Lost Russia: Photographing the Ruins of Russian Architecture

by William Craft Brumfield

Book Overview

Twentieth Anniversary Edition, with a new preface by the author, available in June 2015

The twentieth century in Russia has been a cataclysm of rare proportions, as war, revolution, famine, and massive political terror tested the limits of human endurance. The results of this assault on Russian culture are particularly evident in ruined architectural monuments, some of which are little known even within Russia itself. Over the past four decades...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822315688
• ISBN13: 9780822315681
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.0" x 11.9"

Customer Reviews

Sad but poinent

This book not only met my expectations, but exceeded them. The author took me to places i will never get to see, as well as provide me amazing pictures of these sites for my artistic reference library. as well as explaining about the sites themselves. Most saddeinig is the state of dissrepair of these historical sites, and the lack of funding to keep them up. This book held many a haunting image, weither you buy this to learn about architecture of a past Russian time, or photographic reference, or the state of these amazing landmarks fallen into disrepair... or if you have an explorer's streak within.. you will not be dissapointed. Worth every penny.