Glossary entry

Russian term or phrase:

русско-византийский стиль

English translation:

Russo-Byzantine style

Added to glossary by Igor Timko
Apr 15, 2010 08:26
14 yrs ago
Russian term

русско-византийский стиль

Russian to English Science Architecture
Контекст: "По проекту архитектора И. А. Монигетти в ***русско-византийском стиле*** была возведена его (Политехнического музея в Москве) центральная часть."

A variant: "the Russian Revival style", which is however a more general thing
Proposed translations (English)
3 +3 Russo-Byzantine style
4 +2 Russian Byzantine architectural style

Proposed translations

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Russo-Byzantine style

or "Russian Neo-Byzantine style"

Please see refs. in the text of the Wiki.

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Note added at 54 mins (2010-04-15 09:21:00 GMT)
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Or "Russian Byzantine Revival" (ibid.)
Peer comment(s):

agree Maria Fokin : http://www.essential-architecture.com/STYLE/STY-012.htm
4 mins
agree Louise Watkins
8 mins
agree Judith Hehir
4 hrs
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Russian Byzantine architectural style

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http://eng.polymus.ru/?s=18&lvl=1
History of Polytehcnical Museum
...By the project of architect I. A. Monigetti was erected the central part of the Museum in Russian-Byzantine style. In the same 1877 the collections were removed to their permanent place...

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Другая ссылка. Не уверен, может быть это тоже не из English speakers.
http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=118&int_index=25
The importance of the Russian Byzantine architectural style is founded in its religious development. Kievan Rus was converted to Christianity in 988.
Russian Byzantine architecture took on many characteristics uniquely their own. Modifications to Byzantine designs in northern Russian churches were required by the heavy snowfalls...


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http://www.archaeolink.com/byzantine_architecture.htm
...While many of these Byzantine architecture photos are of such items as Russian Byzantine and modern structures, there are still many Byzantine pictures of buildings from the Byzantine Empire proper.
Peer comment(s):

agree Jack Doughty
16 mins
Thank you!
agree Jim Tucker (X) : Maybe, but that link was not written by an English speaker. // Yes, these other references are better. // Good Wiki articles describe a consensus, rather than an individual opinion on a subject.
46 mins
Thank you for agree! Я в курсе. Он неприемлем для native speaker? Мне кажется, он не менее часто употребляется и имеет право на существование. //Пусть будет так.
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Reference comments

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Reference:

Ivan IV (the Terrible) builds St. Basil's Cathedral, Red Square, Moscow; painted onion domes become symbol of Russia, epitome of Russo-Byzantine architecture
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/russiatime5.html

For all of its neoclassical rigor, the cathedral also reflects elements or Russo-Byzantine Architecture not only in the centralized plan, but also the appearance on the exterior corners of crched bays reminiscent of the cathedrals of twelfth century Novgorod.
Landmarks of Russian architecture: a photographic survey
by William Craft Brumfield
page 181

Russo-Byzantine Architecture
The first phase of Russian architecture (1000-1500) derived from Byzantine Architecture of Greece; It consisted mainly of stone churches characterized by cruciform plans and multiple bulbous domes.
Illustrated dictionary of architecture
by Ernest E. Burden
pg 284
http://books.google.it/books?id=WJnFrUkvYBAC&pg=PA284&lpg=PA...
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