Acknowledgements ix

Glossary xi
Introduction i

I BETWEEN BYZANTINE AND ROMANESQUE 13

1 A Choice of Faith and a Choice of Architecture 13

2 The Architecture of Kievan Rus':The Emergence of a Model for Sacred Buildings 15
3 Romanesque in North-eastern Rus':The Architecture of Vladimir - Historical Context 26
4 The Earliest Cathedrals of North-eastern Rus' 28
5 The Churches of Andrey Bogolyubsky and the Lombard Masters 30
6 The Cathedral of St Demetrius and the Depiction of Paradise 41
7 St George's Cathedral in Yur'yev-Polsky: An Encyclopedia of Russian Romanesque 44

8 The Mongol Invasion and the Absence of Gothic 62

9 The Beginnings of Moscow Architecture 64

II THE MOSCOW RENAISSANCE 73

1 Byzantine Masters in Renaissance Italy and Moscow 73
2 The Prospects of a Moscow "Renaissance" 75
3 Foreigners' Accounts of New Buildings in Moscow at the Turn of the Fifteenth and
Sixteenth Centuries 77
4 Aristotele Fioravanti and Filarete 78
5 Aristotele Fioravanti in Italy 80
 6 Fioravanti, Cardinal Vissarion and Sernyon Tolbuzin 81
7 The Architectural Programme of the Cathedral of the Dormition in the Moscow Kremlin
and the "early Greek piety laid down by God" 82
8 The Building of Fioravanti's Cathedral of the Dormition 84
9 Russian, Italian and Byzantine Features of the Cathedral of the Dormition 85
10 The Solari Building Dynasty in Milan and Moscow 91
11 The Late Fifteenth-century Lombard Fortifications and Grand Princes' Palace
in. the Kremlin 92
12 Alevisio Lamberti da Montagnana and the Burial-place of the Princes of Moscow 99
1:3 Moscow Traditional Architecture in the Renaissance Period 108
14 The Symbolism of the Third Rome:Vasily III and the Church of the Ascension in
Kolomenskoye in

III POST-BYZANTINE " MANNERISM" IN THE MUSCOVITE STATE 123

1 Post-Byzantine "Mannerism"? The Stylistic Features of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century
Russian Architecture 123
2 St Basil's Cathedral and the Architectural Tastes of Ivan the Terrible 126
3 The Meaning of St Basil's Cathedral 138
4 New Tower-form and Traditional Churches in the Second Half
of the Sixteenth Century 140
5 English Architects at the Court of Ivan the Terrible 146
6 The Reign of Boris Godunov: Tradition and a NewWave of Italianisms 150
7 The Architecture of the First of the Romanovs and Christopher Galloway 153
8 The Architecture of Alexis Mikhaylovich 166

IV RUSSIAN IMPERIAL BAROQUE 183

1 Peter the Great's Architectural Reforms 183
2 Architectural "Manners" in Moscow in the Early Petrine Era 185
3 The Founding of St Petersburg and the Transformation of Moscow:
The Image of a New Empire 193
4 Peter the Great's Foreign Architects 197
5 Baroque St Petersburg 205
6 The Birth of Russian Imperial Baroque 209
7 The Style of Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli 210
 V THE RUSSIAN ENLIGHTENMENT 22O.
i "Legislomania" and the Architectural Utopia of Catherine the Great 229
2 Jean-Baptiste-Michel Vallin de la Mothe and the Emergence of Russian Neodassicism 232
3 Antonio Rinaldi and the Brief Life of Russian Rococo 236
4 Russian Pupils of Charles de WaillyiThe Return of Vasily Bazhenov and Ivan Starov 240
5 Catherine the Great's Architectural Programme for Moscow:
Vasily Bazhenov, Matvey Kazakov and Nicolas Legrand 242
6 The Revival of Antiquity and Palladianism:
Charles-Louis Clerisseau, Charles Cameron, Giacomo Quarenghi and Nikolay L'vov 254
7 Town and Country in the Age of Enlightenment 267
8 Architecture and Politics in the Last Years of the Reign of Catherine the Great 281

VI THE EUROPEAN CENTURY 291

1 Neoclassicism, the Russian Style and Eclecticism 291

2 Vincenzo Brenna and the Architectural Fate of Paul I 293
3 The "Rome Prize" Style in St Petersburg in the Reign of Alexander I 296
4 Moscow after the Fire of 1812: Iosif Bove and Domenico Gilardi 302
5 Vying with Ancient Rome: The St Petersburg of Karl Rossi, Vasily Stasov and
Auguste-Ricard de Montferrand 308
6 Utopia in Neoclassical Garb: William Hastie's Model Planning System 319
7 From Gothic Revival to Russian Style 324
8 Alexander II and Alexander III: An Era of Retrospection 335
9 Russian Art Nouveau and Neoclassical Nostalgia on the Eve of Revolution 340

VII THE SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET ERAS 357

1 The Architecture of Soviet Russia and the West 357

2 The Soviet Neoclassical Revival and its Displacement by Industrialized Architecture 368
3 Architecture of the Post-Soviet Era 379

Notes 386

Select Bibliography 401

Index 420
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Titel: Russian architecture and the West / Dmitry Shvidkovskiy. Photogr. by Yekaterina Shorban.
Transl. from the Russian by Antony Wood. - New Haven [u.a.] : Yale Univ. Press, 2007
ISBN: 0-300-10912-1clalk. paper
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