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The Restoration of Russian Architectural Monuments*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Igor Grabar
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Now that the Red Army has driven the last fascist aggressors from our country, the time has come to think of the restoration of those fine monuments of art and antiquity which the German vandals outraged in malicious frenzy. Some few items have already been restored. Of various other monuments which astonished the world by their perfection, nothing is left but their foundations, but we can and must recreate at any cost whatever has in any degree survived. The world has never before witnessed a restoration task of such grandiose dimensions as confronts our country in the next decades.

In its aims, the theory and practice of the modern scientific restoration of artistic monuments is considerably different from the practice of the mid-nineteenth century.

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American Slavic and East European Review , Volume 4 , Issue 1-2 , August 1945 , pp. 182 - 184
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 1945

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For the information of American lovers of Russian architecture, this article by one of the greatest Soviet authorities on art history has been translated from Sovetskoe Iskusslvo, No. 4 (928), November 28, 1944. The information given on the state of the great monuments at Pushkino will be welcome to every pre-war tourist.

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* Subsequent advices (December 12, 1944) indicate that the main building of the University of Leningrad, originally Trezzini's structure for the so-called “Twelve Colleges” (i.e., the government departments of Peter I's day), the unique extant example of Petrine baroque, has not only been repaired after severe damage from shells and splinters, but has also been repainted dark red with white trimmings. The residence of the Rector and the building occupied by the Philosophical Faculty have also been restored.