CATHERINE THE GREAT: THE ARCHITECTURAL BIOGRAPHY
Journal: Scientific and analytical journal Burganov House The space of culture
Year: 2023

The paper deals with the problem of architectural agenda of Russian empress Catherine the Great. The keen interess fo the empress was to create an ideal word full of images of great civilizations of the past particulary of Roman empire. At the same tiem she thought of the buildings created in the days of her reigning as “future antiquity”. It was necessary for her to impart properties of a classical ideal to her actions and structures. Taking herself mentally off from the present at the distance