Russian Modernization in East Anatolia: The Case of Kars
On the Armenian border of Turkey, Kars was under the rule of tsarist Russia between the years 1877 and 1917. In this period, Kars was rebuilt with a gridded urban plan and furnished with magnificent churches and other public buildings. This article studies the urban and architectural history of Kars...
| Τόπος έκδοσης: | Muqarnas |
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| Τύπος μέσου: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο |
| Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
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Brill
[2020]
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Muqarnas
Έτος: 2020, Τόμος: 37, Τεύχος: 1, Σελίδες: 247-264 |
| Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά: | B
model project for army churches
B War memorials B tsarist Russia B Russian colonization B Kars B Nineteenth Century B Russian modernization B nineteenth-century Russain architecture B modernity and city planning B military churches B South Caucasus B modernity and urbanism |
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| Σύνοψη: | On the Armenian border of Turkey, Kars was under the rule of tsarist Russia between the years 1877 and 1917. In this period, Kars was rebuilt with a gridded urban plan and furnished with magnificent churches and other public buildings. This article studies the urban and architectural history of Kars in order to gain a deeper understanding of the complex relations between modernity, Russian colonization, and the memories of the city’s traumatic past. An embryo of modern urban bourgeois life emerged in Kars during the Russian occupation. Symbols of urban modernity—regular street patterns, European-style buildings, public squares, city parks, monuments decorating public spaces, macadamized streets and squares, public spaces lit at night, a vivid cultural life, banks and loans, shops with luxury goods—all came to fruition in Kars at this time, not only to modernize the city, but also to lighten its depressed look. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-8993 |
| Περιλαμβάνει: | Enthalten in: Muqarnas
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/22118993-00371P09 |