Exhibition "Three Centuries of Architecture of St. Petersburg"

The exhibition "Three Centuries of Architecture of St. Petersburg" is open at the Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology  in the Reading room for catalogs, reference publications and bibliography of the main library building from May 3 to June 4, 2024.

The publications presented at the exhibition highlight the historical development of the architectural environment of the city of St. Petersburg from the 18th century to the present day.

The exhibition consists of three sections. The first section of the exhibition tells about the influence of various architectural styles on the appearance of the city, about the formation of its unique character, the special spatiality of St. Petersburg, about the history of the creation of famous buildings and monuments that amaze with their beauty and grandeur, demonstrating a variety of architectural solutions. From the second section, you can learn about outstanding architects, their realized creations and projects, as well as get acquainted with lesser-known, but no less talented masters of the city on the Neva. The task of the third section of the exhibition is to expand the usual boundaries of ideas about St. Petersburg architecture, to tell about suburbs, parks, bridges and unique industrial buildings, which, along with famous ensembles, form the unique appearance of the city.

During the preparation of the exhibition, publications from the fund of the Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology were used: monographs, reference books, textbooks, illustrated albums, as well as publications from electronic library systems ibooks.ru, Lan, ZNANIUM, IPR SMART digital educational resource, online library of electronic and audiobooks LitRes: Library, scientific electronic library eLIBRARY.RU .

The bibliographic list of references can be found by direct link or in the Readers /Thematic exhibitions section.