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The holy place : architecture, ideology, and history in Russia

Title

The holy place : architecture, ideology, and history in Russia / Konstantin Akinsha and Grigorij Kozlov ; with Sylvia Hochfield.

Author

Akinsha, Konstantin

Publication

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description

xii, 212 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 25 cm

Summary

"This book surveys two centuries of Russian history through a succession of ambitious architectural projects designed for a single construction site in central Moscow. Czars, Bolshevik rulers, and contemporary Russian leaders alike have dreamed of glorious monuments to themselves and their ideologies on this site, The history of their efforts reflects the story of the nation itself and its repeated attempts to construct or reconstruct its identity and to repudiate or resuscitate emblems of the past. The book explores each project intended for this ideologically charged site and documents with fifty-nine illustrations the grand projects that were built as well as those that were only dreamed."--Jacket.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-201) and index.

Contents

Vitberg's cathedral -- Ton's cathedral -- The last days of the cathedral -- The tower of Babel -- The concrete cathedral.

ISBN

9780300110272
0300110278

LCCN

2007012616

OCLC

ocn122337987
122337987
SCSB-1444539

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library