Памятники архитектуры Ленинграда

The State Inspectorate for the Protection of Monuments of Leningrad, publishing this book, included in it all the objects in the city that are under state protection. The publication is based on the materials of detailed certification of monuments carried out during 1946-1949. a team of scientific workers of the Inspectorate. The first part of the book contains the historical and artistic characteristics of the ensembles and the structures included in them, the second - annotations of individual monuments, arranged, if possible, in chronological order. In conclusion, alphabetical, topographic and nominal indexes are given. The abstract prefaces an introductory essay on the characteristics of the evolution of Russian architecture in connection with the history of the construction of Leningrad over two and a half centuries. With illustrations and map.