Vasily Stasov
Stasov (Russian: Васи́лий Петро́вич Ста́сов; 4 August 1769 – 5 September 1848) was a famous Russian architect, born into a wealthy noble family: his father, Pyotr Fyodorovich Stasov, came from one of the oldest aristocratic families founded in 1387 by the 1st Duke Stasov Dmitri Vasilevich and his mother, Anna Antipyevna, came from the prominent Priklonsky family [1]
Biography
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He extensively travelled in
Alexey Arakcheyev in the 1810s and was completely destroyed during World War II
.
While developing guidelines for other architects, Stasov advocated making even the most trivial of buildings—barracks, storehouses, stables—look imposing and monumental. He worked much to embellish
Pushkin Lyceum, the fanciful Chinese Village and also the Office of the Police Chief, which is an adaption of the project developed by the architect V. I. Geste. After the great fire of 1820, he was entrusted to remodel in the Neoclassical style some premises of the baroque Catherine Palace
.
Stasov's first important commissions in the
Smolny Cathedral
also belongs to him.
Stasov was the forerunner of the
Saint Vladimir until its destruction by Bolsheviks
in the 1930s.
During the reign of
Narva Triumphal Gates in St Petersburg and the present-day Presidential Palace in Vilnius. In 1833, he was approached by the Siberian Cossacks who asked him to produce a large cathedral in Omsk. His last work of importance was the decoration of the Winter Palace
halls after the disastrous fire of 1837.
He died in Saint Petersburg.
Other works
Family
Stasov was married to Mariia Abramovna Suchkova, who was from a military family, until her death in 1831.[2][3] Among his children were:
- Vladimir Stasov (1824–1906), a prominent Russian critic
- Dmitry Stasov (1828–1918), an advocate who took part in the foundation of the Russian Music Society
- Nadezhda Stasova (1822–1895), a notable activist, educator, and feminist
His granddaughter was Elena Stasova (1873-1966), a prominent Russian-Soviet communist revolutionary, working alongside Vladimir Lenin.[4]
References
- ^ a b "House of Stasov".
- ISBN 978-615-5053-72-6.
- ISBN 978-0-7425-3737-8.
- ISBN 978-0-230-50577-3.
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