St. Petersburg : architecture of the tsars / photographs by Alexander Orloff ; text by Dmitri Shvidkovsky ; translated from the French by John Goodman
1996, 1st edition. New York : Abbeville Press Publishers. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #443758
ISBN: 0789202174
Physical description; 360 pages : color illustrations, maps (some color) ; 33 cm. Contents; St. Petersburg : city of Imperial culture -- Peter the Great : a window to the West -- Anna Ivanovna and Elizabeth Petrovna : the dazzle of the Baroque -- Catherine II : the city of enlightenment -- Paul I : the tormented one -- Alexander I and Nicholas I : classical grandeur -- Alexander II and Alexander III : retrospection and nationalism -- Nicholas II : the rise and fall of art nouveau -- Tsarskoe Selo -- Oranienbaum -- Gatchina -- Pavlovsk -- Peterhof. Subjects; Romanov, House of Art patronage. Architecture, Baroque Russia (Federation) Saint Petersburg. Neoclassicism (Architecture) Russia (Federation) Saint Petersburg. Neoclassicism (Architecture). Saint Petersburg (Russia) Buildings, structures, etc.
Price: €60.00