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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 ...
Panel khrushchevka in Tomsk Brick khrushchevka in Tomsk. A khrushchevka (Russian: хрущёвка, romanized: khrushchyovka, IPA: [xrʊˈɕːɵfkə]) is a type of low-cost, concrete-paneled or brick three- to five-storied apartment building which was developed in the Soviet Union during the early 1960s, during the time its namesake Nikita Khrushchev directed the Soviet government. [1]
Russian churches often have various recurrent elements in their architecture. The onion dome is for example a recurrent and important element in the architecture of Russian churches. Often Russian churches have also multi-colored filigree ornamental elements. Furthermore the colour white plays an important role in the style of Russian churches ...
The Russian wooden architecture (in Russian ру́сское деревя́нное зо́дчество, russkoe derevyannoye zodchestvo) [Note 1] [1] is a traditional architectural movement in Russia, [2] [3] that has stable and pronounced structural, technical, architectural and artistic features determined by wood as the main material.
The architecture of Kievan Rus' comes from the medieval state of Kievan Rus' which incorporated parts of what is now modern Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus, and was centered on Kiev and Novgorod. Its architecture is the earliest period of Russian and Ukrainian architecture, using the foundations of Byzantine culture but with great use of ...
Pages in category "Architecture in Russia" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Tsardom of Russia fortification engineer and architect a monument in Smolensk Kremlin on photo: the walls and towers of Novospassky Monastery in Moscow and several other Russian monasteries; Bely Gorod fortification ring of Moscow, 1585–93 (in 18th–19th centuries replaced with the Boulevard Ring); Smolensk Kremlin, the largest one in Russia ...
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 ...