The article examines the main features of Russian classical church and secular architecture in the context of pan-European development. The author highlights the relationships of iconographic sources and internal and external factors which determined the architecture of Russian classicism as a unique phenomenon in world practice and formulates the main modes of formation and evolution of the national Classicist architecture: a unique fusion of various stages, creative methods and artistic styles, emergence of unique style metastructures, electivity, and eclecticism. As the result, the author proposes a classification of planning and compositional structures. The uniqueness and variety of Russian classical architecture acquires the value of a kind of compendium of regional historical architecture.
Translated title of the contributionPOLYSTYLISM, ELECTIVE METHOD AND CLASSIFICATION OF ARCHITECTURE COMPOSITIONS OF RUSSIAN CLASSICISM
Original languageRussian
Number of pages23
JournalАРХИТЕКТОН: ИЗВЕСТИЯ ВУЗОВ
Issue number3(63)
StatePublished - 28 Aug 2018

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