The Holy Place

Zusammenfassung Surveys two centuries of Russian history through a succession of ambitious architectural projects designed for a single construction site in central Moscow.

Autorentext
Konstantin Akinsha is an independent scholar in Washington, D.C., and a contributing editor to ARTnews magazine. Grigorij Kozlov is a freelance art historian in Germany and a contributing editor to ARTnews magazine. Sylvia Hochfield is editor at large for ARTnews magazine.

Klappentext
In the nineteenth century Czar Alexander I began construction of the largest cathedral (and the largest building) in the world at the time on the Moscow site. Completed by Alexander III, it was demolished by Stalin in the 1930s to make way for the tallest building in the world, the Palace of Soviets, but that project was ended by the war. During the Khrushchev years the excavation pit was transformed into an outdoor heated swimming pool - the world's largest, or course - and under Yeltsin's direction the pool was replaced with a reconstruction of the destroyed cathedral. The book explores each project intended for this ideologically-charged site and documents with 60 illustrations the grand projects that were built as well as those that were only dreamed.

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