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Winter Palaces of Peter I: Architecture and Decorations, Events and People
G.V. Mikhaylov
St Petersburg State University, Faculty of Philology Ed., 2002

The book by the St Petersburg architect G.V. Mikhaylov, winner of the National Award of the Russian Federation, describes the history of the three Winter Palaces of Peter I from 1708 to the 1730s. "G.V. Mikhaylov’s book recapitulates the many years of research made by his colleagues and predecessors, dedicated to the construction of the first palaces in St Petersburg," says Mikhail B. Piotrovsky in the foreword. Containing 224 pages, the book includes over two hundred full-color and black-and-white illustrations, some of which reproduce for the first time the author’s reconstructions, chronological lists, a vocabulary of architectural terms, resume in English and appendices.
The appendices include articles about the history of the Winter Palaces by Ye.M. Bazhenova, V.Yu. Matveyev, Yu.M. Denisov, N.V. Kalyazina and G.V. Dluzhnevskaya, and an in memoriam article by G.V. Vilinbakhov commemorating Ye.M. Bazhenova.
The book also contains unique materials from the Archive of Photographs of the Institute of History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences.

Winter Palaces
of Peter I
The book
by G.V. Mikhaylov