sentences:  An early extant example in civil architecture is the wooden in Devichye Pole, Moscow, by Nikolai Nikitin (1856).The Emancipation reform of 1861 and subsequent reforms of Alexander II pushed the liberal elite into exploring the roots of national culture.The first result of these studies in architecture was a birth of "folk" or Pseudo-Russian style, exemplified by 1870s works of Ivan Ropet (Terem in , 1873) and Viktor Hartmann (Mamontov printing house, 1872).