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The World of Fine Arts

Parkstone International is a cosmopolitan publishing house that specialises in fine art books covering a wide variety of subjects, from painting and photography to architecture, fashion, and religious art. Always with the aim of spreading interest in and knowledge of the world of art amongst a general audience, the varied subjects and content for the publications are carefully selected by expert editors, their chief aspiration being to bring the masterpieces of every relevant historical period to today's public in the most faithful and informed way.

THE GREAT HISTORY OF RUSSIAN BALLET

The first performers of Romeo and Juliet, Galina Ulanova and Konstantin Sergeyev, shown in the wedding scene. Oil painting by A. Sokolov

RUSSIAN PAINTING

Abraham Arkhipov, Laundry Workers, late 1890s. Oil on canvas, 91 x 70 cm, Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

THE RUSSIAN PAINTERS OF WATER

Ivan Aivazovsky, Battle in the Chios Channel on 24 June 1770, 1848. Oil on canvas, 194 x 186 cm. Aivazovsky National Art Gallery, Feodosia.

RUSSIAN ART

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