St. Petersburg: Architecture of the Tsars by Dmitri O. Shvidkovsky

St. Petersburg: Architecture of the Tsars

Dmitri O. Shvidkovsky with John Goodman (Translator)

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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 ar...

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