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The architecture of Russia refers to the architecture of modern Russia as well as the architecture of both the original Kievan Rus', the Russian principalities, and Imperial Russia. Due to the geographical size of modern and Imperial Russia, it typically refers to architecture built in European Russia, as well as European influenced ...
[8] The cathedral foreshadowed the climax of Russian national architecture in the 17th century, [9] and it is considered as a prime example of Russian Renaissance architecture. [ 10 ] As part of the program of state atheism , the church was confiscated from the Russian Orthodox community as part of the Soviet Union 's antireligious campaigns ...
The Russian Revival style [a] comprises a number of different movements within Russian architecture that arose in the second quarter of the 19th century and was an eclectic melding of Byzantine elements (Neo-Byzantine architecture in the Russian Empire) and pre-Petrine (Old Russian) architecture. Russian Revival architecture arose within a ...
Neoclassical architecture in Russia developed in the second half of the 18th century, especially after Catherine the Great succeeded to the throne on June 28, 1762, becoming Empress of Russia. Neoclassical architecture developed in many Russian cities , first of all St. Petersburg , which was undergoing its transformation into a modern capital ...
Russian Neoclassical Revival was a trend in Russian culture, most pronounced in architecture, that briefly replaced Eclecticism and Art Nouveau as the leading architectural style between the Revolution of 1905 and the outbreak of World War I, coexisting with the Silver Age of Russian Poetry.
Moscow Baroque (from 1680s to 1700s), also known as Naryshkin Baroque, is a transitional period from Russian patterned (Russian узорчье) to full-fledged Baroque. It preserves many structural and decorative elements of architecture of Kievan Rus', reworked under the influence of the Baroque in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Renaissance architecture is the European architecture of the period ... and produced a design combining traditional Russian style with a Renaissance sense of ...
Medieval Russian architecture (1 C, 2 P) Modernist architecture in Russia (2 C, 22 P) ... Renaissance Revival architecture in Russia (1 C, 3 P)