Adam Menelas
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(Redirigé depuis Adam Menelaws)
Adam Menelas (ou Adam Menelaws, Адам Адамович Менелас) est un architecte écossais, qui fit carrière dans la Russie des tsars. Né entre 1748 et 1756, probablement à Édimbourg, il meurt le à Saint-Pétersbourg.
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Bibliographie
[modifier | modifier le code]- Colvin, Howard (1995) A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840. Yale University Press. (ISBN 0-300-06091-2)
- Anthony Glenn Cross, « In Cameron's Shadow: Adam Menelaws, Stonemason turned architect », Scottish Slavonic Review, , p. 7–21
- Cross, Anthony Glenn, By the Banks of the Neva: Chapters from the Lives and Careers of the British in Eighteenth-century Russia, Cambridge University Press, (ISBN 0-521-55293-1)
- Hayden, Peter, Russian Parks and Gardens, Frances Lincoln, (ISBN 0-7112-2430-7)
- (ru) Kuznetsov, S. O., « Adam Menelas na rossiyskoy zemle (Адам Менелас на российской земле. Возможные пути интерпретации творчества архитектора императора Николая I) », The Philosophical Age. Almanac 6. Russia at the Time of Nicholas I: Science, Politics, Enlightenment. Ed. by T. Khartanovich, M. Mikeshin. St. Petersburg, 1998,
- Dmitry Shvidkovsky, « Architect to three emperors. Adam Menelas in Russia », Apollo, vol. 135, , p. 36–41
- Shvidkovsky, Dmitry, The Empress & the Architect: British Architecture and Gardens at the Court of Catherine the Great, Yale University Press, (ISBN 0-300-06564-7) (biography of Charles Cameron)