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$70.00
Hardcover: 644 pages
Dimensions (in inches):1.87 x 11.38 x 8.89
Publisher:Cambridge University Press; (May 28,
1993)
ISBN: 0521403332
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The most comprehensive study of
this subject to date, A History of Russian Architecture surveys
Russian building from the masonry churches of tenth-century Kievan
Rus to the pre-fabricated built environments of the present. Subject
to cultural and stylistic influences from both East and West, Russian
architecture nonetheless developed its own distinctive approaches
to building, as demonstrated in the four parts of the 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 seventeenth centuries; the cultural revolution in architecture
in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; and the advent
of modern architecture. Analysing stylistic developments within
their historical contexts, this volume serves as a rich cultural
history that will be invaluable to scholars and general readers
alike.
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