Vasily Stasov

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Vasily Stasov

Vasily Petrovich Stasov (Russian: ??????? ???????? ??????) (1769–1848), Russia

Russia

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n architect

Architect

An architect is trained and licenced in planning and designing buildings, and participates in supervising the construction of a building. Etymologically, architect derives from the Latin architectus, itself derived from the Greek arkhitekton , i.e....
, extensively travelled in France

France

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and Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
, where he became professor of St Luke Academy in Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
. On his return home, he was elected to the Imperial Academy of Arts

Imperial Academy of Arts

The Russian Academy of Arts, informally known as the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, was opened by Count Ivan Shuvalov under the name Academy of the Three Noblest Arts in 1757....
(1811). Among his earlier works, we should mention the Gruzino

Gruzino

The Gruzino estate near Chudovo, Russia, was constructed by a team of Neoclassical architecture architects under Vasily Petrovich Stasov for Count Alexey Arakcheyev in the 1810s....
estate near Novgorod: it was built for Count Alexey Arakcheyev in the 1810s and completely destroyed during the World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
fighting.

While developing guidelines for other architects, Stasov advocated making even the most trivial of buildings—barracks, storehouses, stables—look imposing and monumental.

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Vasily Petrovich Stasov (Russian: ??????? ???????? ??????) (1769–1848), Russia

Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
n architect

Architect

France

Italy

Rome

Imperial Academy of Arts

Gruzino

World War II

Chinese Village (Tsarskoe Selo)

The Chinese Village in the Alexander Park of Tsarskoe Selo, Russia was Catherine the Great's attempt to follow the 18th-century fashion for the Chinoiserie....
. After the great fire of 1820, he was entrusted to remodel in the Neoclassical

Neoclassicism

Neoclassicism is the name given to quite distinct Cultural movement in the Decorative art and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw upon Western classical art and culture ....
style some premises of the baroque

Baroque

In the the arts, the Baroque was a Western cultural Epoch , starting roughly at the beginning of the 17th century in Rome, Italy. It was exemplified by drama and grandeur in Baroque sculpture, Baroque painting, literature, Baroque dance, and Baroque music....
Catherine Palace

Catherine Palace

The Catherine Palace is the Rococo summer residence of the Russian tsars, located in the town of Tsarskoye Selo , 25 km south-east of Saint Petersburg, Russia....
.

Stasov's first important commissions in the capital were the Transfiguration

Transfiguration Cathedral (Saint Petersburg)

Transfiguration Cathedral is an Eastern Orthodox Church cathedral belonging to the Diocese of St. Petersburg. It is located on Transfiguration Square , just off Liteyny Prospekt near the Chernyshevskaya metro station....
and the Trinity cathedral

Cathedral

A cathedral is a Christian church that contains the seat of a bishop. It is a Religion building for worship, specifically of a denomination with an episcopal hierarchy, such as the Roman Catholic Church, Anglicanism, Orthodox Christian and some Lutheranism churches, which serves as a bishop's seat, and thus as the central church of a dioc...
s for the regiments of the Russian Imperial Guard

Russian Imperial Guard

Leib Guard were military units serving as personal Russian Guards of the Emperor of Russia. Peter I of Russia founded the first such units following the Prussian practice in the 1690s, to replace the politically-motivated Streltsy....
. The interior decoration of the Smolny Cathedral also belongs to him.

