Russian architecture History

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 80 new full-page color separations, many of which are published here for the first time, as well as a new Prologue and 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, provides an invaluable cultural history that will be of interest to scholars and general audiences alike.

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William Craft Brumfield is professor of Russian studies at Tulane University. He is the author of Lost Russia and The Origins of Modernism in Russian Architecture, among other books, and a member of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences.View the William C. Brumfield Russian Architecture Collection online at

Contents

Prologue to the 2004 Edition
Acknowledgments
Author's Note
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 Moscovite Period
5. Moscow: Architectural Beginnings
6. The Ascent of Architecture in Moscovy
7. The Seventeenth Century: From Ornamentalism to the New Age

Part III: The Turn to Western Forms
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