St. Petersburg : architecture of the tsars / photographs by Alexander Orloff ; text by Dmitri Shvidkovsky ; translated from the French by John Goodman

Shvidkovski , D. O

ISBN 10: 0789202174 / ISBN 13: 9780789202178

Edité par New York : Abbeville Press Publishers, 1996

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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. 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. 1 Kg.

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• Titre: St. Petersburg : architecture of the tsars / photographs by Alexander Orloff ; text by Dmitri Shvidkovsky ; translated from the French by John Goodman
• Éditeur: New York : Abbeville Press Publishers
• Date de parution: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0789202174
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780789202178
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: 1st edition.
• Poids: 1 kilogramme

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Synopsis

Before becoming a city, St. Petersburg was a utopian vision in the mind of its founder, Peter the Great. Conceived by him as Russia's "window to the West," it evolved into a remarkably harmonious assemblage of baroque, rococo, neoclassical, and art nouveau buildings that reflect his taste and that of his successors, including Anna I, Elizabeth I, Catherine the Great, and Paul I. Crisscrossed by rivers and canals, this "Venice of the North," as Goethe dubbed it, is of unique beauty. Never before has that beauty been captured as eloquently as on the pages of this sumptuous volume. From the stately mansions lining the fabled Nevsky Prospekt to the magnificent palaces of the tsars on the outskirts of the city, including Peterhof, Tsarskoe Selo, Oranienbaum, Gatchina, and Pavlovsk, photographer Alexander Orloff's portrait of St. Petersburg does full justice to the vision of its founder and namesake. The text, by art historian Dmitri Shvidkovsky, chronicles the history of the city's planning and construction from Peter the Great's time to the reign of the last tsar, Nicholas II. Anyone who has ever visited--or dreamed of visiting--the city of "white nights" will find St. Petersburg irresistible.

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Alexander Orloffs work has appeared in Vogue, Newsweek, The New York Times, Geo, Natural History, Stern, and many other periodicals. He is the author of several books, including Carnival: Myth and Cult and Russian Ballet on Tour, and his photographic study of North Africa's Maghrebian architectural heritage for UNESCO was awarded the Kodak Photographic Critics Prize. Dmitri Shvidkovsky is a member of the Academy of Fine Arts of the Russian Federation and director of the Department of the History of Architecture at the Architecture Institute in Moscow. His articles have appeared in Russian, French, English, and Chinese journals. His books include Tsarskoe Selo: City and Gardens of the Era of Enlightenment in Russia (1990) and Artistic Problems in Russian Architecture (1991).