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1783 - 1789
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Saint Petersburg
Главный фасад здание Академии наук.
Фото Д. Селивохина, 2014.

Main facade of the building of Academy of sciences.
Photo credit D. Selivokhin, 2014.
Общий вид здания Академии наук.
Фото Д. Селивохина, 2014.

General view of the building of Academy of sciences.
Photo credit D. Selivokhin, 2014.
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Phenomenon of classical architecture comes from an impressive multivariance of it would seem a small set of architectural motives and specific order canons. Heritage of two leading maestros of Catherine era - Italian Giacomo Quarenghi and Scotch Chales Cameron, serves as a spectacular example of this fact.

Architectural forms by G. Quarenghi - are an example of the most strict classicism. It is not by chance that he created big public buildings of Saint Petersburg: Academy of sciences, State Assignat bank, Smolny Institute.
The facade of Academy of sciences is a vivid incarnetion of classical formula: "noble simplicity and calm splendour". Here laconism and semblant simplicity of the order architecture are brought up to the absolute.