Expedition Silk Road

By Birgit Boelens, Arnoud Bijl

"The legendary Silk Road existed long before the birth of Christ. It was not a single highway but a great web of trade routes. Until the 15th century the Silk Road was the largest trading network i...

Catherine, the Greatest

By Peter Wezel, Yury Efimov, David McKay, Catherine Phillips, Trudie Stoppelenburg, Arnoud Bijl, Swetlana Datsenko, Vincent Boele, Natalia Guseva, Vyacheslav Fyodorov, E. P. Renne, Aai Prins, S. Androsov

Catherine the Greatest

By Peter Wezel, Yury Efimov, David McKay, Trudie Stoppelenburg, Catherine Phillips, Arnoud Bijl, Swetlana Datsenko, Vincent Boele, Natalia Guseva, Vyacheslav Fyodorov, E. P. Renne, Aai Prins, S. Androsov

Russian avant garde

By G. Vilinbakhov, Arnoud Bijl, Marina Bliumin

" The Russian avant-gardes, which most famously included artists Kazimir Malevich and Wassily Kandinsky, became known for their radical innovations in painting. But they also devoted themselves to...

Rubens Van Dyck Jordaens

By Natalia Babina, Arnoud Bijl

This book gives an excellent overview of Flemish art from the Hermitage in St Petersburg. A large proportion was acquired in the eighteenth century by Catherine the Great, from superb collections s...

Alexander, Napoleon & Josephine

By David McKay, I. D. Ermolaev, G. Vilinbakhov, Arnoud Bijl, Vincent Boele

"Three great names on the European stage at the beginning of the nineteenth century. With their conflict and friendship, two emperors, Tsar Alexander I and Napoleon Bonaparte, determined the fate o...

Alexander Napoleon Josephine

By David McKay, I. D. Ermolaev, G. Vilinbakhov, Arnoud Bijl, Vincent Boele

"Three great names on the European stage at the beginning of the nineteenth century. With their conflict and friendship, two emperors, Tsar Alexander I and Napoleon Bonaparte, determined the fate o...