Main entry:

Brumfield, William C. (William Craft), 1944-

Title & Author:

A history of Russian architecture / text and photographs by William Craft Brumfield.

Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Description:

644 pages, 80 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 612-631) and index.
Kiev and Chernigov -- Novgorod and Pskov: eleventh to thirteenth centuries -- Vladimir and Suzdal before the Mongol Invasion -- The revival of architecture in Novgorod and Pskov -- Moscow: architectural beginnings -- The ascent of architecture in Muscovy -- The seventeenth century: from ornamentalism to the new age -- The foundations of the Baroque in Saint Petersburg -- The Late Baroque in Russia: the age of Rastrelli -- Neoclassicism in Petersberg: the age of Catherine the Great -- Eighteenth century Neoclassicism in Moscow and the provinces -- The early nineteenth century: Alexandrine Neoclassicism -- Nineteenth century historicism and electicism -- Modernism durning the early twentieth century -- Revolution and reaction in Soviet architecture.

Summary:

Looks at the development of Russian architecture, from the masonry churches of tenth-century Kievan Rus to the prefabricated built environments of the present. Includes early medieval Rus up to the Mongol invasion in the midtwelfth century; the revival of architecture in Novgorod and Muscovy from the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries; the cultural revolution of architecture during the reigns of Peter the Great and his successors in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; and the advent of modern architecture, ranging from the colorful eclecticism of the nineteenth century to the rigorous experiments in avant-garde design of the early twentieth century, which were followed by a return to monumental eclecticism in the Soviet period.

ISBN:

0521403332
9780521403337

Subject:

Architecture Russia History.
Architecture Russie Histoire.
Architecture.
Russia.
Architecture History

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 92221
Call No.: ID:93-B620
Status: Available