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21Empress Maria Feodorovna'Favorite Residences in Russia and in Denmark , Корнева Галина, Чебоксарова Татьяна (2010)
"Thirty-two of the unparalleled fifty-two Easter eggs created by Carl Faberge were gifts for Empress Maria Feodorovna. Even his royal clients didn't know what he had created for them until the day… 2139 руб22Long Ago and Far Away: James Taylor: His Life and Music , Timothy White (2011)
From "The Beatles" patronage of his 1968 debut album to his Grammy awards for Hourglass, James Taylor has remained a universally acclaimed songwriter of effortless eloquence and power. In this major… 1179 руб23Courts and Courtly Arts in Renaissance Italy: Arts and Politics in the Early Modern Age (2010)
Italian Renaissance art is closely intertwined with the development of courts and court culture in much of the Italian territory. The patronage of the ruling families of the small Italian city-states… 4143 руб24Art in Vienna 1898-1918. Klimt, Kokoschka, Schiele and Their Contemporaries , Vergo Peter (2015)
The artistic stagnation of Vienna at the end of the 19th century was rudely shaken by the artists of the Vienna Secession. Their work shocked a conservative public, but their successive exhibitions… 1980 руб25Hera. The Goddess and Her Glory , O'Connor George (2011)
The story of Hera, Queen of the Gods, and the heroes who won her favor. Volume 3 of Olympians, Hera: The Goddess and Her Glory, introduces readers to the Queen of the Gods and Goddesses in the… 823 руб26Chinese Literature , Knight Sabina (2012)
Perhaps nowhere else has literature been as conscious a collective endeavor as in China, and China's survival over three thousand years may owe more to its literary traditions than to its political… 493 руб27Late Temple Architecture of India, 15th to 19th Centuries. Continuities, Revivals, Appropriations, and Innovations , Michell George (2015)
From the fifteenth century on, after a period of widespread destruction and demolition, India witnessed a resumption of temple patronage and building activity. These alatea temples, however, are… 4386 руб28The Last Banquet , Grimwood Jonathan (2013)
We meet Jean-Marie d'Aumout as a penniless orphan eating beetles by the side of a road. His fate is changed after an unlikely encounter finds him patronage and he is sent to military academy. Despite… 1193 руб29The Book of Madness and Cures , O`Melveny R. (2013)
Gabriella Mondini is a rarity in 16th century Venice, she's a woman who practices medicine. Her father, a renowned physician, has provided her entree to this all-male profession, and inspired in… 580 руб30To Kill a Tsar , Andrew Williams (2011)
April 2nd 1879. St Petersburg. A shot rings out in Palace Square. The Tsar is unhurt, but badly shaken. Cossack guards tackle the would-be assassin to the ground. And in the melee no one notices a… 1098 грн (только Украина)
