La cultura architettonica italiana in Russia
La cultura architettonica italiana in Russia da Caterina II a Alessandro I, Mendrisio Academy Press
La cultura architettonica italiana in Russia da Caterina II a Alessandro I, Mendrisio Academy Press
La cultura architettonica italiana in Russia da Caterina II a Alessandro I, Mendrisio Academy Press
La cultura architettonica italiana in Russia da Caterina II a Alessandro I, Mendrisio Academy Press
La cultura architettonica italiana in Russia da Caterina II a Alessandro I, Mendrisio Academy Press
La cultura architettonica italiana in Russia da Caterina II a Alessandro I, Mendrisio Academy Press
Academy of Architecture
It is true that the eighteenth century marks the entry of Russia into “European time” or, as Vittorio Strada writes in this book, «into the rhythm of a modernity that had found its origins in western Europe». But it is in the arts and, above all, in architecture, that the process is most remarkably evident. For between 1762, when Catherine II ascended the throne, and the death of her grandson Tsar Alexander I in 1825, the neoclassical style fully established itself and witnessed, in Russian architecture, an absolutely original interpretation. To that singular achievement Italian architectural culture made a major and multifarious contribution, which the present collection of essays seeks to explore.