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More buildings included the New Admiralty Building (1806-1823, designed by the Russian born, French trained architect Adrian Dmitrievich Zakharov), the New Michael Palace (1819-1825, designed by Karl Ivanovich Rossi, today the Russian Museum), and St Isaac's Cathedral (1817-1857, designed by Auguste Ricard de Montferrand).
[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 ...
Buda Castle in the late 15th century (). After Italy, Hungary was the first European country where the Renaissance appeared. [3] The Renaissance style came directly from Italy during the Quattrocento to Hungary first in the Central European region, thanks to the development of early Hungarian-Italian relationships—not only in dynastic connections, but also in cultural, humanistic and ...
The buildings in the citadel, most of them erected between the 16th and the 19th centuries, reflect the interaction of Russian and Tatar influences, as well as Christian and Muslim faiths. The Kul Sharif Mosque is a new structure, constructed in the 21st century on the site of an earlier mosque.
The Renaissance architecture coexisted with the Gothic style in Bohemia and Moravia until the late 16th century (e. g. the residential part of a palace was built in the modern Renaissance style but its chapel was designed with Gothic elements). The façades of Czech Renaissance buildings were often decorated with sgraffito (figural or ornamental).
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.
Neoclassical architecture developed in many Russian cities, first of all St. Petersburg, which was undergoing its transformation into a modern capital throughout the reign of Catherine II. Portrait of Catherine II by Dmitry Levitsky , early 1780s Antonio Rinaldi , the pavilion in Oranienbaum Moscow Orphanage.
The oldest statement of Russian Revival, 1826 Alexander Nevsky Memorial Church in Potsdam. The first extant example of Byzantine Revival in Russian architecture and the first example ever built stands in Potsdam, Germany, the five-domed Alexander Nevsky Memorial Church by Vasily Stasov (builder of neoclassical Trinity Cathedral, St. Petersburg, father of critic Vladimir Stasov).