Architecture and Planning of Classical Moscow

Architecture and Planning of Classical Moscow Volume 1 provides a detailed cultural history of the building and planning schemes in Moscow. This architecture study focuses on the period from the accession of Catherine the Great in the 1760s through the reign of Nicholas I around 1840. The text examines the classical city that emerged after the great fire of 1812, highlighting the surviving remnants of this era despite later Soviet urban redevelopment.

The author features the work of influential architects including Vasilii Bazhenov, Matvei Kazakov, Osip Bove, Domenico Giliardi, and Afanasii Grigor'ev. By analyzing their individual creations and broader city-planning achievements, Architecture and Planning of Classical Moscow Volume 1 serves as an atlas of central Moscow's boulevards and thoroughfares. This work recreates a lost era while clarifying the structural character of the modern metropolis.