St. Petersburg : architecture of the tsars

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St. Petersburg : architecture of the tsars

photographs by Alexander Orloff ; text by Dmitri Shvidkovsky ; translated from the French by John Goodman

Abbeville Press Publishers, c1996

1st ed

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Saint Pétersbourg

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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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Preface by Federico Mayor, General Director of UNESCO 5 ST. PETERSBURG City of Imperial Culture 12 1 PETER THE GREAT A window to the West 14 The Founding of St. Petersburg 16 * The Initial Plan for St. Petersburg 20 * The Architects of Peter the Great 24 * The Peter-Paul Fortress 34 * The Palaces of Peter the Great 36 * Monuments from the Era of Peter the Great on Vasilievsky Island 40 2 ANNA IVANOVNA AND ELIZABETH PETROVNA The Dazzle of the Baroque 44 Anna Ivanovna: The Second Birth of the City 48 * Elizabeth Petrofina, or the Blossoming of the Rastrelli Baroque 61 * Smolny Convent 65 * Cathedral of St. Nicholas of the Sea 71 * St. Petersburg Palaces in the Baroque Era 75 * Winter Palace 76 3 CATHERINE II The City of Enlightenment 82 From the Baroque to Classicism 84 * Vallin de la Mothe and the Birth of Classicism in St. Petersburg 91 * Palladianism and Classicism in the Late Eighteenth Century 100 * The Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra and the Tauride Palace 102 4 PAUL I The Tormented One 110 The Romantic Castle 112 5 ALEXANDER I AND NICHOLAS I Classical Grandeu 120 St. Petersburg and Its Culture in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century 122 * The Tip of Vasilievsky Island 136 * The Admiralty 140 * General Staff Headquarters and Palace Square 147 * Senate Square and Decembrist Square 150 * St. Isaac's Cathedral 151 * The Beginning of Nevsky Prospekt 156 * Kazan Cathedral 159 * From Kazan Cathedral to Gostiny Dvor 160 * Mikhailovsky Palace 162 * Theater Square 164 * Nevsky Prospekt Beyond the Anichkov Bridge 169 * The Field of Mars and the Work of Vasily Stasov in St. Petersburg 169 * Palaces on Kamenny and Elagin Islands 172 6 ALEXANDER II AND ALEXANDER III Retrospection and Nationalism 176 A Rapidly Evolving City 178 7 NICHOLAS II The Rise and Fall of Art Nouveau 190 The Great Upheaval 192 8 TSARSKOE SELO The Mystique of Tsarskoe Selo 206 * The Triumph of the Baroque 207 * Catherine the Great's Chinese Caprice 218 * The Return to Antiquity 220 * Rooms from the Era of Catherine the Great 222 * The Meaning of the Park 229 * Classicism and Romanticism 234 * A City of Parks and Salons 234 9 ORANIENBAUM 242 The Palace of Vicissitudes 244 * The Menshikov Palace 253 * Peterstadt, or the Dream of Peter III 259 * Catherine the Great's Personal Dacha 262 * The Chinese Palace 264 * The Sliding Hill Pavilion 266 10 GATCHINA 268 The Masters of Gatchina 270 * The Palace at Gatchina 271 * The Park at Gatchina 276 11 PAVLOVSK 282 Pavlovsk and Its Domain 284 * The First Years at Pavlovsk 289 * The Exterior of the Palace 290 * The Interiors of the Palace 292 * The Conception and History of the Park 293 * The Park Around the Palace 293 * The Vale of the Slavyanka 294 * Daily Life and Festive Occasions at Pavlovsk 299 12 PETERHOF 306 The History of Peterhof and Its Personalities 310 * The Great Palace 325 * Waterfalls and Fountains 331 * Monplaisir 338 * Marly and the Hermitage 341 * The Cottage 344 Notes 354 Index 356

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