[ARCHITECTURE – IMPERIAL ST. PETERSBURG] Ezhegodnik Obshchestva arkhitektorov-khudozhnikov: vypusk vos'moi [Yearbook of the Society of artists-architects: volume eight] (1913).

St. Petersburg: Izdanie pravleniia Obshchestva arkhitektorov khudozhnikov, 1913. Quarto (30 × 20 cm). Original decorative cloth-backed wrappers; 1–56; 251; 57–106 pp. on coated stock. Illustrations, some in color. Light soil and fading to wrappers; creases to upper right corner; binding shaken; starting at extremities; still good. Item #54838

Single volume of a series of yearbooks of the Imperial Society of Architects and Artists, begun in 1906 and suspended during the tumultuous years around the Bolshevik revolution. Presenting hundreds of illustrations, including plans, elevations, renderings, photographs and color plates of recent architecturаl competitions, diploma works of graduates of the Imperial Architectural Academy in St. Petersburg, as well as material on historical works, the yearbooks give a fine overview of developments in architecture and planning in pre-Revolutionary Russia, as well as significant material on historical works. Most of the works presented are substantial public projects, both secular and religious. Of special interest in this volume are Fyodor Lidval’s design for the main railway station in Kyiv, and various designs for the jubilee agricultural and technical exhibition in Yaroslavl’, in honor of the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty. With 106 pp. of advertisements of related products and services at beginning and end of volume. After the Revolution the yearbooks resumed publication in 1927–1935, dropping the “Imperial” from the title, and most of the advertising. The Society was eventually disbanded after the creation of the Union of Soviet Architects in 1932, with the last two volumes of the yearbooks (vol. 13–14) nevertheless published in 1935.

As of January 2025, KVK, OCLC show seven copies of this volume in North America.

Price: €750.00

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