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The Petrine revolution in Russian architecture

Title: The Petrine revolution in Russian architecture / James Cracraft.
Author: Cracraft, James.
Publication: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©1988.

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Description

xxvi, 372 pages, 3 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps; 26 cm

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Note

Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

Bibliography: p. 357-364.

Contents

1. Introduction -- "The Birth of Architecture in Russia" -- The Larger Historical Context Problems -- 2. The Heritage in Contemporary European Eyes -- Moscow -- The Provinces -- Final Impressions -- In Retrospect -- 3. An Architecture in Crisis -- Churches and Houses -- Fortification and Town Planning -- Building and Brickmaking -- Case Histories -- 4. Moscow Baroque -- Moscow Baroque? -- Moscow Mannerism? -- Nationalist Assertions -- Ukranian and Belorussian Baroques -- Conclusions -- 5. Revolutionary Transitions -- Azov: New Fortification and Shipbuilding -- A Revolution in Military Architecture -- New Currents in Civil Architecture -- A Convergence of Taste Remodeling Moscow -- 6. Revolution Embodied: The Building of St. Petersburg -- The Tsar's Taste The European Masters -- Masters and Students -- Revolution by Decree -- Landscapes and Interiors -- 7. The Revolution in Contemporary European Eyes -- Initial Impressions -- F.C. Weber's "Description" -- Other Views -- Revolution Triumphant -- Postscript -- 8. Conclusion -- The Revolution Institutionalized -- From St. Petersburg to Moscow -- To the Provinces and Beyond -- Gallery of Plates.

ISBN

0226116646
9780226116648
0226116638
9780226116631
0226116611 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

87034293

OCLC

ocm17299712
17299712
SCSB-1706980

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library