Oranienbaumskie tetradi: Petershtadt, dvorets Petra III, Kartinnyi dom, vypusk (Oranienbaum notebooks: Petershtadt, Palace of Peter III, Picture House)
St. Petersburg: Istoricheskaia illiustratsiia, 2018. More
From the time of its conversion to Christianity in the tenth century, the confederation of East Slavic principalities centered round Kyiv entered the cultural sphere of the Byzantine Empire. Builders from Constantinople erected the first churches, but soon the Byzantine influence nurtured a local Russian style. Russian masters working in the broad context of Byzantine art and hence the European artistic tradition attained an originality and superb artistic quality of their own. From its early period (tenth–twelfth c.), a rich architectural tradition developed through the medieval and Muscovite periods, the imperial period, and into the Soviet years. The ability of Russian patrons to use external models, often working with Western European architects, to create masterpieces distinguishes Russian architecture in every period. The monographs, handbooks, encyclopedias, and albums described below survey different periods, present scholarly research, and publish a great deal of visual documentation on a vital branch of world architecture.
St. Petersburg: Istoricheskaia illiustratsiia, 2018. More
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 1999. Sewn pb. Besides a hefty part of neoclassical palaces, civic buildings, and estates, the great Italian architect working in Russia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries designed grave monuments, garden structures, and sculptural pedestals, all elements of perfectly harmonious neoclassical ensembles. Thanks to Quarenghi's..... More
St. Petersburg: Stroiizdat, 1994, Sewn cl. Surveying Benois’s buildings and designs done from the 1830s to the 1890s, the author weighs his legacy, arguing for the originality of Benois’s combination of historical styles and at the same time using fresh elements of neoclassicism and art nouveau. 176 pp., 4 1/4..... More
St. Petersburg: Abris / Petergof, 2001. Saddle-stitched. St. Petersburg’s suburban ensembles are famous for their palaces designed and constructed by outstanding Western European and Russian architects. Often overlooked are the ancillary buildings, which, however, were designed by the same talented architects who did the famous palaces. This concise survey shows..... More
St. Petersburg: Abris / Petergof, 2001. Saddle-stitched. St. Petersburg’s suburban ensembles are famous for their palaces designed and constructed by outstanding Western European and Russian architects. Often overlooked are the ancillary buildings, which, however, were designed by the same talented architects who did the famous palaces. This concise survey shows..... More
St. Petersburg: Kolo, 2011 (1st ed. 1877). Sewn cl. This definitive study of the palace ensemble and surrounding town during the first century of its existence publishes a description of each element of the ensemble and traces the process of its creation, portraying the artists and patrons, their decisions that..... More
St. Petersburg: Genio Loci, 2007. 2nd revised and expanded. Sewn cl. Research in over fifteen archives has enabled the author to reconstruct the architectural history of sixty-six churches in the towns outside the imperial capital that were favorite sites of the Russian court. Some of the churches such as St..... More
St. Petersburg: Baltiiskaia zvezda. sewn. cl. The architect's name is familiar only to specialists but although many of his projects were destroyed or never realized, his role in shaping the architectural identity of St. Petersburg was quite significant. Living in a very difficult historical period for the country he constructed..... More
St. Petersburg: Liki Rossii, 2009. sewn cl. The most complete catalogue of architectural monuments from the eleventh through the nineteenth centuries that survive in various states of preservation on the territory of Novgorod the Great and its province (Staraia Russa, Valdai). The compilers illustrate and describe in detail each monument..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2021. Sewn pb. Commissioning the New Hermitage as a public museum for what had been the imperial family's private collection, Nicholas I brought Russia into the sphere of European art collecting, exhibiting and museums. Buildings for museums had become a genre of architecture and design, which Nicholas..... More
St. Petersburg: Pavlovsk, 2008. sewn pb. Besides its beautiful of the palace itself and the quality of its collections of fine and applied art, Pavlovsk is exceptional for the integration of architecture and interior design, the architects in many cases creating the drawings for the manufacture of furniture, lighting implements..... More
