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The most comprehensive study of Russian architecture in English

Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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

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