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A History of Russian Architecture

William Craft Brumfield

Since its initial publication in 1993, A History of Russian Architecture has
remained the most comprehensive study of the topic in English, a volume that
defines the main components and sources for Russia's architectural
traditions in their historical context, from the early medieval period to
the present. This edition includes 80 new full-page color separations, many
of which are published here for the first time, as well as a new Prologue
and elegant photographic essay drawn from the author's research and
fieldwork over the past decade in remote areas of the Russian north and
Siberia.

Subject to influences from east and west, Russian architecture's distinctive
approaches to building are documented in four parts of this definitive
study: early medieval Rus up to the Mongol invasion in the mid-twelfth
century; the revival of architecture in Novgorod and Muscovy from the
fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries; Peter the Great's cultural
revolution, which extended through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries;
and the advent of modern, avant-garde, and monumental Soviet architecture.
Beautifully illustrated and carefully researched, A History of Russian
Architecture provides an invaluable cultural history that will be of
interest to scholars and general audiences alike.

William Craft Brumfield is professor of Russian studies at Tulane
University. He is the author of Lost Russia and The Origins of Modernism in
Russian Architecture, among other books, and a member of the Russian Academy
of Architecture and Construction Sciences.

Table of Contents:
  Prologue to the 2004 Edition
  Acknowledgments
  Author's Note
  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 Moscovite Period
  5. Moscow: Architectural Beginnings
  6. The Ascent of Architecture in Moscovy
  7. The Seventeenth Century: From Ornamentalism to the New Age

  Part III: The Turn to Western Forms
  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
  Appendix I. Russian Wooden Architecture
  Appendix II. Illustrated Architectural Elements
  Notes
  Bibliography
  Index

View the William C. Brumfield Russian Architecture Collection online at
http://depts.washington.edu/ceir/brumfield