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Architecture · 1748–1764 · Saint Petersburg · Eastern Europe & Russia

Rastrelli dressed the Russian five-dome plan in Baroque ornament, an emblem of the style

Author

Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli

Style

Elizabethan Baroque — Rastrelli's lavish court Baroque: turquoise-and-white palaces with gilding on Russian soil

Century

18th century

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Made around the same time (±30 years)

• 1745–1747 Sanssouci — Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff · Rococo · Potsdam
• 1745–1754 Wieskirche — Dominikus Zimmermann · Rococo · Steingaden, Bavaria
• 1752–1756 Catherine Palace — Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli · Elizabethan Baroque · Tsarskoye Selo (Pushkin)
• 1754–1762 Winter Palace — Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli · Elizabethan Baroque · Saint Petersburg
• 1758–1790 Panthéon — Jacques-Germain Soufflot · Neoclassicism · Paris
• 1759 Candide — Voltaire · Geneva
• c. 1760 Dream of the Red Chamber — Cao Xueqin · Beijing
• 1733–1749 Mass in B minor — Johann Sebastian Bach · Baroque · Leipzig

What was happening in the world

• 1755 Lisbon earthquake
• c. 1760 Start of the Industrial Revolution
• 1747 Ahmad Shah Durrani founds the Afghan state
• 1756–1763 Seven Years' War
• 1757 Battle of Plassey
• 1762 Accession of Catherine the Great