About the Author

William Craft Brumfield is Professor of Slavic Languages at Tulane University and the author of Gold in Azure: One Thousand Years of Russian Architecture (1983).

Reviews

"Thanks to Brumfield, a superb scholar-cum-photographer, we are beginning to appreciate the Russian achievement in architecture--perhaps even more than the Russians do themselves. . . . He combines meticulous scholarship with his own excellent illustrations to give even those who do not know a pilaster from a spandrel a vivid sense of the distinctive features of the buildings. . . . An outstanding achievement--the best, and only, comprehensive book on the subject in any language."--"Choice