New materials regarding research in the fields of architecture and urban construction are being presented. The authors also focus on the history of the creation of little-known buildings of interest, on the development of local architectural traditions, on new attributions, and introduce recently discovered archive materials. A number of papers are dedicated to the issues of architectural and urban planning development of historical towns and cities or study the formation of architectural ensembles. The edition also includes papers that are devoted to theoretical historical-architectural problems, to biographies of architects, or analyze artistic approaches and concepts.
Issue 71
A. E. Ukhnalev.
The Neva River Aquatorium in St. Petersburg in the Peter’s Time
The paper describes the Neva river aquatorium — the central water space of St. Petersburg near the Peter and Paul fortress — on the basis of early 18th century panoramas. The spaciousness of St. Petersburg in the time of Peter I allows us to see the city as a work of Baroque town-planning. However, the centre of the city’s plan does not fall on the Emperor palace, as it usually happens in the Baroque style, but on the central city space, to which all the objects embodying the monarchic presence are facing.
Keywords:
aquatorium, Baroque, development, landscape, panorama, space, St. Petersburg, 18th century.
Ukhnalev Andrei Evgenievich,
Ph. D. (Art History), Scientific Research Institute of the Theory and History of Architecture and Urban Planning (branch of the Central Institute for Research and Design of the Ministry of Construction and Housing and Communal Services of the Russian Federation), leading research fellow.
E-mail: andrey-ukhnalev@yandex.ru
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