PUSHKIN, Russia -- Twelve miles south of St. Petersburg, ... The most famous building, though, is the Catherine Palace, a stunning example of Russian baroque architecture.

Since its founding 300 years ago, the Russian city of St. Petersburg has been home to generations of artists, musicians and writers, luminaries such as Tolstoy, Dostoevski and Rimsky-Korsakov. It r… ...

Northern Russia had its own version of the baroque style, more restrained. A fine example of it is the Church of Entry into Jerusalem in Totma (1794). The Church of Entry into Jerusalem in Totma ...

On May 6, William Craft Brumfield - professor of Slavic Studies at Tulane University - gave a lecture on Russian architecture as part of a public symposium at the University of Washington, Seattle ...

Moscow (AsiaNews) - Sacred architecture in Russia is experiencing a fruitful period, starting in the 1990s, when construction of new churches began after more than 70 years of communism.

NEW YORK, N.Y. - Christian Siriano is going to the opera. The "Project Runway" alum used the Russian opera as the inspiration for his fall runway show at New York Fashion Week, though he has never ...

Strictly speaking, Baroque architecture refers to an opulent architectural style born in Italy in the late 16th century. “It’s a very broad term used for European architecture of the 17th and ...