Landmarks of Russian Architecture: A Photographic SurveyA comprehensive guide to Russian architecture, this volume is designed for students and other readers wishing to gain an understanding of the subject. |
Contents
Introductory Survey | 1 |
Russian Wooden Architecture | 9 |
Early Medieval Kiev | 31 |
11th14th Centuries | 37 |
11th13th Centuries | 49 |
15th16th Centuries | 65 |
The Seventeenth Century | 111 |
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Abramtsevo apse arcade Archangel Michael arches architects attached columns Baroque bays bell tower Boris and Gleb brick building built carved Cathedral of St Catherine Catherine Palace central chapels choir gallery Church of St complex construction corner cornice culminating cupola decorative dome Dormition Cathedral drum elements ensemble exterior flanking frescoes frieze Icon Intercession interior Ivan John the Baptist Kazan Khutyn Monastery Kiev Kizhi kokoshniki Kolomenskoe late limestone main facade main structure major masonry medieval Russian meters Monastery monuments Moscow Cathedral Moscow Church Moscow Kremlin motifs Muscovite neoclassical neoclassicism Nevsky Prospekt Nicholas Novgorod Novgorod Cathedral Novgorod Church Novodevichy Convent octagonal ornamental pediment Peterhof Petersburg piers pilasters portal portico Pskov Rastrelli's rebuilt refectory roof Rostov Russian architecture Savior seventeenth century Sophia South view Southeast view Southwest stucco style Suzdal tiers Transfiguration Trinity Tsarskoe Selo upper Vasily vaulting vertical visual Vladimir Vologda walls wooden zakomary