Trudy Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha LX - Problemy okhrany, issledovaniya i restavratsii pamyatnikov kul'tury = Transactions of the State Hermitage Museum LX: Seminar on Architecture and Archaeology - The Problems of Conservation, Research and Restoration of Cultural Monuments

Saint Petersburg: Hermitage, 2012. Softcover. VG- (Clean, bright and tight but for a bit of light general shelf wear). Glossy apricot wraps with color image and black lettering. 418 pp. with color and bw images peppered throughout text. Text in Russian with brief summaries in English. Based upon the proceedings of two conferences held in January 2006 and in April 2007 on the occasion of the centenary birth of Academician Dmitry Likhachev. "The publication is devoted to topical issues of preservation of the cultural heritage of the past. It contains articles of specialists in different branches of science, archaeologists, restorers, architects of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, France. They all share concern about the fate of cultural heritage in the world today. In recent decades, especially in countries of the former USSR, has undergone profound changes in the system of the restoration work, which, unfortunately, often poses a threat to the monuments. The book contains articles that examines the experience of restoration and museification individual objects of cultural heritage, publishes the results of research sites. It is well known that the issue of preservation of cultural heritage occupied a special place in the works of Academician DS Likhachev. Therefore, this collection was dedicated to the 100 anniversary of the scientist, it was composed of materials of the conference devoted to this date, held at the State Hermitage Museum in 2006 and 2007." Twenty different articles with summaries of each.