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I. Between Byzantine and Romanesque : A choice of faith and a choice of architecture -- The architecture of Kievan Rus': the emergence of a model for sacred -- buildings -- Romanesque in north-eastern Rus': the architecture of Vladimir: -- historical context -- The earliest cathedrals of north-eastern Rus' -- The churches of Andrey Bogolyubsky and the Lombard masters -- The Cathedral of St Demetrius and the depiction of Paradise -- St George's Cathedral in Yur'yev-Pol'sky: an encyclopedia of Russian -- Romanesque -- The Mongol invasion and the absence of Gothic -- The beginnings of Moscow architecture -- II. The Moscow Renaissance : Byzantine masters in Renaissance Italy and Moscow -- The prospects of a Moscow "renaissance" -- Foreigners' accounts of new buildings in Moscow at the turn of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries -- Aristotele Fioravanti and Filarete -- Aristotele Fioravanti in Italy -- Fioravanti, Cardinal Vissarion and Semyon Tolbuzin -- The architectural programme of the Cathedral of the Dormition in the Moscow Kremlin and the "early Greek piety laid down by God" -- The building of Fioravanti's Cathedral of the Dormition -- Russian, Italian and Byzantine features in the Cathedral of the Dormition -- The Solari building dynasty in Milan and Moscow -- The late fifteenth-century Lombard fortifications and grand princes' palace in the Kremlin -- Alevisio Lamberti da Montagnana and the burial-place of the princes of Moscow -- Moscow traditional architecture in the Renaissance period -- The symbolism of the Third Rome: Vasily III and the Church of the Ascension in Kolomenskoye -- III. Post-Byzantine "Mannerism" in Muscovite state : Post-Byzantine "Mannerism"? The stylistic features of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Russian architecture -- St Basil's Cathedral and the architectural tastes of Ivan the Terrible -- The meaning of St Basil's Cathedral -- New tower-form and traditional churches in the second half of the sixteenth century -- English architects at the court of Ivan the Terrible -- The reign of Boris Godunov: tradition and a new wave of Italianisms -- The architecture of the first of the Romanovs and Christopher Galloway -- The architecture of Alexis Mikhaylovich -- |
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IV. Russian Imperial Baroque : Peter the Great's architectural reforms -- Architectural "manners" in Moscow in the early Petrine era -- The founding of St Petersburg and the transformation of Moscow: the image of a new empire -- Peter the Great's foreign architects: -- Baroque St Petersburg -- The birth of Russian Imperial Baroque -- The style of Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli -- V. The Russian Enlightenment : "Legislomania" and the architectural utopia of Catherine the Great -- Jean-Baptiste-Michel Vallin de la Mothe and the emergence of Russian Neoclassicism -- Antonio Rinaldi and the brief life of Russian Rococo -- Russian pupils of Charles de Wailly: the return of Vasily Bazhenov and Ivan Starov -- Catherine the Great's architectural programme for Moscow: Vasily Bazhenov, Matvey Kazakov and Nicolas Legrand -- The revival of Antiquity and Palladianism: Charles-Louis Clérisseau, Charles Cameron, Giacomo Quarenghi and Nikolay L'vov -- Town and country in the Age of Enlightenment -- Architecture and politics in the last years of the reign of Catherine the Great -- VI. The European Century : Neoclassicism, the Russian style and eclecticism -- Vincenzo Brenna and the architectural fate of Paul I -- The "Rome Prize" style in St Petersburg in the reign of Alexander I -- Moscow after the fire of 1812: Iosif Bove and Domenico Gilardi -- Vying with ancient Rome: The St Petersburg of Karl Rossi, Vasily Stasov and Auguste-Ricard de Montferrand -- Utopia in Neoclassical garb: William Hastie model planning system -- From Gothic Revival to Russian style -- Alexander II and Alexander III: an era of retrospection -- Russian Art Nouveau and Neoclassical nostalgia on the eve of revolution -- VII. The Soviet and Post-Soviet Eras : The architecture of Soviet Russia and the West -- The Soviet Neoclassical Revival and its replacement by industrialized architecture -- Architecture of the Post-Soviet era. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-419) and index. |
| Language | Translated from the Russian. |
| LCCN | 2006100424 |
| ISBN | 0300109121 (cl : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780300109122 (cl : alk. paper) |
