“The Motives of Russian Architecture” was a magazine published in St. Petersburg from 1873 to 1880. It published projects of residential buildings, public buildings, furniture and decor created by followers of the Russian style. The goal of this movement was to revive the techniques and motifs of old Russian architecture.

After a series of European revolutions in 1848-1849, known as the Spring of Nations, the middle class was quickly becoming rich. They strived to have luxurious and rich interiors. Workshops and factories producing furniture and interior items tried to please wealthy customers. This is how a very magnificent movement in art and architecture arose, reviving the traditions and features of earlier eras of Russian style. Source: humus.

In old times in Rus’, churches and chapels, fortresses and palaces, houses and outbuildings, towns and villages were built from wood. The whimsical silhouettes of wooden buildings formed wonderful architectural ensembles and were in amazing harmony with each other and the surrounding nature.

Russian wooden architecture is truly a folk art that has reached heights of mastery that amaze the imagination. You can see that this architecture is very similar and harmonizes with Russian folk embroidery and lace art. It turns out that women embroidered and weaved, and men carved and forged, but in essence both of them were doing the same thing. They just worked with different materials.

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