Dvorets Sovetov (the Palace of the Soviets) by B. Iofan and Its Romantic Component
The article deals with romantic tendencies in the final version of Moscow Dvorets Sovetov (the Palace of the Soviets) in 1934 and 1937 - 1940. The author reveals a certain stylistic relationship with another unrealized project of the early XIXth century - the project of Christ the Savior Cathedral by artist A.L. Vitberg. Both projects were artistic symbols of transitional era - from rational way of thinking to irrational artistic image, from classicism to romantic, from Modernism to romanticized Soviet neoclassicism.