A History of Russian Architecture

by Brumfield, William Craft

• ISBN13: 9780295983936
• ISBN10: 0295983930
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-07-01
• Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr

Summary

Since its initial publication in 1993, A History of Russian Architecture has remained the most comprehensive study of the topic in English, a volume that defines the main components and sources for Russia's architectural traditions in their historical context, from the early medieval period to the present. This edition includes a new prologue and an elegant photographic essay drawn from the author's research and fieldwork over the past decade in remote areas of the Russian north and Siberia. Subject to influences from east and west, Russian architecture's distinctive approaches to building are documented in four parts of this definitive 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 the seventeenth centuries; Peter the Great's cultural revolution, which extended through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; and the advent of modern, avant-garde, and monumental Soviet architecture. Beautifully illustrated and carefully researched, A History of Russian Architecture provides an invaluable cultural history that will be of interest to scholars and general audiences alike.

Author Biography

William Craft Brumfield is professor of Russian studies at Tulane University.

Table of Contents

Prologue to the 2004 edition
Acknowledgments
Author's note
Introduction	p. 1
Early medieval architecture
Kiev and Chernigov	p. 9
Novgorod and Pskov : eleventh to thirteenth centuries	p. 26
Vladimir and Suzdal before the Mongol invasion	p. 43
The revival of architecture in Novgorod and Pskov	p. 64
The Muscovite period
Moscow : architectural beginnings	p. 83
The ascent of architecture in Muscovy	p. 107
The seventeenth century : from ornamentalism to the new age	p. 141
The turn to western forms
The foundations of the Baroque in Saint Petersburg	p. 201
The late Baroque in Russia : the age of Rastrelli	p. 228
Neoclassicism in Petersburg : the age of Catherine the great	p. 261
Eighteenth-century neoclassicism in Moscow and the provinces	p. 303
The early nineteenth century : Alexandrine neoclassicism	p. 348
The formation of modern Russian architecture
Nineteenth-century historicism and eclecticism	p. 393
Modernism during the early twentieth century	p. 425
Revolution and reaction in Soviet architecture	p. 467
Russian wooden architecture	p. 501
Illustrated architectural elements	p. 521
Notes	p. 527
Bibliography	p. 612
Index	p. 633
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