1953
LENINGRAD ARCHITECTURE
ARCHITECTURE > ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY ART > RUSSIA > PROPAGANDA
B&W PHOTOGRAPHY
PHOTO BOOK - ORIGINAL
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CONTENT: This is a rare architectural album containing: > 339 pages of text
> hundreds of illustrations, black&white and colored
plates, photography, architectural and urban drawings
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DESCRIPTION: This album is a survey of the architectural history of
Leningrad, from the beginning of the 18th century (1702) to 1950. Illustrations
show portraits of the most famous Russian architects of the past, photography
of the individual buildings, palaces, gardens, exterior and interior views of
the most important historical buildings, layouts of the ground of 17th and 18th
century buildings, urban views which show the development of the city,
engravings, facades. Includes individual buildings or complexes, public
monuments, bridges and parks, also interior views, neo-classical architecture
and communist architecture. Also includes portraits of Lenin and realist - socialist
paintings. The socialist / totalitarian architecture proves to be inspired by
the Neo Classical architecture and a form of continuity in the mid- 20th
century. Leningrad was also known as Petrograd and St Petersburg.
St. Petersburg, which is Russia's second largest urban area,
was founded in 1703 by the czar Peter the Great. In 1914, the German sounding
name was changed to Petrograd. Then, after the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924,
the Soviet Union changed the city's name to Leningrad. Leningrad became St.
Petersburg again 67 years later when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. |