About the book: year / What connects the cathedrals of Ancient Rus', Soviet palaces of culture and modern residential areas? How can we learn to “read” buildings from different centuries and see in them the continuity of tradition, innovation and complex relationships between customers and performers? Is it possible to have a pre-colonial view of Russian architecture, whose most impressive works were meant to demonstrate the power and scale of the empire, absorbing influences from all the territories under its control? Architectural historian Lev Maciel Sanchez writes about how wooden and stone architecture reflected the tastes of princes, kings and general secretaries, international politics, the fate of individual architects, features of geography and building materials. “Domes, Palaces, Houses of Culture” does not stop at the construction of the capital, showing how the peoples inhabiting the country could develop national architecture in conditions of subordination to the Russian state. The publishing layout of the book is saved in PDF A4 format.