Ertel´, A. D. [V. G. M.] Negel´, N.P., photographer	Sobor Sv[iatago] kniazia Vladimira v Kievie. Izdanie S. V. Kul´zhenko v Kievie. Sto piat´illiustratsii v tekste i sorok dvie illuiustratsii na otdel´nykh listakh. Kiev, [Tipografiia S.V. Kul´zhenko,] 1898. 137 p., 152 high resolution color and b/w ills., 42 high resolution color and half tone plates.	€4800

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Elephant Folio (340 mm x 250 mm), publisher´s binding with embossed color and gilt ornamental and pictorial design.Floral ornamenta fly-leaves in the style of Gilt tooled design on the spine. Clophones designed by Viktor Vasnetsov. Deluxe edition. Very good. By some book historians and designers this album considered to be the very first book printed in Russia with elemets of Modern (Модерн) movement in book design. Fly-leaves are executed in a peculiar mixture of Art Nouveau style, Jugendstil and Secession. The 'incunabula' of Russian Modern (Модерн) style ( probably named after Parisian gallery 'La Maison Moderne'). A reaction to academic art of the 19th century, it was inspired by natural forms and structures, not only in flowers and plants but also in curved lines.[ ...]- adopted description from Wikipedia. The album can be considered as one of the major art publication on the turn of XX century. A desired item for collectors of Russian art albums. Still the best and major album on Kiev´s St.Vladimir Cathedral.'St Volodymyr's Cathedral (Ukrainian: Патріарший кафедральний собор св. Володимира, Russian: Кафедральный собор Святого Владимира, Владимирский собор; also known as the Volodymyrsky Cathedral, Vladimirsky Cathedral, or St. Vladimir's Cathedral) is a cathedral in the centre of Kiev. It is one of the city's major landmarks and the mother cathedral of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kiev Patriarchy, one of two major Ukrainian Orthodox Churches. In 1852, Metropolitan Philaret of Moscow suggested a large cathedral should be built in Kiev to commemorate the 900th anniversary of the baptism of Kievan Rus' by prince Vladimir (Volodymyr) the Great of Kiev (St. Vladimir). People from all over the Russian Empire started donating to this cause, so that by 1859 the cathedral fund had amassed a huge sum of 100,000 rubles. The Kiev Pechersk Lavra (Monastery of the Caves) produced one million bricks and presented them to the cathedral as well. The design was executed in neo-Byzantine style initially by the architects I. Schtrom, P. Sparro, R. Bemhardt, K. Mayevsky, V. Nikolayev. The final version of the design belongs to Alexander Vikentievich Beretti. It is a traditional six-piered, three-apsed temple crowned by seven cupolas. The height to the cross of the main dome is 49 m (161 ft).'[...] Mosaics were executed by masters from Venice. Frescoes were created under the guidance of Professor Andrei V. Prakhov by a group of famous painters: S. Kostenko, V. Kotarbinsky, Mikhail Nesterov, M. Pymonenko, P. Swedomsky, Viktor Vasnetsov, Mikhail Vrubel, V. Zamyraylo, and others' - Adopted from Wikipedia. Not in MoMa See: Makaryk, Irena R., Tkacz, Virlana Modernism in Kiev: Kyiv/Kyïv/Kiev/Kijów/Ḳieṿ : Jubilant Experimentation. Toronto, Toronto University Press, 2010;Velychko, Viktoriia Kyiv Kul´zhenkiv [Київ Кульженків] Kyiv, VARTO, 2010. Mosaics were executed by masters from Venice. Frescoes were created under the guidance of Professor A. Prakhov by a group of famous painters: S. Kostenko, V. Kotarbinsky, Mikhail Nesterov, M. Pymonenko, P. Swedomsky, Viktor Vasnetsov, Mikhail Vrubel, V. Zamyraylo, and others. The painting of the Holy Mother of God by Vasnetsov in the altar apse of the cathedral impresses by its austere beauty.[citation needed]