Dmitri O. Shvidkovsky
Autore di St. Petersburg: Architecture of the Tsars
Sull'Autore
Opere di Dmitri O. Shvidkovsky
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Shvidkovskiĭ, Dmitriĭ Olegovich
Швидковский, Дмитрий Олегович - Data di nascita
- 1959-05-14
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Russia
- Attività lavorative
- architectural historian
- Organizzazioni
- Institute of Architecture of Moscow
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Recensioni
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 4
- Utenti
- 95
- Popolarità
- #197,646
- Voto
- 4.3
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 4
- Lingue
- 1
Crisscrossed by rivers and canals, this "Venice of the North," as Goethe dubbed it, is of unique beauty. Never before has that beauty been captured as eloquently as on the pages of this sumptuous volume. From the stately mansions lining the fabled Nevsky Prospekt to the magnificent palaces of the tsars on the outskirts of the city, including Peterhof, Tsarskoe Selo, Oranienbaum, Gatchina, and Pavlovsk, photographer Alexander Orloff's portrait of St. Petersburg does full justice to the vision of its founder and namesake. The text, by art historian Dmitri Shvidkovsky, chronicles the history of the city's planning and construction from Peter the Great's time to the reign of the last tsar, Nicholas II. Anyone who has ever visited--or dreamed of visiting--the city of "white nights" will find St. Petersburg irresistible.… (altro)