Свойства века. Статьи по истории русского искусства

Baron Nikolai Vrangel (1880-1915), a famous Russian art historian and critic, was curator of the Imperial Hermitage. This is a collection of his essays on Russian art of the mid 17th-second third of 19th centuries previously published in the periodical Appolon. The baron investigated not only the Tsars' and his court's attitude towards the arts, but also more general issues like romanticism in art, Russian women in the arts, etc. Chronicle of N. Vrangel's life.