Museums - Special issue
This special issue tells about the collection of the State Museum Reserve Peterhof. The museum specialists remember and estimate the history of this wonderful place. In Peter the Great times, the first Russian stone-cutting industry (Peterhof grinding mill) was founded and greatly developed. Subsequently, the mill was renamed into the Peterhof lapidary works and took the participation in decorating of Saint Petersburg palaces and mansions. This mill was a workplace for a constellation of outstanding stonecutters. A part of a small pamphlet (1921; authors: A. E. Fersman and N. I. Vlodavets) is published in this issue. The pamphlet, devoted to the history of the first state stone-processing plant, has never been republished and became the bibliographic rarity. Nowadays, readers have the possibility to read it again.
Besides the articles about the Peterhof fountains, this issue mainly tells about stone and metal museum collections, and their bright and interesting history: architecture details, sculpture, decorative and applied arts masterpieces, etc. We hope, that these materials will show the other side of the Peterhof history.
You may find below more details about the issue or book printed or electronic version of the journal.
| Palaces, parks, and fountains | |
| ArticleName | Marble Peterhof: from dream to reality. Historical core of the ensemble in the XVIII and XIX centuries |
| ArticleAuthor | Belov A. A. |
| ArticleName | Notes about natural stone in the fountain constructions of Peterhof, or Walk across Lower park with fountain master |
| ArticleAuthor | Yershova N. I. |
| ArticleName | Natural stone in interior at Peter the Great times |
| ArticleAuthor | Kalnitskaya E. Ya. |
| ArticleName | Colour stone of Alexandria |
| ArticleAuthor | Tenikhina V. M. |
| ArticleName | Marble fountain of the Cottage terrace |
| ArticleAuthors | Kolotov M. G., Khaykina L. V. |
| ArticleName | Carrara marble (photoproject) |
| ArticleAuthor | E. Ya. Kalnitskaya and V. Ya. Yumangulov’s comment |
| ArticleName | Upon the monuments of the garden at the grand dukes’ house in Alexandria |
| ArticleAuthor | Yumangulov V. Ya. |
| ArticleName | «Magic marble» |
| ArticleAuthor | Syasina T. S. |
| ArticleName | The Chinese panels in finishing of an interior of the Small office of Pavel I in the Chinese palace |
| ArticleAuthor | Surkova T. O. |
| Peterhof lapidary factory | |
| ArticleName | Pages of history of the Peterhof lapidary factory. To the publication in the «World Illustration» magazine |
| ArticleAuthor | Trubanovskaya M. V. |
| ArticleName | Baptismal casket from the Special Treasury (photoproject) |
| ArticleAuthor | N. B. Bulanaya’s comment |
| ArticleName | From a saw mill to а watch factory |
| ArticleAuthor | Maksimova A. A. |
| ArticleName | To the history of creation of the mosaic console from the Bugle office of the Chinese palace in Oranienbaum, 1767–1769 |
| ArticleAuthor | Kondratenko M. Ye. |
| ArticleName | State Peterhof lapidary factory in the past, present and future (Extracts from the edition of 1921) |
| ArticleAuthors | Fersman A. Ye., Vlodavets N. I. |
| Peterhof collections | |
| ArticleName | Silver with a monogram «ON» under the imperial crown. Dowry of great princess Olga Nikolayevna — the queen of Wurttemberg |
| ArticleAuthor | Nosovich T. N. |
| ArticleName | Tabletopsscagliolas in the collection of the Peterhof Museum Complex |
| ArticleAuthor | Kislitsyna O. S. |
| ArticleName | Snuffboxcalendar from the cоllection of the Peterhof Museum Complex |
| ArticleAuthor | Tikhova I. A. |
| ArticleName | «Wonderful stones» and their keepers (playing cards from the Peterhof Museum Complex) |
| ArticleAuthor | Zakharova O. A. |
| ArticleName | E. A. Lansere's sculpture from bronze and cast iron in the Benois Family Museum |
| ArticleAuthor | Yelistratova S. Yu. |
| ArticleName | Grand duke Alexander Nikolayevich at a malachite giant monolith |
| ArticleAuthor | Stark V. P. |
| ArticleName | «… In memory of his tenyear service in iron mines…» |
| ArticleAuthor | Bulanaya N. B. |
| In restoration workshop | |
| ArticleName | Peterhof museums clock’s collections. Restoration experience |
| ArticleAuthor | Gerasimenko E. G. |
| ArticleName | Restoration of clock with musical mechanism |
| ArticleAuthor | Kh. Tuchkovskiy |
| ArticleName | Empire style clock of Nikolay II |
| ArticleAuthor | B. Shmeltser |
| ArticleName | Decorative ornaments of the palace Marly ladder and balcony lattices |
| ArticleAuthor | Kholodnova O. A. |
| ArticleName | Zinc sculptures and their destiny |
| ArticleAuthors | Demidov A. I., Papirovskiy A. A. |
| ArticleName | History of the semiprecious map |
| ArticleAuthor | Igdalov B. P. |
