A History of Russian Architecture

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Since its initial publication in 1993, A History of Russian Architecture has remained essentially the most comprehensive study of the topic in English, a volume that defines the principle 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 that are published here for the first time, in addition to a new Prologue and elegant photographic essay drawn from the creator’s research and fieldwork over the last 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 as much as the Mongol invasion within 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 up to date, avant-garde, and monumental Soviet architecture. Beautifully illustrated and carefully researched, A History of Russian Architecture provides an invaluable cultural history so one can be of interest to scholars and general audiences alike.

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

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