Palaces and Gardens of the Russian Museum
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2005. sewn cl. The Russian Museum now comprises four of St. Petersburg’s great palaces: the Stroganov Palace of the 1750s by the great architect of Russian baroque F. Rastrelli (with early nineteenth-century interiors by A. Voronikhin); the Marble Palace of the 1780s designed by A. Rinaldi; the Archangel Michael Castle (Engineers Castle) of the 1790s built to plans of V. Bazhenov and V. Brenna, and C. Rossi’s Michael Palace of the 1820s. Together the buildings and interiors provide an excellent overview of several styles of Russian architecture and design. The last chapter, on the Summer Gardens, displays the early eighteenth-century Summer Palace built for Peter the Great, G. F. Felton’s monumental iron fence, and some of the works of Italian sculpture exhibited in the gardens. 128 pp., 9 x 8 ins., 142 color illus., ENGLISH. Item #2049
ISBN: 3938051272
Price: $48.00