Do you like going on excursions and traveling around Russia? During a walk through the city, you can’t help but notice bright, whimsical buildings in the Russian style: the State Historical Museum on Red Square, the Kazansky railway station, the house of the merchant Igumnov on Moscow’s Yakimanka, the Church of the Savior on Blood in St. Petersburg, and the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral at the confluence of the Oka and Volga in Nizhny Novgorod.
The book helps you understand how the features of Ancient Rus architecture passed through the centuries—reflecting themselves in the styles of other eras—and experienced a second revival at the end of the 19th century, when these magnificent buildings were created.