A History of Russian Architecture

by Brumfield, William Craft

• ISBN13: 9780521403337
• ISBN10: 0521403332
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-07-01
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Early Medieval Architecture

Kiev and Chernigov

Novgorod and Pskov: eleventh to thirteenth centuries

Vladimir and Suzdal before the Mongol invasion

The revival of architecture in Novgorod and Pskov

The Muscovite Period

Moscow: architectural beginnings

The ascent of architecture in Muscovy

The seventeenth century: from ornamentalism to the new age

The foundations of the Baroque in Saint Petersburg

The late baroque in Russia: the age of Rastrelli

Neoclassicism in Petersburg: the age of Catherine the Great

Eighteenth-century neoclassicism in Moscow and the provinces

The early nineteenth century: Alexandrine neoclassicism

The Formation of Modern Russian Architecture

Nineteenth-century historicism and eclecticism

Modernism during the early twentieth century

Revolution and reaction in Soviet architecture

Appendices

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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