Architecture of Oblivion: Ruins and Historical Consciousness in Modern Russia

Index

absorption, 11, 91, 93, 118, 120, 179, 198, 205 Academy of Arts, 4 Adam, James, 32 Adamovich, Ales, 153 Adorno, Theodor, 17, 39, 40, 44, 121, 131 aestheticization of ruins, 13, 69, 104, 171, 178, 215, 222–23; aesthetic filter, 145; historical difference, 195 After an Air-Raid Alarm and Artillery Shelling in Leningrad, 1943 (Pavlov), 170 Akhmatova, Anna, 176 Albani, K., 31 Alekseev, Fedor, 33 Alexander Column, 102, 119, 120, 250n97 Alexander I, 18, 51, 57, 102, 240n22, 241n38 Al’tshuller, Mark, 56, 243n72 Angelus Novus (Klee), 16 antiquity, attitudes toward, 222, 224; 18th century, 4, 18; Christianity and, 93–94; fabricated antiquity, 82–83, 225 Antsiferov, N. P., 114 Apartments are Burning (Glebova), 164–65 Apollo Colonnade (Pavlovsk), 31 archaists, 241n47 architecture: architecture of past versus modern architecture, 112; authenticity , 211, 225; cinema and, 212; fascist, 194; international competitions, 197; modernist, 195; paper architecture, 196–218 passim; poetry and, 197; Stalinist, 194, 206; theatrical, 197; time versus timelessness, 194–95, 198; as trash, 195; vernacular architecture, 18 arkhitectons (Malevich), 130 Arkhitektura, 171 Arndt, Ernst Moritz, 49 Atarov, N. S., 194 Atrium (Brodsky and Utkin), 197 Augé, Marc, 17, 225 Augustus, 249n74 authenticity, 5, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, 30, 82, 90, 112, 114, 153, 186, 211, 225, 229 avant-garde, 126–31; linguistics, 129–30; movement, 129; ruins, 126–31; tablets of time, 130; throwing off past, 127 Avvakumov, Yury, 207–8 Bakst, Leon: Terror Antiquus, 253n57 Baranov, N. B, 143, 161, 177, 178, 260n44, 260n48, 263n109 Barskova, Polina, 145, 257n34, 257n36, 260n56 Bartuchev, Armen K., 174 Batiushkov, Konstantin, 77–83, 246nn22–24; “Excerpt from the Letters of a Russian Officer about Finland,” 80–81; “On the Ruins of a Castle in Sweden,” 77–80 Baturina, Elena, 225 Baudelaire, Charles, 113, 121 Baudrillard, Jean, 5, 17 Bazhenov, V., 18, 32, 226 Belyi, Andrei, 122–25, 195, 252n48; circularity, 252n51; messianic expectations, 122; novels of, 122–24; poetry of, 124–25 Belyi, Petr, 216–18, Danger Zone, 217, 217–18; Pinocchio’s Library, 216 Benjamin, Walter, 15–17, 71–72, 75, 104–5, 217, 221, 230, 245n99 Benois, Alexander, 109, 126, 144–45, 256n26 Berenshtam, F. G., 143 Berlin, Germany, 7 Bernshtein, Emmanuil B., 171, 172, 173 “Besieged City” (Shillingovskii), 162–64, 163 Index 274 Index binary terms, 221, 222; architecture of past versus modern architecture, 112; beauty versus economic progress, 24; individual versus state, 24; past versus present, 24; Russia versus West, 24; sign versus object, 24 Black Square (Malevich), 131 Blockade of Leningrad, 26, 152–82, 260n44, 260n56; documenting, 152–54, 171; and documentary film, 155–61, 258n23, 259n39; domestic scenes of, 162, 164–65; lifting of, 171–72; mythology of, 161; and photography , 153, 165–169; propaganda panels, 170–71; reaction after war of, 171–82, 262n93; representation of, 152–53; shows during, 169, 260n54 Bobyshov, Mikhail P., 164, 169, 179 Bogdanovich, Ippolit, 30–31, 35, 91, 125, 219 Bogorov, A. L., 155, 158, 259n32 Book of the Blockade (Adamovich and Granin), 153 Boratynskii, Evgenii, 83–84 Boullée, Etienne-Louis, 117 Bove, Osip, 32, 213 Boym, Svetlana, 146, 228, 230, 270n25 Berggol’ts, Ol’ga, 181 Brenna, Vincento, 32 Briullov, Aleksandr, 4, 19, 247n36 Briullov, Karl, 19, 25, 83–91, 113, 222 Brodsky, A. I.: photograph, 184 Brodsky, Alexander, 27, 196–218 passim, 216, 224; Futurophobia, 208; interest in clay, 207–8; Koma, 206–7; Palazzo Nudo, 267n14; work with Utkin, 196–206 Brodsky, Joseph, 107, 183–93, 184, 197, 223–24, 229, 264n6, 265nn9–18 —childhood, 183 —definition of art, 190 —elegy, 183, 190–91 —poems: “Contemporary Song,” 183–86, 207; “Dedicated to Piranesi,” 191–93; “Einem alten Architekten in Rom,” 186–89; “Piazza Mattei,” 189–90; “Roman Elegies,” 190–91; “To Urania,” 265n8 Bronze Horseman (Falconet), 152, 157 “Bronze Horseman, The” (Pushkin), 101–2 Buck-Morss, Susan, 245n99 Burke, Edmund, 8–16 passim, 96, 221, 232nn21–26 Byron, Lord (George Gordon), 95, 149, 193, 244n91, 248n61; Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, 95, 244n91, 248n61 Cameron, Charles, 31, 32 Capa, Robert, 177 Cathedral of St. Sophia, 19 Catherine the Great, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 220, 226, 244n90, 270n16 “Cave, The” (Zamiatin), 148–50 Chaadaev, Petr, 82 Chaos (Dobuzhinsky), 120–21 Charter of Venice, 22–23 Chekhov, Anton, 108, 200; Cherry Orchard, 108; “Old House, The,” 200 Chizhov, I. V., 90, 248n45 church destruction, 21, 196; of Istra, 171. See also specific churches Church of Saint Basil, 32 church restoration, 17–18, 19–20. See also specific churches cinema, influence on modernist architecture, 212 city...