Arkhanguelskoe: Domaine des XVIII - XIX Siecles by Rapoport, Valerij Leonidovi (editor) - 1984

Leningrad: Editions d'Art Aurora, 1984. French text. Very well illustrated, tall quarto, pp 148, very clean internally, grey cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is a little worn and frayed with two internal sellotape repairs. [Arkhangelskoye is a historical estate in Krasnogorsky District, Moscow Oblast, Russia, located around 20 km to the west of Moscow and 2 km southwest of Krasnogorsk. From 1703 to 1810, Arkhangelskoye belonged to the Golitsyns. In 1810, Prince Nikolai Yusupov bought the estate, which stayed in the Yusupov family until the Russian Revolution. In 1917, the Yusupovs' property was nationalized by the Bolsheviks. Today, Arkhangelskoye is a state museum. The estate is built in a neoclassical style by Jacob Guerne, with the prominent palace facing the Moscow river and a regular terraced park decorated with many antique statues. Other structures of note include a small palace named the Caprice, monuments to Catherine the Great and Alexander Pushkin and an 18th-century theatre designed by famous Italian theater set designer Pietro Gonzaga (1751-1831). Arkhangelskoye's oldest building is the church of Archangel Michael (1646). Among the other buildings are Saint Gates (1825–26), the uncompleted "Colonnade" (constructed from 1909-16), which was intended to be a mausoleum for the elder son of the last Princess Yusupova and now as an exhibition hall, and two extensions of the sanatorium built in the 1930s. The estate is famous for its collection of fine art including paintings, sculptures, furnitures, ceramics and interior.]. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/A little worn and frayed.