Iusupovskii dvorets v Koreize: proshloe i nastoizshchee
Simferopol: N. Orianda, 2013. 63 p. More
Interiors
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![Turetskaia bania (The Turkish Bath [at Tsarskoe Selo]). A. Toeseva](/pictures/thumb/2083.jpg?v=1509742531)
Turetskaia bania (The Turkish Bath [at Tsarskoe Selo])
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
Dvadtsatikolonyi zal (Hall of 20 columns)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2002. Saddle-stitched. Designed for the Hermitage's collection of Greek and Etruscan vases, the Hall of 20 columns reflects the mid-nineteenth-century view of antiquity: it is a space suited for art that is grand, harmonious, and restrained. It still fulfills the original purpose as a gallery for ancient..... More
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;..... More
Oranienbaum
St. Petersburg: Alfa-Colour, 2005. saddle-stitched. The palace and park of Oranienbaum are less renowned than the other suburban palaces of St. Petersburg, and this brief survey is useful for bringing attention to Oranienbaum’s exceptional ensemble, which is tantamount to a museum of eighteenth-century architecture. Mudrov illustrates and provides basic data..... More
Arapskii zal Zimnego dvortsa (Black Man’s Hall of the Winter Palace)
St. Petersburg: Izd. Gos. Ermitazha, 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..... More
Zimnii dvorets Petra I (The Winter Palace of Peter I)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2006. Saddle-stitched. The rooms discovered under a late eighteenth-century wing of the Winter Palace have enabled Hermitage architectural historians to recreate several rooms of Peter the Great’s palace of the early 1700s. Furnishing them with objects that belonged to Peter and with such works of English and..... More
Gatchina Palace
St. Petersburg: Gallery, 2007. pb. The author summarizes the architectural history of the palace: the initial design of the 1760s by Antonio Rinaldi combining rococo and neoclassical elements; heightening of the palace’s wings and redesign of certain interiors by Vincenzo Brenna in the 1790s; further reconstruction under Nicholas I and..... More
Bol’shaia tserkov’ Zimnego dvortsa (The Large Church of the Winter Palace)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2009. sewn pb. Today’s Hermitage Museum grew out of the palace built for the Russian imperial family in the 1750s, a central part of which was the church that Rastrelli incorporated into the palace. In the gilded and carved details of its walls and iconostasis, the Hermitage’s..... More
Malakhitovyi zal Zimnego dvortsa (The Malachite Hall of the Winter Palace)
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
Zal Van Deika (The Van Dyck Hall)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2002. Saddle-stitched. Part of the New Hermitage, The Van Dyck Hall is a splendid entrance hall to the building added to the Winter Palace and specifically designed as a gallery for the Hermitage's collections. Hung in the hall is the Hermitage's collection of paintings by the great..... More
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..... More
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