Награждение состоялось в рамках Второго международного книжного фестиваля «Красная строка» в Екатеринбурге.
The awards ceremony was held as part of the Second LINEA RUBRA/ Krasnaya Stroka International Book Festival in Yekaterinburg. Victory in the “Album of the Year” category was shared between two publications from the Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts about exhibitions of works from the stocks of the State Hermitage Museum timed to mark Yekaterinburg’s 300th anniversary. In all, 58 books from 14 publishing houses were entered in 11 different categories.
The catalogue of the exhibition “Catherine I – Heiress to the Causes of Peter the Great” contains texts about Peter and Catherine as well as annotated illustrations of selected exhibits. The texts are by State Hermitage researchers Natalia Guseva, Sergei Nilov, Nikolai Onegin and Grigory Yastrebinsky. The exhibition featured some 150 unique items from the stocks of the Hermitage. They formed the basis for a narrative about the life and deeds of Empress Catherine I, in whose honour the city of Yekaterinburg was named 300 years ago.
Another major exhibition – “A Capital Panorama. Saint Petersburg in Works of the 18th to Early 20th Centuries from the Collection of the State Hermitage” was devoted to images of Saint Petersburg. The catalogue presents illustrations of more than 170 works of painting, graphic art, sculpture and applied art, clothing and weapons. With these examples, visitors were able to trace the evolution of the Northern Palmyra’s appearance across more than two centuries, from the time of its foundation in 1703 to the first quarter of the 20th century, when the history of Leningrad began.
Saint Petersburg and Yekaterinburg, two cities founded at the behest of Peter I, are linked by 300 years of history. The appearance, just twenty years apart, of two great administrative, industrial and cultural centres heralded the birth of the Russian Empire.
