Item #213 Gatchina: Berezovyi domik (Gatchina: The Little Birch House). V. V. Fedorova.
Gatchina: Berezovyi domik (Gatchina: The Little Birch House)

Gatchina: Berezovyi domik (Gatchina: The Little Birch House)

Gatchina: Gatchina, 2002. saddle-stitched. According to an eighteenth-century vogue for imaginative architectural structures in parks around palaces, Grand Duchess Maria Fedorovna commissioned a park structure for her husband Grand Duke Paul (later Emperor) that from the outside resembled several cords of birch logs, but on the inside had a cozy but luxurious neoclassical interior in masonry with wall- and ceiling paintings, and grisaille along the perimeters. Emperor Paul later continued the folly with a stone portal designed by V. Brenna leading to the log house. 14 p., 8 x 5 ins., 20 color illus., Rus. Item #213
ISBN: 5902078105

Price: $7.00

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