CONTENTS
A LSO BY J ONATHAN M ILES
The Nine Lives of Otto Katz
Medusa The Shipwreck, The Scandal, The Masterpiece
Backgrounds to David Jones
Eric Gill and David Jones at Capel-y-Ffin
The Maker Unmade
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. The Menshikov Palace in 1717.
. Map of St Petersburg, c. 171820. The gridding of Vasilevksy Island was, at that stage, a mere projection.
The evolution from the residual influences of a highly decorative baroque architecture through the early, vigorous phase of neoclassicism and on into more sophisticated variations on the style.
. St. John the Baptist Church at Chesme now absorbed by southern St Petersburg
. The stark Tuscan Doric columns of New Holland Arch
. The tower over the central arch of the Admiralty
. The Palace of Pavlovsk
. The Mikhailovsky Palaces main staircase.
. The Bronze Horseman in Senate Square, unveiled in 1782. A print by K. Ludwig after Benjamin Paterssen.
. A fair in St Petersburg, c. 1803, from A Picturesque Representation of the Manners, Customs and Amusements of the Russians in One Hundred Coloured Plates by John Atkinson and James Walker.
. The Nevsky Prospekts Police Bridge over the Moika with Wolff & Branger caf on the left.
. The Mikhailovsky Palace, now the Russian Museum.
. A. P. Bogolubovs Sledging on the Neva, 1854.
. Postcard of the Mariinsky Theatre, which opened in 1860.
. Pyotr Vereshchagin, The Alexandrinsky Theatre, 1870s.
. Postcard of the Eliseev building, which went up on the Nevsky Prospekt between 1902 and 1903.
. The almost palatial stil moderne interior of Vitebsk Station, created between 1902 and 1904.
. Postcard of the Nevsky Prospekt, c. 1909.
That these three items appeared within a year of each other reveals the gulf between the tsarist assertion of the past and the desire of Russias performers and painters for a revolutionary future.
. Menu for the banquet to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the Romanov Dynasty in 1913.
. Auguste Rodins maquette for a sculpture of Nijinsky, The Dancer, 1912.