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St Petersburg by Arthur George, Elena George "This is the best and most comprehensive book in English I've seen on St Petersburg, from the beginning to very recent. "St Petersburg" has extensive coverage of the arts and culture, filling in all the missing context that reveals just how unusual and imcomparable this city is. I read it on a flight to St Petersburg from San Franscisco and continue to use it as a reference when tracking down a building or symphony's orgin or interesting but obscure legend. Highly Recommended for history or culture buffs". Stan

A History of Russian Architecture by William Craft Brumfield From Publishers Weekly Sweeping from masonry churches of Kievan Rus to the prefabricated, industrialized buildings of the post-Stalinist era, this detailed, magnificently illustrated history firmly places Russian architecture in a cultural context. Brumfield, a professor of Slavic languages at Tulane University, traces an "architecture of national survival" from late medieval votive churches, which reflected a succession of czars' suspicion of Western culture, through Peter the Great's pragmatic adaptation of northern baroque, to 1930s totalitarian pseudoclassicism. He examines Russia's creative assimilation of foreign influences into distinctive forms, whether in neoclassical palaces, festive polychrome churches with gilded onion domes, log houses, the eclectic "style moderne" of Moscow's Hotel Metropole or the international modernism of 1920s constructivists. This welcome survey is an expanded revision of Gold in Azure: One Thousand Years of Russian Architecture , published by Godine in 1983. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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