Russia Renaissance

• Began almost a century after it started in Italy, thus Russian Renaissance is described as delayed renaissance
• Naryshkin Baroque a.k.a. Moscow Baroque or Muscovite Baroque
• Naryshkin Baroque - style of Baroque favoured in Moscow, was derived from Peter’s maternal side, the Naryshkin
• Naryshkin Baroque - fusion of vernacular Russian Architecture with European Baroque Elements
• Naryshkin Baroque - Greek cross with 5 gold couples
• Church of the Intercession of the Virgin - elegant with white stone laces
• Petrovsky Palace - overnight residence of royal journeys from St. Petersburg to Moscow
• Petrine Baroque - style favoured by Peter the Great in the newly founded Russian capital, St. Petersburg and represented a drastic rupture with Byzantine traditions
• Peterhof Imperial Palace also known as Petrodvorets
• Peterhof Imperial Palace - official state residence of the Russian Royalty
• Elizabethan Baroque also known as Rastrellian Baroque
• Elizabethan Baroque - Russian Rococo style during the reign of Elizabeth of Russia
• Elizabethan Baroque - key figure was Bartolomeo Restrelli
• Catherine Palace Facade - Blue and white facade with gilded atlantes and caryatids plus 100kg of gold on the exteriors