jewels from Imperial St Petersburg/ new book Archived Message
Posted by Mia  on March 12, 2013, 9:26 am, in reply to "Re: Jewels from Imperial St Petersburg/ new book"
It's worth buying, Alejandro! There are nearly 300 pages, 7 parts, which are divided in smaller chapters:
Four Empresses - early history
From neoclassicism to the empire style - Paul I
The Emprie style - Alexander I
The emergence of historicism - Nicholas I
Battle of the Styles - Alexander II
Fin de siecle - Alexander III
The New century - Nicholas II
The last part "The new century - N II" has for example following titles:
Among the birds and the bees
The belle epoque and garland style
The most elegant and best-dressed woman in Petrograd
Countess Betsy Shouvalova
The wedding jewelry of princess Irina Iusupova
and 10 other titles...
It's very fascinating book indeed. Full of stories from here and there. A bit in Munn style. The focus is often in the people from Grand Duchy Finland, Finnish Jewellers in St Petersburg - maybe because PhD Ulla Tillander is fourth generation jeweller from Finland. There are many interesting anecdotes, short stories of people (Virubova, Ducky, Pistolekors, Karamzin, etc...)
Lot of pictures (by Katja Hagelstam) of jewellery, Fabergé, Tillander, Bolin, small ornaments, few larger. Maybe quite much of jewellery from Finnish private collections and not seen so often. And a lot of pictures of people, photos and paintings.
The dustjacket has beautiful close-up of the Fabergé winter egg and info of its present whereabouts. 
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