Additional Reading

William Craft Brumfield, A History of Russian Architecture (Cambridge UP, 1993) and Landmarks of Russian Architecture: A Photographic Survey (Amsterdam: Gordon and Breach, 1997).

Alexander Opolovnikov and Yelena Opolovnikova, The Wooden Architecture of Russia: Houses, Fortifications, Churches. David Buxton, ed. and introd. Color photos by Vadim Gippenreiter. (NY: Abrams, 1989).

Elizabeth Gaynor and Kari Haavisto, with essays by Darra Goldstein, Russian Houses (New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1991). [Includes chapter on Novgorod’s restored log houses and chapter on twentieth-century wooden village houses.]

Evgenia Kirichenko, Russian Design and the Fine Arts 1750-1917. Compiled by Mikhail Ankkst (New York: Abrams, 1991). [Includes influence of folk architecture on professional architecture and the fine arts.]

Linda Ivanits, Russian Folk Belief (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1989). [With sections on the domovoi and other place-spirits.]

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