DIMPLED DOMES

I cannot recall finding such a misapplied adjective in The Times as Dick Roraback’s description of cathedrals in his thumbnail review of “Before the Revolution: St. Petersburg in Photographs” (June 21): “Here are the broad boulevards, the callipygian cathedrals . . . “

Some of the tsarinas buried in the Cathedral of Peter and Paul may have had ample and well-formed buttockes (sic). Alas, flesh is transitory and there is nothing about that church, inside or out, that brings to mind such Titianesque glories.

E.H. DUNCAN DONOVAN

LOS ANGELES