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Date

8-1976

Description

The State Historical Museum is located at the end of Red Square in Moscow. It was designed by Sherwood and Semyonov (Berton, 177) at the end of the nineteenth century. It’s facade employs a psuedo-Russian style which arbitrarily incorporates designs from older wooden architecture and medieval Russian motifs on cube shaped classical structures. In the translation, ironically, the meaning and significance has been lost and has been criticized by some as appearing contrived, perhaps reflecting the architects self consciousness of the buildings proximity to the glorious architecture of the St. Basil.

Notes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Osipovich_Shervud (accessed May 29, 2012)

Barton, Kathleen. Moscow: An Architectural History (New York, 1977). pp. 175-7

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Historical_Museum (accessed May 29, 2012)

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This object from the Chester E. Smolski photographic slides and publications, housed by the Rhode Island College Special Collections, and any of its digital surrogates are the intellectual property of Rhode Island College. This digital object is protected by copyright and/or related rights. The digital material presented here is licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This content can be used, shared, or adapted for educational and scholarly purposes. For permissions to use this item please contact digitalcommons@ric.edu. All uses must include appropriate attribution.

Creator 1 Role

Photographer

Creator 2 Dates

1832-1897

Creator 2 Role

Architect

Recommended Citation

Chester E. Smolski photographic slides and publications, MSS-0041, Special Collections, James P. Adams Library, Rhode Island College.

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Keywords

psuedo-Russian, architecture, 19th century, museum, street scene, Moscow, Red Square

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