Picturesque Journey from the Northern Capital to the Ancient Capital Saint-Petersburg Moscow

With 18th and 19th century Russian artists

Published 2003 - Hardcover in slipcase - 240 pages - Measures 290mm x 275mm

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 kaleidoscopically 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 travellers 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 Théophile Gautier, Leon de Bussier, Astolphe de Custine, Robert and Clara Schumann, Alexandre Dumas, Martha and Catherine Wilmot, Louis Philippe de Ségure and many others. Let us follow them along the highway to Moscow, see the sights and witness the magnificent festivities celebrating the coronations of the Russian monarchs. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the voyage pittoresque books were very popular. In our book we shall be taking a voyage not only through space but also through time travelling through the earlier history of Russia.