The exhibition of "The Ten Commandments" ("Decalogue") book starts at the State Hermitage Museum on April, 25th, 2006.
Taleon. Club magazine. No 3 (13), July 2005
"Pushkin bound in fish skin" by Larisa Zorina.
Talented people with an obsession manage to live in defiance not only of everyday logic, but even of the laws of physics. To travel in time, for example. Just try going back, say, a century and a half! But some people do manage it. There is one precondition, though: you have to be devoted heart and soul to your case... continue
"Russian phoenix rising" by Natasha Singer.
When publisher Pyotr Suspitsyn invited me to tour the basement studio where he binds handprinted books, he told me to walk along a canal behind the State Hermitage Museum. I got lost several times among rows of pastel town houses until I crossed a narrow bridge and ended up at his doorstep. It hadn't occurred to Suspitsyn to tell me his building had a strip of land almost to itself... continue
"A Rare Book from St. Petersburg" by Valery Kislov.
That's the name of the one and the only publication house in Russia, which offers its readers an entire range of really unique books. The number of printed copies of each of these books does not exceed 25!.. continue
"A Russian Capitalist Abandons the Rat Race to Pursue a Lost Art" by Neela Banerjee.
When he seemed to have everything, Pyotr Suspitsyn felt only loss. Five years ago, Mr. Suspitsyn owned and ran a thriving import-export business and several restaurants in St. Petersburg, and he made plenty of money. But none of it quenched the spreading emptiness inside him. "At some point, I realized life is so short and fragile that you need to do something important... continue
"Books the internet could never delete" by Christa Lee Rock.
"Looking around me, I can't help but think how sad it would be if books were replaced by the technology of the television and the computer," said Georgy Vilinbanov, assistant director of the research division of The State Hermitage Museum. The occasion of Vilinbanov's pining was the opening Tuesday of the exhibit "The Art of Hand-Crafted Books" by Rare Book Publishers of St. Petersburg continue