Russian Mediaeval Architecture: With an Account of the Transcaucasian Styles and their Influence in the West

by David Roden Buxton

Overview

Originally published in 1934, this book describes the regional variation in architecture in mediaeval Russia and the South Caucasus and the influence it had on western styles. Buxton's text is annotated with many drawings and over one hundred photographs of medieval churches, including several which were destroyed under the Soviet government. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Russian architecture and its legacy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781107434509
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	10/09/2014
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.51(d)

Table of Contents

Preface; Note on transliteration; Part I. Russia: Introductory; 1. Kiev; 2. Novgorod and Pskov; 3. Vladimir; 4. Moscow - the beginnings; 5. Wooden architecture up to the sixteenth century; 6. The Muscovite style before 1650; 7. The national style of Moscow and Yaroslavl since 1650; 8. Wooden architecture in the Ukraine and Ukrainian baroque; 9. Baroque of Moscow; 10. Wooden architecture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; Part II. Transcaucasia: Introductory; 1. Origins; 2. Armenia before the tenth century: evolution in church plans; 3. Armenia, tenth and eleventh centuries; 4. Georgia; 5. Spread of Caucasian influence westwards; Bibliography; Index.