Leningrad Architectural Landmarks, Art Museums, Suburban Palaces and Parks - An Illustrated Guide [ CİLTLİ ]

295 sayfa. 15x21 cm
Contemporary Leningrad (originally St. Petersburg) is boundless and multi-faceted. There are Renaissance palaces, Gothic castles and oriental temples; many buildings of the early twentieth century bear the stamp of modernism or constructivism; vast new districts have risen during the last few decades. And all has become part of the harmony created by the genius of many generations. The face of the city reflects its striking and highly dramatic history. Here a great and distinctive culture was created without which it is impossible to imagine the spiritual life of contemporary man: the music of Glinka, Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich, the poetry of Pushkin and Blok, the prose of Gogol and Dostoyevsky, the paintings of Repin and Petrov-Vodkin, the scientific insights of Lomonosov, Euler, Mendeleyev and Pavlov… The city became not only the centre of cultural life in the country, but the subject of many works of art as well. Celebrated time and again in poetry and prose, it has become a symbo

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