St. Petersburg: P-2, 2010. saddle-stitched. Catherine the Great had the custom of erecting a park structure, such as a pavilion or sculptural monument, to mark momentous victories. After victory over the Turks in 1791, she asked G. Quarenghi for a design, and he proposed a Turkish bath. The project was..... More

2000. This study of the interiors of churches, palaces, public buildings, and private residences from the baroque to art nouveau teems with information on a less accessible area of Russian art and architectural history. 128 pp., 6 1/2 x 8 5/8 ins., 68 b-&-w illus., 8 color, sewn cl., Rus..... More

St. Petersburg: Isaakievskii sobor / ZImin, 2006. sewn cl. The emblems of families, towns, provinces, and regions honor those who contributed to the construction of the church on the site where Alexander II was assassinated. They also make up excellent visual material tracing the development of heraldry in Russia. The..... More

St. Petersburg: Herm, 2009. saddle-stitched. After serving as living quarters for Grand Prince Alexander Pavlovich’s family, the large hall on the second floor of the Hermitage was redesigned in the late eighteenth century by I. E. Starov as a grand dining room. Restored after the fire of December 1837 by..... More

St. Petersburg: Tsarskoe Selo, 2010. sewn pb. In the second half of the nineteenth century neglect and ignorance of medieval Russian art and architecture gradually ceded to an appreciation of its aesthetic achievements and eventually, by the turn of the twentieth century, to a revival of medieval Russian forms in..... More

St. Petersburg: Herm, 2005. Saddle-stitched. In this number of the series Rooms and Buildings of the Hermitage the author shows off the work of the late 1830s by the architect A. P. Briullov. Briullov used the celebrated green stone of the Urals to form a perfect ensemble combining grand architectural..... More

St. Petersburg: Petergof / Zolotoi Lev, n.d. Saddle-stitched. In the early years of the eighteenth centuryPeter the Great set aside territory on the Gulf of Finland for a palace near his new capital of St. Petersburg. By the middle of the 18th century it became a magnificent ensemble of parks..... More

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..... More