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The book is devoted to the history of European and Russian architecture at the end of the 17th – 18th centuries, the period, which is usually called the Age of the Enlightenment, as well as to the origins of the architectural culture of this time in England, France, the German states and Russia. The architectural monuments are being researched in this work together with creative biographies of the main masters and their theoretical views. The study is mainly based on primary sources. The book contains numerous texts of treatises of the Enlightenment era in the author’s translation. For architects, art historians and the general public interested in the history of architecture in Western Europe and Russia.

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Д. О. Швидковский