A History of Russian Architecture
A History of Russian Architecture
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The most comprehensive study of this subject to date, A History of Russian Architecture surveys Russian building from the masonry churches of tenth-century Kievan Rus to the pre-fabricated built environments of the present. Subject to cultural and stylistic influences from both East and West, Russian architecture nonetheless developed its own distinctive approaches to building, as demonstrated in the four parts of the study: early medieval Rus up to the Mongol invasion in the mid-twelfth century; the revival of architecture in Novgorod and Muscovy from the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries; the cultural revolution in architecture in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; and the advent of modern architecture. Analysing stylistic developments within their historical contexts, this volume serves as a rich cultural history that will be invaluable to scholars and general readers alike.
- A cultural history of Russia, as well as an architectural history of Russia
- Very good quality production, lots of colour, good paper, bright four-colour jacket
- Lavishly illustrated volume covering history of Russian architecture from the Middle Ages to the present
- Author well known - the expert in this area
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'Once in a great while, a book appears that both defines a scholarly discipline and sets a research agenda for the foreseeable future. Such a book is Brumfield's present work.' Choice
Product details
September 1993Hardback
9780521403337
656 pages
288 × 223 × 47 mm
2.735kg
677 b/w illus. 80 colour illus.
Unavailable - out of print April 2001
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. Early Medieval Architecture:
- 1. Kiev and Chernigov
- 2. Novgorod and Pskov: eleventh to thirteenth centuries
- 3. Vladimir and Suzdal before the Mongol invasion
- 4. The revival of architecture in Novgorod and Pskov
- Part II. The Muscovite Period:
- 5. Moscow: architectural beginnings
- 6. The ascent of architecture in Muscovy
- 7. The seventeenth century: from ornamentalism to the new age
- 8. The foundations of the Baroque in Saint Petersburg
- 9. The late baroque in Russia: the age of Rastrelli
- 10. Neoclassicism in Petersburg: the age of Catherine the Great
- 11. Eighteenth-century neoclassicism in Moscow and the provinces
- 12. The early nineteenth century: Alexandrine neoclassicism
- Part IV. The Formation of Modern Russian Architecture:
- 13. Nineteenth-century historicism and eclecticism
- 14. Modernism during the early twentieth century
- 15. Revolution and reaction in Soviet architecture
- Appendices
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
