Neoclassicism is part of a retrospective aesthetics that smoldered throughout the 19th century and developed into a powerful chord of the Russian neoampire of the 1910s. Neoclassicism manifested itself as a neo-Greek in the second third of the 19th century, in the new Hermitage of Leo Klenz, the opera house of Riga in the 1880s, in the after-fire interiors of the winter palace. Exists as part of the intrigue of balance and stability in an era of total historical fascination.