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Research work

The central theme of my research is the artistic glassmaking of Russia: its history, its masters, its past achievements and current trends.

The range of subjects is wide: from stained glass in Russian Orthodox churches to glass in the pavilions of VDNKh, from the altarpiece of St Isaac’s Cathedral to the Crystal Fountain of 1939. My interests also include the attribution, restoration and re-creation of historic stained glass, along with methods for its inventory and state protection. I regularly present papers at academic and practice-oriented conferences, publish in peer-reviewed journals, and lecture at museums and public venues.

Below is a list of some of my publications. The badge Read ↗ leads to the full text on an external resource; the badge Buy leads to a digital goods platform.

Monographs and books

• 2024Stained Glass of St Petersburg: An Inventory, 2019–2024. Central District (Vitrazhi Sankt-Peterburga) / compiled and academically edited by T. V. Knyazhitskaya. — St Petersburg, 2024. Buy
• 2022Stained Glass of St Petersburg: An Inventory. Admiralteysky District / compiled and academically edited by T. V. Knyazhitskaya. — St Petersburg, 2022. Buy
• 2021Stained Glass of St Petersburg: An Inventory, 2019–2020. Petrogradsky District / compiled and academically edited by T. V. Knyazhitskaya. — St Petersburg, 2021. Buy
• 2021Stained Glass of St Petersburg: An Inventory, 2019–2020. Vasilyevsky Island / compiled and academically edited by T. V. Knyazhitskaya. — St Petersburg, 2021. Buy
• 2020Knyazhitskaya, T. V. The Artist Vladimir Swertschkoff: Son of Four Homelands. A monograph / T. V. Knyazhitskaya. — Moscow: Staraya Basmannaya, 2020. — 200 pp.
• 2019Knyazhitskaya, T. V. Stained Glass in Russia: Episodes of History (Vitrazhi v Rossii). Issue 1. — St Petersburg, 2019. — 180 pp. Buy
• 2019Knyazhitskaya, T. V. Stained Glass in Russia: Episodes of History. Issue 2. — St Petersburg, 2019. — 200 pp. Buy
• 2018Knyazhitskaya, T. V. Alexander Levchenkov. Maria Molodykh: a monograph on the work of two contemporary painters / T. V. Knyazhitskaya. — Moscow: Bely Gorod, 2018. — 200 pp. — (Russian Tradition series).
• 2006Knyazhitskaya, T. V. Stained Glass of St Petersburg: a monograph / T. V. Knyazhitskaya. — St Petersburg: Dmitry Bulanin, 2006. — 114 pp.: ill.

Selected articles

• 2026Vasilyev S. G., Knyazhitskaya T. V. The Stained Glass of St Petersburg: From Inventory to Conservation Practice // Terra Artis. Art and Design. 2026. No. 1. Read ↗
• 2025Knyazhitskaya T. V., Vorobyov D. E. The Stained Glass of the Lithuanian SSR Pavilion at VDNKh: History, Key Discoveries and Materials for Re-creation // Terra Artis. Fine Art and Architecture. 2025. No. 1. Read ↗
• 2025Knyazhitskaya T. V., Vorobyov D. E. The Stained Glass of the Moscow Region Pavilion at VSKhV: From Its Creation to the Present Day // Terra Artis. Fine Art and Architecture. 2025. No. 4. Read ↗
• 2025Knyazhitskaya T. V. The Glass Bas-Relief “Partisan Woman” for the Palace of the Soviets: From the History of Soviet Architectural Glass of the 1930s to Early 1950s // Historical Motifs in Art Glass. Proceedings of the Glazier’s Day conference. — St Petersburg: Kirov Central Park of Culture and Leisure, 2025. Read ↗
• 2024Knyazhitskaya T. V., Vorobyov D. E. The Crystal Fountain for the New York World’s Fair: The History of Its Creation and Subsequent Fate. New Discoveries // The Legacy of Baron A. L. Stieglitz’s Central School of Technical Drawing: The Continuing Life of Its Traditions. On the 210th Anniversary of the Birth of A. L. Stieglitz: a collective monograph / edited by A. I. Bartenev and G. E. Prokhorenko; compiled by A. S. Yergina. — St Petersburg: Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design, 2024.
• 2023Knyazhitskaya T. V. Decorative Architectural Glass in Russia in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: Range, Terminology, Uses // Falconnier. The Architecture of Light. — Moscow: Kuchkovo Pole Muzeon, 2023.
• 2022Bass N. I., Knyazhitskaya T. V. The Artist Alexander Fyodorovich Pernitz (1809–1881): Materials for a Biography // 79th All-Russian Scientific and Technical Conference “Traditions and Innovations in Construction and Architecture”. Proceedings. — Samara: Samara State Technical University, 2022. Read ↗
• 2019Knyazhitskaya T. V. Visionary Art: The Symbolism of the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries // Academy. No. 6 (45), 2019.
• 2015Knyazhitskaya T. V. Vladimir Grishaev, the First Stained Glass Artist of Chuvashia // Culture and Art (electronic journal). No. 2 (26), 2015. Read ↗
• 2015Knyazhitskaya T. V. Stained Glass of the Imperial Glass Factory in the Nineteenth Century // Glass of Eastern Europe from Antiquity to the Early Twentieth Century: a collection of articles / compiled by E. K. Stolyarova. — St Petersburg: Nestor-Istoriya, 2015. Read ↗
• 2014Knyazhitskaya T. V. “Other Stained Glass”: Leonid Polishchuk and Svetlana Shcherbinina // Art Glass and Stained Glass. Issue 8. — Moscow, 2014. Read ↗
• 2012Volodina A., Knyazhitskaya T. The Return of Saint Cecilia // Moscow Journal: The History of the Russian State. No. 2 (254), February 2012. Read ↗
• 2009Knyazhitskaya T. V. Two Images, Two Eras: Stained Glass after Drawings by N. A. Bruni in the Collections of the State Museum of the History of St Petersburg and the Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts // Antikvariat. No. 6–8 (68), 2009. Read ↗
• 2001Knyazhitskaya T. V., Semyonova A. B. The Glass Empire of the Franks // Germans in Russia: The Russian-German Dialogue: a collection of articles / edited by G. I. Smagina. — St Petersburg: Dmitry Bulanin, 2001. Read ↗

A full bibliography — more than 50 works since 1994 — is available on request. A substantial number of the articles are published on the Stained Glass in Russia portal.