This book describes the professional ties between Soviet and British architects from the 1930s to the 1960s, from the moment when Intourist and the All-Union Society for Cultural Relations (VOKS) began to organize tours to the USSR for British specialists to the end of the Thaw and the period of postwar reconstruction. The official context is easier to read than the personal relationships. But behind the history of cultural diplomacy, which is sometimes logical and sometimes contradictory, even in the most difficult moments one can sense personal intonations. In the end, people communicate simply because they are lonely.
Ksenia Malich. “I Came, I Saw, I was Conquered!” Soviet and British Architects, 1930s–1960s
Garage publishing program
Author
Ksenia Malich (b. 1982, Leningrad) is an architectural historian who holds a Candidate of Art History degree and is the academic director of the masters program in the Design School of the Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg. From 2009 to 2019 she was a researcher at the State Hermitage Museum and curator of the architectural program of the project Hermitage 20/21. She is the author of the monographs and catalogues Nikolai Miturich, Leningrad Architect, The Golden Generation. Modernism and Finnish Architecture and Design, Dutch Architecture, 1945–2000, Sergei Eisenstein. «October» in the Winter Palace, and others. She lives and works in St. Petersburg.
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