Samsung S7 again + rare example of civil russian baroque (sometimes named
Нарышкинское барокко after boyarin Naryshkin who ordered
this piece). Petr I (better known abroad as "Peter the Great") forced to build in style which is called now
Петровское барокко and this is kind of shame – there are actually no structures left after him which deserve a second thought, while there are several remarkable structures (churches mainly) in built in russian baroque style.
PS We have a bad tradition of forcing architecture styles which caused a great damage in a future.
1) First known was patriarch Nikon who forced allowed styles for churches. The recovery took about 40 years.
2) Petr I who promoted subpar british and dutch style of architecture. This destroyed architecture schools and the recovery took about 150 years.
3) Stalin who ordered to abandon any work on constructivism and switch into classic-based structures (classicism → empire style → art deco). In the end the constructivism formed the face of all modern architecture and becomes one of the brightest contribution of russian civilization into mankind (others are arc wielding, television, the science of aerodynamics). We haven't recovered yet: slavic people are all anarchists and don't even try to respect others. So customers who order building don't respect designers and order to build utter crap.
Post #1143 by Jonathan Mac
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