St. Petersburg : architecture of the tsars / photographs by Alexander Orloff ; text by Dmitri Shvidkovsky
1996, First Edition. London : Abbeville Press Publishers. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Item #333778
ISBN: 0789202174
Physical description; 360 p. : col. ill., maps ; 33 cm. Notes; Illustrated endpapers. Originally published: Paris : Editions Mengès, 1995. Includes bibliographical references and index. Translated from the French. 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. Romanov, House of. Architecture, Baroque Russia (Federation) Saint Petersburg. Neoclassicism (Architecture) Russia (Federation) Saint Petersburg. Architecture Russia (Federation) Saint Petersburg. Architecture, Baroque Russia (Federation) Saint Petersburg. Neoclassicism (Architecture) Russia (Federation) Saint Petersburg. Architecture Russia (Federation) Saint Petersburg. Architecture. Architecture, Baroque. Art patronage. Buildings. Neoclassicism (Architecture). Saint Petersburg (Russia) Buildings, structures, etc. Russia (Federation) Saint Petersburg. Saint-Pétersbourg (Russie) Constructions. Saint Petersburg Art Architecture. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated.
Price: €60.00