Temples of Russia. William Craft Brumfield (529 photos)

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William Craft Brumfield (born June 28, 1944) is a modern American historian of Russian architecture, photographer, local historian of the Vologda region, defender of architectural monuments, author of books and articles on the problems of preserving the architecture of the Russian North. Professor of Slavic Studies at Tulane University.

W. C. Broomfield grew up in the Southern United States. Reading Russian novels, he became interested in Russia. After receiving a bachelor's degree from Tulane University in 1966 and a master's degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1968, he first visited the USSR in 1970 to study architectural photography, which he then took up seriously in 1974. W. C. Broomfield received his PhD in Slavic Studies from the University of California at Berkeley in 1973, after which he served as an assistant professor at Harvard University from 1974 to 1980.

In 1983, W. K. Broomfield, who had previously worked in general Slavic studies, began to master the history of architecture, which led to the publication of his first book, “Gold in azure: one thousand years of Russian architecture.”

W. C. Broomfield lived in the USSR and Russia for a total of about 9 years, conducting research in collaboration with Moscow State University and St. Petersburg State University, as well as traveling around the Russian North and photographing surviving monuments of traditional architecture, in particular the Vologda wooden architecture, as well as churches of Vologda and the Vologda region.

W. K. Broomfield donated his collection of approximately 1,100 photographs of architectural monuments of the Russian North, taken in 1999-2003, to the US Library of Congress; its archives were subsequently digitized.

In 2000, W. C. Broomfield was awarded the Guggenheim Prize in the Humanities (Russian History). He has been a full member of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences since 2002 and an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts since 2006. In 2011, the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications at the 7th All-Russian competition of regional and local history literature “Small Motherland” awarded W. K. Broomfield a special diploma “for many years of research and cultural and educational activities for the preservation and popularization of the cultural heritage of Russian regions".