A history of Russian architecture

Abstract

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.