Architecture of Russian Provincial Theatres of the Second Half of the 19th Century in the Regional and Global Aspects of Culture

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10.2991/icassee-18.2018.98How to use a DOI?

Keywords

theatre architecture; theatre culture; architecture of the second half of the XIX century; provincial cities; theatre buildings

Abstract

The article is devoted to the history of the provincial theatres’ architecture of the Russian Empire in the second half of the XIX century. Author shows that the development of urban culture and interest in theatrical art lead to the construction of theatre buildings in provincial and district towns. Theatres became a material expression of high economic status of the city and a symbol of the development of spiritual culture of the citizens. A comparative analysis of European and Russian theatre buildings allows us to conclude that the preference was given to similar volumetric, spatial and stylistic concepts in the theatre architecture of this period. Meanwhile, the birth of the national Russian theatre which coincided with the increased attention to the forms of national architecture determined Russian designers and customers to turn to the Russian style in theatre architecture.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Olga Baeva
PY  - 2018/12
DA  - 2018/12
TI  - Architecture of Russian Provincial Theatres of the Second Half of the 19th Century in the Regional and Global Aspects of Culture
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Art Studies: Science, Experience, Education (ICASSEE 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 480
EP  - 484
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/icassee-18.2018.98
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