Architectural Heritage of Russia. Lev Kekushev

The illustrated album introduces readers with the works of the Moscow architect Leo Nikolaevich Kekushev (1862 - 1917), one of the outstanding masters of the Modern style. Authorship L.N. Kekushev belongs to unique buildings in Moscow and other Russian cities, many of whom are considered beautiful buildings of old Russia. Among the Kkuchev customers were the famous entrepreneurs and pattering of the 19th-20th centuries, including Savva Mamontov, who ordered the design and construction of a complex of buildings for the Vologda-Arkhangelsk railway. However, Kekushev became famous as the creator of magnificent mansions. Projects and buildings that make up the huge creative legacy of Lev Kekushev, in this book for the first time they are so largely and allow us to consider the work of the architect most fully. The publication is illustrated by modern and archival photographic materials, drawings and projects, many of which are unique and not published earlier