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Architecture and Planning of Classical Moscow: A Cultural History, Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (vol. 181)

By Albert J. Schmidt
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By Albert J. Schmidt
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Dr. Schmidt describes the building & planning schemes in Moscow from approx. the accession of Catherine the Great in the early 1760s to the mid—reign of Nicholas I, about 1840. The author maintains that despite the enormous destruction of historic Moscow caused by the reordering of Gorkii (the old Tverskaia) St. & the Kalinin Prospect (the Arbat) under Stalin & Khrushchev, there still exists a significant remnant of the classical city which rose from the ashes of the great fire in 1812. The...

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