St. Petersburg: Architecture of the Tsars
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| Rating | : | 4.16 (554 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0789202174 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 360 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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"This is a wonderful book." according to A Customer. This is a beautiful book. The photographs are outstanding, and occasional old prints showing scenes as they appeared centuries ago lend welcome perspective. The well-written text presumes some knowledge of Russian history but can be enjoyed by anyone interested in this amazing city. Bravo!. "A Feast for the Eyes" according to Christopher Budny. While I'm still making my way through the in-depth text of the book (a pleasant surprise, for a "pretty coffee table book"!) it is a beautiful book to leaf through, photographically. I've just completed Arthur L. George's terrific history St. Petersburg: Russia's Window to the Future, The First Three Centuries, and this has been a wonderful visual to accompany that, and prepare / excite me for my first visit to. Great condition. Jennifer Ballard Very happy with the book. Great condition.
Recommended for both architecture and travel collections.?Edward B. . Petersburg is a planned city, decreed and dictated, with marvelous results in the case of the former Russian capital. Cone, New York CityCopyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. Cone, New York Cit.-- houses: solidity, utility, and beauty." Readers will see that the rules were followed indeed. Like Washington, D.C., St. A commission established by Catherine the Great to plan the development of the city ordered that "Three rules must be honored in the construction of the city's houses: solidity, utility, and beauty." Readers will see that the rules were followed indeed. Recommended for both architecture and travel collections.?Edward B. Petersburg is one of the most beautiful and architecturally impos
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. Before becoming a city, St. 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