Synopses & Reviews
Review
"It is a pleasure to welcome William Craft Brumfield's massive and handsome new work....Lavishly illustrated with black and white photographs, sketches and color plates, it should relegate to well-deserved oblivion the condescending view that Russians have no architecture. In scope, information and visual beauty, Mr. Brumfield's book far surpasses the former English language mainstay." The New York Times Book Review"A History of Russian Architecture serves as a rich cultural history that will be invaluable to both scholars and the non-specialist general reader with an interest in Russian culture and history." Wisconsin Bookwatch
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 612-631) and index.
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.