Russian architecture of the transition period from classicism to eclecticism in the context of the infinite category

The article examines the architecture of the transition period from classicism to early eclecticism in the context of philosophical and aesthetic category of infinity, taking an important place in the systems of philosophers, art theorists, architecture of the Romantic era. The classicist architecture, notable for its finite character, and the architecture connected with Romantic ideal, affirming continual development, are examined from the position of contradiction of finite and infinite. There is a violation of compositional completeness in the late classicist architecture of the Eclecticism period. The concept of the infinite in the architecture of early Eclecticism found expression in the denial of stylistic limitation, the desire for a variety of forms, emphasizing the inseparable connection between the architectural object and the natural environment. Tendencies consisting in the lack of completeness, the possibility of development, are also characteristic of urban planning in the era of early Eclecticism.