September 16, 2001

Book Picks - Architecture

by Linda DeLaine

The Art and Architecture of Russia
George Heard Hamilton
Designed by Judith Gordon

Paperback, 3rd ed., 482pp.
Yale University Press
June 1992

A History of Russian Architecture
William Craft Brumfield

Paperback, 656pp.
Cambridge University Press
July 1997

Lost Russia: Photographing the Ruins of Russian Architecture
William Craft Brumfield

Paperback, 132pp.
Duke University Press
May 1995

The Russian Kremlin
Meg Greene

Hardcover, 95pp.
Gale Group Pub.
September 2001
Recommend Age Range: 5

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A hilarious and insightful memoir by a diplomat who was “present at the creation” of US-Soviet relations. For anyone with even a passing interest in US-Russian history, this is a priceless book.

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1945: Russian troops reached the suburbs of Berlin (WWII). By the 30th they had taken the Reichstag. On May 2, Berlin fell.

1922: Stanislav Rostotsky, film director, born (died 2001)

1890: Chekhov begins his trip to Sakhalin, departing from Yaroslavl

1870: Alexander Benois, painter, art critic, born (died 1960)

1729: Catherine II (the Great), ruled 1762-1796, born in Stettin as Sophia Augusta Fredericka of Anhalt-Zerbst. (died 1796).

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