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RUSCA, Carlo Luigi (1762-1822). Recueil des dessins de differens batimens construits a Saint-Petersbourg, et dans l'interieur de l'empire de Russie. St. Petersburg: Crapelet for Luigi Rusca, 1810.
2o (668 x 470 mm). Parallel text in French and Italian, 180 engraved plates (some light spotting and browning). Modern calf, gilt lettering-pieces on spine (lightly rubbed, particularly to lower spine).
FIRST EDITION of Rusca's plans and elevations of palaces, theatres, country houses, administrative and holy buildings in Russia, with selected drawings of their interiors. Of the Northern Italian architects working in St. Petersburg at the time, Luigi Rusca, with Carlo Rossi, made some of the most important contributions to the development of the city in the 19th century. The buildings include among many others: a design for the Admiralty, commissions for Volkonsky, Kotchoubey, and other nobles, quarters for the Cavalry Life Guards, Ismailovskii and Belozerskii regiments, and Strelna Palace, for which Rusca designed the upper stories. At one time Peter the Great's summer residence, and later the seat of the Konstantinovich family, Strelna has since 2001, by order of Vladimir Putin, served at the presidential residence in St Petersburg. Berlin Kat. 2775.
2o (668 x 470 mm). Parallel text in French and Italian, 180 engraved plates (some light spotting and browning). Modern calf, gilt lettering-pieces on spine (lightly rubbed, particularly to lower spine).
FIRST EDITION of Rusca's plans and elevations of palaces, theatres, country houses, administrative and holy buildings in Russia, with selected drawings of their interiors. Of the Northern Italian architects working in St. Petersburg at the time, Luigi Rusca, with Carlo Rossi, made some of the most important contributions to the development of the city in the 19th century. The buildings include among many others: a design for the Admiralty, commissions for Volkonsky, Kotchoubey, and other nobles, quarters for the Cavalry Life Guards, Ismailovskii and Belozerskii regiments, and Strelna Palace, for which Rusca designed the upper stories. At one time Peter the Great's summer residence, and later the seat of the Konstantinovich family, Strelna has since 2001, by order of Vladimir Putin, served at the presidential residence in St Petersburg. Berlin Kat. 2775.