Main entry:

Massie, Suzanne, author.

Title & Author:

Pavlovsk : the life of a Russian palace / by Suzanne Massie.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Boston : Little, Brown, [1990]
©1990

Description:

xx, 394 pages, 64 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-378) and index.
First years -- The Count and Countess of the North -- The palace is built -- Andrei Voronykhin -- Gardens and Gonzaga -- Last years -- Musical Pavlovsk -- Call me Commissar -- To the last chandelier -- Anatoly Mikhailovich -- Destroy St. Petersburg! -- We are Barbarians -- Siberia -- The siege -- What they found -- Confronting the unconfrontable -- The search -- We will restore -- Beauty will save the world -- Appendix : List of those who restored the palace.
British Library not licensed to copy 0.

Summary:

Created by Catherine the Great's son and his wife, Maria Feodorovna, in the late eighteenth century, Pavlovsk became a repository for all that was beautiful in the arts during Russia's golden age. Located twenty-six miles south of St. Petersburg (now Leningrad), Pavlovsk remained a residence of members of the Russian imperial family until 1915, as well as a beloved park and concert site until the Second World War. During the nine-hundred-day siege of Leningrad, The Nazis used Pavlovsk as a military headquarters. They looted and destroyed whatever they found, cut down seventy thousand trees in the park, and when they were forced to retreat, burned the palace beyond recognition. Barely recovered from the horrors of the siege, and while the war was still being waged, a group of dedicated museum specialists, helped by thousands of citizens, determined to restore Pavlovsk to its original splendor.--Publisher description.

ISBN:

0316549703
9780316549707
0340487909 (Hodder & Stoughton)
9780340487907

Subject:

Cameron, Charles 1743-1812
Pavlovskiĭ dvoret︠s︡-muzeĭ History.
Pavlovskij dvorec-muzej Histoire.
Pavlovskiĭ dvoret︠s︡-muzeĭ
Museum of Late 18th Century Palatial Design
Pawlowsk Museum of Late 18th Century Palatial Design.
Neoclassicism (Architecture) Russia (Federation) Pavlovsk (Leningradskai︠a︡ oblastʹ)
Néoclassicisme (Architecture) Russie Pavlovsk (Saint-Pétersbourg, Russie)
Buildings
Neoclassicism (Architecture)
Geschichte
Pavlovsk (Leningradskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia) Buildings, structures, etc.
Pavlovsk (Saint-Pétersbourg, Russie) Constructions.
Russia (Federation) Pavlovsk (Leningradskai︠a︡ oblastʹ)
Sommerresidenz Pawlowsk
Pawlowsk Sommerresidenz.

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 57062
Call No.: ID:90-B5378
Status: Available