By Christopher Marsden
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A picture of Moscow, in that perspective, is to be found in the Travels of Macarius, the Syrian archbishop, who journeyed to Russia in the middle years of the seventeenth century. His book is inimitable to read. It is the equal of, and contemporary to Madame d’Aulnoy’s Voyage en Espagne Italian, German, and Dutch architects worked on the walls and towers of the Kremlin, and the churches. Yet this is no Milan, or Nuremburg, or Amsterdam. Macarius describes for us the giant Patriarch Nikhon, and the naked anchorites seated at the banquet beside the fur-clad boyars.
The Russian art historian, Prince G. Lukhomski, has made drawings of his buildings and written most interesting articles upon Cameron, upon whom a long and detailed book is overdue. He worked for the Empress at Tsarskoe Selo, and at Pavlovsk, built by her for her son Paul I. For Cameron had something of the universal genius of Robert Adam. His designs for furniture and interior decoration were carried out in the workshops of the Imperial palaces where a number of skilled craftsmen were employed.
PALMYRA OF THE NORTH The First Days of St. Petersburg ELIZABETH, EMPRESS OF RUSSIA, 1741-62 Daughter of Peter the Great CHRISTOPHER MARSDEN PALMYRA OF THE NORTH The First Days of St. C. 1 Printed in Great Britain by R. 0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} by Sacheverell Sitwell It is important, at the outset, that this book should not be regarded as a mere compilation of extravagances.
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