Япония в России: Коллекционирование японского искусства в России в конце XIX - начале XX вв. и последующая судьба этих собраний

M. : Первый Том, 2019.

Academic editor: Steiner E. S.

Compiler: Katsnelson G.

The book Japan in Russia: Collecting Japanese art in Russia in the 19th - early 20th centuries and the subsequent fate of these collections consists of articles that were written on the basis of papers and other materials of the academic conference “Collecting Japanese art in Russia in the last 19th and the early 20th centuries” held on 22 February 2019 (Moscow, Russia) in the School of Asian Studies of National Research University ‘Higher School of Economics’. The interest in Japanese art and culture emerged and became wide-spread in Russia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Many people from different walks of life, such as nobility, gentry, merchants, professionals, and men of arts and letters were eager to buy and collect Japanese art objects.

The articles of the present book collection discuss various individual collectors and their former possessions as well as present-day holdings of different Russian museums in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Irkutsk, Samara, and Tomsk. Under the scrutiny are the history of formations of many Japanese art collections, biographies and post-revolutionary destiny (mostly tragic) of the collectors, problems of access, and mysteries of disappearance of many artifacts.

Chapters

Коллекция японского искусства Китаева: Что в ней было, чего не было и что от нее осталось

Steiner E. S., В кн.: Япония в России: Коллекционирование японского искусства в России в конце XIX - начале XX вв. и последующая судьба этих собраний.: М.: Первый Том, 2019. Гл. 9 С. 199–290.

The article tells about the Japanese art collector Sergey Kitaev (1864—1927) and his collection of woodblock prints and paintings, which was once the largest in Russia and possibly one of the largest private collections in Europe. A few years after the October Revolution of 1917 the Kitaev collection was nationalized and became part of the ...

Added: October 17, 2019

Предисловие

Steiner E. S., В кн.: Япония в России: Коллекционирование японского искусства в России в конце XIX - начале XX вв. и последующая судьба этих собраний.: М.: Первый Том, 2019. Гл. ) С. 6–7.

The Foreword to the book which introduces the situation with private prerevolutionary collections of Japanese at in Russia and the subsequent history of these collections after they were nationalized by the Soviet authorities. ...

Added: October 17, 2019

Keywords: коллекционирование, японское искусство, Japanese art, history of collections, Russian museums, Музеи России