Russian Art

by Tamara Talbot Rice

Paperback

Published January 1, 1949

About the author

Tamara Talbot Rice was a Russian then English art historian, writing on Byzantine, Russian and Central Asian art. Talbot Rice was born Elena Abelson, to Louisa Elizabeth Vilenkin and Israel Boris Abelevich Abelson, the latter a businessman and member of the Czar's financial administration, a privileged family which fled Russia in 1917. Married David Talbot Rice and worked with him during the late 1920s and 30s.

She began to publish after the second world war writing on Russian Art and Russian history as well as on the art and history of the Scythians, Seljuks, and Byzantines.