При какой российской императрице в моду вошел стиль классицизм?
Catherine, who belonged to the European cosmopolitan class, during her long reign had set the tone of social life and intellectual of Russia. The Catherine's era was a turning point in education of nobility, in art and literature. The French became the court language and with the language came also the ideas of Enlightenment. Her embrace of the neo-classicism linked her capital to ancient Rome and this was particularly encouraged by poetic allusions to St. Petersburg as similar to the ancient city and the empress as Minerva. These Roman references must have galvanized her thinking, finally declaring in a 1770 letter to Frau Johanna Dorothea Bielcke:Augustus said that he found Rome built of brick and would leave it built of marble; I say that I found Petersburg virtually wooden and will leave its buildings dressed in marble. Scholars recognize that regardless of the motivation, Catherine found in architecture an embodiment for her aspirations particularly the so-called Greek Project, which aimed to take Istanbul to recreate a new Christian Byzantium. According to William Brumfield, the neoclassical revival in Russian architecture was an "expression of nostalgia for bygone cultural values, and a reformulated sense of imperial monumentality."
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