Lantern slides created in the Russian Empire during the late 19th or early 20th century. Image subjects include cathedrals, churches, museums, and palaces. These lantern slides were intended for use in architectural pedagogy. Regions included in this collection comprise the present-day states of Russia, Ukraine, and Georgia.
Architectural Lantern Slides of Russia (includes present-day Ukraine and Georgia)
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- Creator(s):
- G. Massiot & cie
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The Peter and Paul Cathedral is a Russian Orthodox cathedral located inside the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg, Russia. It is the first and oldest landmark in St. Petersburg, built between 1712 and 1733 on Hare Island along the Neva River. Both the cathedral and the fortress were originally built under Peter the Great and designed by Domenico Trezzini. The cathedral’s bell tower is the world’s tallest Orthodox bell tower. The Peter and Paul Cathedral marked a radical depart…
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- 1910-01-01
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- Creator(s):
- G. Massiot & cie
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The current cathedral, of baroque design, was completed in 1772. One of the most notable views is inside the cathedral, the iconostasis that separates the altar from the nave area of the cathedral, which stands almost the height of the interior space. On it there are icons interspaced with intricate gold-covered wooden decorations including figures of cherubim and columns entwined with vine branches. The cathedral sustained enormous damage during the WWII fighting,
- Date Created:
- 1910-01-01
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- Creator(s):
- G. Massiot & cie
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A church, possibly Church of St. John Chrysostom, in Yaroslavl, Russia.
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- 1910-01-01
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- Creator(s):
- G. Massiot & cie
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Lantern slide labeled Petrograd.
The official seat of the government of Russia from 1712 to 1917, it is sited on the left bank of the River Neva, east of the Admiralty, and is now part of the Hermitage Museum. There have been four successive palaces on the site, the first two of wood and destroyed by fire. Bartolomeo Carlo Rastrelli and Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli built the new, stone, Third Winter Palace (1732-1736) for Empress Anne (reigned 1730-1740). Anne’s palace was demolished a…
- Date Created:
- 1910-01-01
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- Creator(s):
- G. Massiot & cie
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Lantern slide labeled Petrograd.
The official seat of the government of Russia from 1712 to 1917, it is sited on the left bank of the River Neva, east of the Admiralty, and is now part of the Hermitage Museum. There have been four successive palaces on the site, the first two of wood and destroyed by fire. Bartolomeo Carlo Rastrelli and Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli built the new, stone, Third Winter Palace (1732-1736) for Empress Anne (reigned 1730-1740). Anne’s palace was demolished a…
- Date Created:
- 1910-01-01
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- Creator(s):
- G. Massiot & cie
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The restorer Aleksey Denisov was called upon to design a replica of extraordinary accuracy, rebuilt 1994-1997.
Ton transformed the plan of the grandiose cruciform and domed church of Christ the Redeemer (1832-1838; destroyed 1934; rebuilt 1994-1997) in Moscow by designing a two-storey gallery on one side of the central block to house a museum. The church was built as a memorial to Russia’s victory in the Patriotic War of 1812-1814. Ton excelled at the Russo-Byzantine style; he also combi…
- Date Created:
- 1910-01-01
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- Creator(s):
- G. Massiot & cie
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Shervud’s most famous building is the Historical Museum (engineer A. A. Semyonov) on Red Square. Its multi-turretted composition and picturesque silhouette have become a vital part of Moscow’s main square. The museum was founded in 1872 by Ivan Zabelin, Aleksey Uvarov and several other Slavophiles interested in promotion of Russian history and national self-awareness. Its interiors were intricately decorated in the Russian Revival style by such artists as Viktor Vasnetsov, Henrik Semi…
- Date Created:
- 1910-01-01
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- Creator(s):
- G. Massiot & cie
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The palace is behind the cathedral; it is connected by passages to the palace apartments.
One of the major buildings in the Cathedral Square, it served as the household church of the grand-princes, later the tsars, and it is connected by passages to the palace apartments. The first stone cathedral of the Annunciation (Blagoveshchensky) was built on this site in the late 14th century. In 1482-1483 it was pulled down to the level of the crypt, and in 1484-1489 masons from Pskov built the prese…
- Date Created:
- 1910-01-01
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- Public
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- Creator(s):
- G. Massiot & cie
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The walls contain fragments of murals, painted by Theodosius (1508) and others. The iconostasis includes icons of the 14th-17th centuries, including icons painted by Andrei Rublev, Feofan Grek and Prokhor.
The Cathedral of the Dormition (Russian: Успенский Собор, Uspensky Sobor) is the mother church of Muscovite Russia. Fioravanti was known as a structural engineer and the cathedral needed to be rebuilt following an earthquake. Commissioned by Ivan III, the layout of the building was dictate…
- Date Created:
- 1910-01-01
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- Creator(s):
- G. Massiot & cie
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The Cathedral of the Dormition (Russian: Успенский Собор, Uspensky Sobor) is the mother church of Muscovite Russia. Fioravanti was known as a structural engineer and the cathedral needed to be rebuilt following an earthquake. Commissioned by Ivan III, the layout of the building was dictated by Russian tradition and was required to be modelled in particular on the cathedral of the Dormition (rebuilt 1185-1189) in Vladimir-Suzdal’.
- Date Created:
- 1910-01-01
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- Creator(s):
- G. Massiot & cie
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Aleksandrovsky Hall and Andreyevsky Hall were combined in Soviet times to be used for meetings and conferences of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR; they were lavishly restored in accordance with Thon’s designs in the 1990s.
The Grand Kremlin Palace was formerly the tsar’s Moscow residence. Its construction involved the demolition of the previous Baroque palace on the site, designed by Rastrelli. It has a total area of about 25,000 square meters. It includes the earlier Terem Palace, ni…
- Date Created:
- 1910-01-01
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- Public
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- Creator(s):
- G. Massiot & cie
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Elizabeth I, having been proclaimed Empress, decided to reconstruct the estate: the architects Mikhail Zemtsov, Andrey Kvasov, Domenico Trezzini and Savva Chevakinsky rebuilt the palace as five buildings connected by galleries. The ensemble was again remodelled in 1751-1756, under the supervision of Bartolomeo Carlo Rastrelli, who created a majestic architectural composition. A central façade of immense length (300 m ), unbroken by any significant projection or change in height, was painted t…
- Date Created:
- 1910-01-01
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- Public