A History of Russian Architecture

Since its initial publication in 1993, A History of Russian Architecture has remained the most comprehensive study of the topic in English, a volume that defines the main components and sources for Russia’s architectural traditions in their historical context, from the early medieval period to the present. This edition includes 80 new full-page color separations, many of which are published here for the first time, as well as a new Prologue and elegant photographic essay drawn from the author’s research and fieldwork over the past decade in remote areas of the Russian north and Siberia.

Subject to influences from east and west, Russian architecture’s distinctive approaches to building are documented in four parts of this definitive study: early medieval Rus up to the Mongol invasion in the mid-twelfth century; the revival of architecture in Novgorod and Muscovy from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries; Peter the Great’s cultural revolution, which extended through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; and the advent of modern, avant-garde, and monumental Soviet architecture. Beautifully illustrated and carefully researched, A History of Russian Architecture provides an invaluable cultural history that will be of interest to scholars and general audiences alike.

View the William C. Brumfield Russian Architecture Collection online at http://content.lib.washington.edu/brumfieldweb/index.html

William Craft Brumfield is professor of Russian studies at Tulane University. He is the author of Lost Russia and The Origins of Modernism in Russian Architecture, among other books, and a member of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences.View the William C. Brumfield Russian Architecture Collection online at http://depts.washington.edu/ceir/brumfield

Prologue to the 2004 Edition

Acknowledgments

Author's Note

Introduction

Part One: Early Medieval Architecture

1. Kiev and Chernigov

2. Novgorod and Pskov: Eleventh to Thirteenth Centuries

3. Vladimir and Suzdal Before the Mongol Invasion

4. The Revival of Architecture in Novgorod and Pskov

Part Two: The Moscovite Period

5. Moscow: Architectural Beginnings

6. The Ascent of Architecture in Moscovy

7. The Seventeenth Century: From Ornamentalism to the New Age

Part Three: The Turn to Western Forms

8. The Foundations of the Baroque in Saint Petersburg

9. The Late Baroque in Russia: The Age of Rastrelli

10. Neoclassicism in Petersburg: The Age of Catherine the Great

11. Eighteenth-Century Neoclassicism in Moscow and the Provinces

12. The Early Nineteenth Century: Alexandrine Neoclassicism

Part Four: The Formation of Modern Russian Architecture

13. Nineteenth-Century Historicism and Eclecticism

14. Modernism During the Early Twentieth Century

15. Revolution and Reaction in Soviet Architecture

Appendices

Appendix I. Russian Wooden Architecture

Appendix II. Illustrated Architectural Elements

Notes

Bibliography

Index