Санкт-Петербург был задуман Петром I как город образцовый, правильный, геометрически вы-веренный, как эталон градо-строительства. Высокое искусство зодчих, живших и творивших в Петербурге, одушевило схемы петровских чертежей. Их творческие взлёты, воплощённые в камне, сделали город живым и тёплым. Петербург стал не только одним из самых прекрасных городов мира, но и, быть может самым лирическим. Город...

ISBN: 978-5-93024-052-8
Издательство: Welcome
Дата выхода: июль 2010

Despite three revolutions and three name changes, Peter the Great`s Venice of the North, the most European of Russia`s cities, lives on gloriously. With exquisite photographs, detailed descriptions, and easy-to-read maps, the "National Geographic Traveler: St. Petersburg" brings you the best of this enchanted, canal-crossed city, plus hidden gems as well. Veteran writer Jeremy Howard, a long-time scholar of Russia and its arts, ably guides you through the city`s long history, illuminating its love affair with baroque architecture, ballet, and painting. He details all the main sights - the formidable SS. Peter and Paul Fortress; the famed Hermitage Museum, which occupies the historic Winter Palace; Palace Square; St. Isaac`s Cathdral;...

ISBN: 978-1-4262-0050-2
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Leon Benois was a Russian architect. He was the son of architect Nicholas Benois, the brother of artists Alexandre Benois and Albert Benois, and the grandfather of the actor Sir Peter Ustinov. He built the Roman Catholic cathedral of Notre-Dame in St Petersburg, the mausoleum of the Grand Dukes of Russia in the Peter and Paul Fortress, and the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Warsaw, among many other works. Benois served as Dean of the Imperial Academy of Arts (1903-06, 1911-17) and edited the architecture magazine "Zodchiy". He gave his name to Leonardo da Vinci's painting Madonna Benois which he inherited from his father-in-law and presented to the Hermitage Museum Данное издание...

ISBN: 978-6-1308-2423-5
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Leon Benois (Russian: Леонтий Николаевич Бенуа) (1856 – 1928) was a Russian architect. He was the son of architect Nicholas Benois, the brother of artists Alexandre Benois and Albert Benois, and the grandfather of the actor Sir Peter Ustinov. He built the Roman Catholic cathedral of Notre-Dame in St Petersburg, the mausoleum of the Grand Dukes of Russia in the Peter and Paul Fortress, and the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Warsaw, among many other works. Benois served as Dean of the Imperial Academy of Arts (1903-06, 1911-17) and edited the architecture magazine "Zodchiy". He gave his name to Leonardo da Vinci`s painting Madonna Benois which he inherited from his...

ISBN: 978-5-5108-2250-2

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Yuri Fyodorovich Samarin (Юрий Фёдорович Самарин; 1819-1876) was a leading Russian Slavophile thinker and one of the architects of the Emancipation reform of 1861. He came from a noble family and befriended Konstantin Aksakov from an early age. An ardent admirer of Hegel and Khomyakov, Samarin attended the Moscow University, where his teachers included Mikhail Pogodin. He came to believe that "Orthodoxy, and Orthodoxy alone, is a religion which philosophy can recognize" and that "the Orthodox church cannot exist apart from Hegel's philosophy". Samarin's dissertation was a study of Feofan...

ISBN: 978-6-1331-2742-5
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Nicolas de Stael (January 5, 1914, Saint Petersburg – March 16, 1955, Antibes) (French nationality, of Russian origin) was a painter known for his use of a thick impasto and his highly abstract landscape painting. He also worked with collage, illustration and textiles.Nocolas de Stael was born Николай Владимирович Шталь фон Гольштейн in the family of a Russian Lieutenant General, Baron Vladimir Stael von Holstein, (a member of the Stael von Holstein...

ISBN: 978-6-1332-3089-7
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

St. Petersburg is divided into five central areas, each reflecting different sides of the city`s past. Vasilevskiy Island contains museums and scholarly institutions; Petrogradskaya is dominated by the Peter and Paul Fortress; Palace Embankment is lined with stately palaces; Gostinyy Dvor is the city`s commercial hub; and Sennaya Ploshchad is an area of tree-lined canals.

ISBN: 978-1-4053-4684-9
Издательство: Dorling Kindersley Publishing
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Grand Duke Dimitri Constantinovich of Russia (Russian: Димитрий Константинович; 13 June 1860 – 28 January 1919) was a son of Grand Duke Constantin Nikolaevich and a first cousin of Alexander III of Russia. He followed a military career. Although he never played any political role, as a relative of tsar Nicholas II, he was executed by firing squad at the walls of Peter and Paul Fortress during the Russian Revolution.

ISBN: 978-5-5091-3405-0