St. Petersburg: Pavlovsk, 2010. sewn pb. Many years of research substantiate the authors’ history of the architectural and decorative elements of the residential rooms of two floors of the great neoclassical palace outside St. Petersburg from its original design in the 1790s through all stages of construction and renovation in..... More
St. Petersburg: Istoricheskaia illiustratsiia, 2007. pb. This catalogue of the collection at the Oranienbaum Museum-Preserve comprises works of porcelain, enamel, lacquer, cloisonné, and furniture. The history of the collection reflects the tastes current among the Russian court in the eighteenth century. The first owner of the palace, Alexander Menshikov, began..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2013. sewn pb. The Hermitage does not often do exhibitions devoted to architecture; when it does, the exhibition is special as in “White City,” which uses maps, plans, archival and contemporary photographs to show the way a modern architectural style was aptly chosen for a singular natural..... More
Moscow: Belyi gorod, 2003. Sewn cl. Zubov’s accurate and artistic drawings recorded in its first years the burgeoning port town which would soon become the capital of the Russian empire. 176 pp., 8 1/2 x 11 ins., 57 b-&-w illus., sewn cl., Rus. More
St. Petersburg: Art-Deko, 2006. sewn cl. An album on one of Russia’s principal monasteries that publishes new and archival photographs portraying its complex architectural history beginning with Trezini’s early eighteenth century design. The work combines art historical material—rarely seen shots of the interiors of the monastery’s eighteenth- and nineteenth-century buildings..... More
St. Petersburg: Neva, 1996. pb. Romantic, eclectic, art nouveau, and early constructivist buildings demonstrate that Petersburg architects of even purely utilitarian structures created an original and important part of the city’s architectural heritage. 132 pp., 5 3/8 x 8 1/2 ins., 32 b-&-w illus., Rus. More
Moscow: Severnyi palomnik, 2020 (2nd enlarged edition). Sewn cl. The authors survey the buildings built in St. Petersburg as factories and designed to produce efficiently and accommodate large work forces. From the mid eighteenth-century Imperial Porcelain Factory to masterpieces of avant-garde architecture the monograph illustrates how practical urban functions shape..... More
St. Petersburg: ARS, 2003. Sewn pb. As the idea of the museum took root in Europe in the first half of the nineteenth century, Nicholas I (r. 1825–55) decided to build a special wing of the Winter Palace to publicly display the art collections that had been growing in the..... More
Petrozavodsk: Kizhi / Severnyi palomnik, 2018. Sewn cl. The distinct style of the cupolas made from aspen shingles wedged one upon another together with the ornately carved cornices and window frames make the wooden structures of the Russian north masterpieces of folk architecture. This book gives an overview of the..... More
Moscow: Progress-Traditsiia, 2014. sewn cl. In this comparative study the author begins with a look at the use of ceramics for ornamenting buildings and interiors in such cities as Paris, Barcelona, Brussels, Amsterdam, and Budapest. She then focuses on its flourishing in the architecture and interior design at the turn..... More
St. Petersburg: Kolo, 2012. Sewn cl. As architectural structures Kekushev's houses and buildings are distinctive, but it is the way he designs interior and exterior ornamentation that makes his architecture visual art. The abundance of rarely seen interiors show his ability to carry a coherent style most akin to art..... More
Moscow: Art-Rodnik, 2007. sewn. cl. The author examines written and visual sources of traditional Russian gardens, especially those of monasteries, and then looks at the renowned gardens of the palace ensembles outside St. Petersburg of the Russian imperial family and their court—Peterhof, Tsarskoe Selo, Pavlovsk, Oranienbaum, Gatchina, Strel’na—and those outside..... More
St. Petersburg: ARS, 1993 (1st ed. 1861). Pb. This survey of one of the art centers of medieval Rus' was written by the eminent forerunner of Russia's great school of Byzantinists and medievalists. His insights have not lost their freshness and originality. The earliest site reviewed is Holy Trinity Church..... More
Moscow: Indrik, 2009. Sewn cl. The technique of building that incorporated six columns and five domes became the most stately form of church construction in late medieval period. This monograph deals with its heyday before Peter the Great's westernizing led to adoption of such styles as single steeples based on..... More