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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.