Stasov was the forerunner of official Russian Revival

Russian Revival

The Russian Revival style is the generic term for a number of different movements within Russian architecture, that arose in second quarter of the 19th century and was an eclectic melding of Peter I of Russia Russian architecture and elements of Byzantine architecture....
of Nicholas I

Nicholas I of Russia

Nicholas I , , was the Emperor of Russia from 1825 until 1855, known as one of the most reactionary of the List of Russian rulers. On the eve of his death, the Russian Empire reached its historical zenith spanning over 20 million square kilometres....
period, with his Alexander Nevsky church in Potsdam

Potsdam

Potsdam is the capital city of the Germany States of Germany of Brandenburg and is part of the Metropolitan area of Berlin/Brandenburg. It is situated on the River Havel, some 25 kilometres southwest of the center of Berlin....
(1826, complementing his Alexandrovka project in this suburb of Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
) and a larger Church of the Tithes

Church of the Tithes

The Church of the Tithes or Church of the Dormition of the Virgin was the first stone church in Kiev. It was built by the order of Grand Prince Vladimir I of Kiev between 989 and 996 by Byzantine Empire and local workers to commemorate the Baptism of Kievan Rus' and was originally named the "Church of Our Lady", in honor of the D...
in Kiev

Kiev

Kiev, also known as Kyiv , is the Capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River....
(1828). The latter, a ponderous edifice with Byzantine and Russian features, was erected on the spot of the first church of Kievan Rus'

Kievan Rus'

Kievan Rus' , also written as Kyivan Rus', was a medieval state which existed from approximately 880 to the middle of the 12th century. Founded by the Scandinavian traders called "Rus' " and centered in the city of Kiev , Rus' polity is considered an early predecessor of three modern East Slavs nations: Belarusians, Russians, and Ukrai...
and contained the relics of Saint Vladimir until its destruction by Bolsheviks in the 1930s.

During the reign of Nicholas I

Nicholas I of Russia

Moscow Triumphal Gates

The Moscow Triumphal Gate is a Neoclassical architecture triumphal arch in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The monument ? built mainly in cast iron ? was erected in 1834 -1838 in the memory of the Russian victory in the Russo-Turkish War, 1828-1829....
and Narva Triumphal Gate

Narva Triumphal Gate

The Narva Triumphal Gate was erected in the vast Narva Square , Saint Petersburg, in 1814 to commemorate the Russian victory over Napoleon. The wooden structure was constructed on the Narva highway with the purpose of greeting the soldiers who were returning from abroad after their victory over Napoleon....
s in St Petersburg and the present-day Presidential Palace

Presidential Palace, Vilnius

The Presidential Palace , located in Vilnius Old Town, is the official residence of the President of Lithuania. The palace dates back to the 14th century and during its history it has undergone various reconstructions, supervised by prominent architects, including Laurynas Gucevicius and Vasily Stasov....
in Vilnius

Vilnius

Vilnius is the largest city and the Capital of Lithuania, with a population of 555,613 as of 2008. It is the seat of the Vilnius city municipality and of the Vilnius district municipality....
. In 1833, he was approached by the Siberia

Siberia

Siberia , is the name given to the vast region constituting almost all of North Asia and for the most part currently serving as the massive central and eastern portion of the Russian Federation, having served in the same capacity previously for the Soviet Union from its beginning, and the Russian Empire beginning in the 16th century....
n Cossacks who asked him to produce a large cathedral in Omsk

Omsk

Omsk is a types of inhabited localities in Russia in southwest Siberia in Russia, the administrative center of Omsk Oblast. It is the second-largest city in Russia beyond the Urals....
. His last work of importance was the sumptuous decoration of the Winter Palace

Winter Palace

The Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia, was, from 1732 to 1917, the official residence of the Russian Tsars. Situated between the Palace Embankment and the Palace Square, adjacent to the site of Peter I of Russia's original Winter Palace, the present and fourth Winter Palace was built and altered almost continuously between the late...
halls after the disastrous fire of 1837.

Other works

Kotomin House
Kotomin House

Kotomin House is an historical Landmarks of Saint Petersburg building located at Nevsky Prospekt 18 in Saint Petersburg, Russia....

Family

His sons were:

Vladimir Stasov (1824–1906), a Russian critic.
Dmitry Stasov (1828–1918), a notable advocate
Advocate

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who took part in the foundation of the Russian Music Society.

Vasily Stasov

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