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hidden Monuments of history and culture | Grimm German Davidovich hidden Gogen von A.I. (1856-1914), architect. | |
GOGEN Alexander Ivanovich von (1856-1914, Petrograd), architect, member of the Academy of Architcture (1895). He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts (1883). Among his early works, there are mansions of N.K ... | | GOGEN Alexander Ivanovich von (1856-1914, Petrograd), architect, member of the Academy of Architcture (1895). He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts (1883). Among his early works, there are mansions of N.K. Vadbolskaya (10 Ninth Line of Vasilievsky Island, 1886-88), of F.G. Kozlyaninova (currently 12 Pisareva Street, 1891-92), of K.A. Vargunin (52 Furshtatskaya Street, 1896-99) typical for classical Eclecticism and marked by the use of plastics and asymmetric composition. The mansion of A.I. Chernov (currently 72 Oktyabrskaya Embankment, 1889-93) characterized by picturesque silhouette and dynamic asymmetry of shapes, the house of I.A. Zheverzheev (18/5 currently Rubinsteina Street, 1899), the Memorial Museum of A.V. Suvorov ( 43 Kirochnaya Street, 1901-04, with participation of the architect G.D. Grimm) are designed in the Neo-Russian style. Rational methods combined with classical order shapes are peculiar to the buildings of the Grant cash desk and the Savings-Bank (74 and 78 Fontanka River Embankment, 1898-1900, in collaboration with the architect A.A. Bertels and R.P. Golenishchev) and of Nikolaevskaya Academy of the General Staff (32 Suvorovsky Avenue, 1900-01). Conversion to the Art Nouveau is apparent in the houses of D.I. Mendeleev (26 Bolshaya Pushkarskaya Street, 1900-01) and of the Kozlyaninovs (10 Pisareva Street, 1908). The climax of creative work by Gogen is the Kschessinska Mansion, a prime example of St. Petersburg Art Nouveau. Gogen participated in the creation of the Monument Stereguschemu and Cathedral Mosque. He is an author of a number of buildings in the Tsarskoe Selo, Pavlovsk and other cities. He taught at the Central school of Technical Drawing (1892-97), at Nikolaevskaya Engineering Academy (1893-1908), at the College of Civil Engineers (1898-1914). He was the architect of the imperial court (as of 1903). He established the Society of Architectural Artists. He lived at 27 Furshtatskaya Street, 18/5 Troitskaya (currently, Rubinsteina) Street, at 136 Nevsky Prospect. He is buried at Smolensky Orthodox Cemetery (tombstone has not survive). References: Кириков Б. М. Александр фон Гоген // Зодчие Санкт-Петербурга, ХIХ - начало ХХ века. СПб., 1998. С. 562-577; Кириков Б. М., Штиглиц М. С. Петербург немецких архитекторов: От барокко до авангарда. СПб., 2002. С. 282-290. Б. М. Кириков.
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GRIMMS, a dynasty of architects, theorists, art historians and teachers. David Ivanovich Grimm (1823, St. Petersburg - 1898), architect, representative of Eclecticism, master of the Russo-Byzantine style, historian of Caucasian Architecture ... | | GRIMMS, a dynasty of architects, theorists, art historians and teachers. David Ivanovich Grimm (1823, St. Petersburg - 1898), architect, representative of Eclecticism, master of the Russo-Byzantine style, historian of Caucasian Architecture. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts (1848), from 1855 he was a Member of the Academy. In 1852-1855, he was sent abroad to study as a retained student. In 1857-1863, he taught at the Construction School, and from 1859, at the Academy of Fine Arts (professor from 1860; Rector of Architecture in 1887-1892; Honourable Member from 1892). In 1865-1871, he was an architect with the Department of Water Lines; from 1867, he was a member of the Technical Architectural Committee. He was a member of the editorial board of the journal Zodchy (1870-s); he also helped found the Petersburg Architects Society, of which he became a Senior Member (from 1870), and then the Head (1888-1890), later to be given the status of Honoured Member. From 1892, he was an architect for the Highest Royal Court. He designed and built an apartment house at 42 Moika River Embankment (1867-1870); the St. Olga Church at Mikhailovka (1861-1863); and Holy Virgin Intercession Church at the Egerskaya settlement in Gatchina (1883). In 1862-1863, he built the Reformed Church following a project by architect G.A. Bosse on Bolshaya Morskaya Street. His design for the Grand Princes' Burial Vault (1885-1887) was constructed from 1896-1908. Both the Golden Sitting Room at the Winter Palace and the Academy of Fine Arts Library were constructed and decorated according to sketches by Grimm. He designed the architectural part of the monument to Empress Catherine II and was responsible for its installation (1862-1873); he created the Monument to Glory, in memory of Russia's victory in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878, constructed out of wooden frames from trophy guns seized from the Turks (not preserved). He is buried at the Smolenskoe Lutheran Cemetery. His son, German Davidovich Grimm (1865, St. Petersburg - 1942, Leningrad), was an architect, a representative of the Art Nouveau, Neoclassicism and Neo-Russian styles. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts (1890), was an Academic of Architecture (1895), and a Member of the Academy of Architecture of the USSR (1939). In 1889, upon graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts, he was sent abroad as a scholar. From 1900, he taught at the Civil Engineering Institute (professor from 1901). From 1907, he was an architect, and an inspector with the Building Board of the Department of Institutions of Empress Maria. In the 1900s, he was a senior member of the board, headed the museum, and was a member of the Petersburg Society of Architects Council. His most important buildings from the 1890s - beginning of 1900s include the Society for Religious-Moral Education House (20 Stremyannaya Street), an apartment house at 26 Third Line of Vasilievsky Island, and the St. John the Baptist Church (16 Lesnoy Avenue, together with G.G. Goli). Grimm's main work is the Suvorov Memorial Museum building (1901-1904, in co-operation with A.I. Gogen). In 1903-1905, he built apartment houses at 37 Eighth Line of Vasilievsky Island and at 4 Syezzhinskaya Street; in 1904-1908, the Holy Resurrection Church on Obvodny Canal Embankment (in co-operation with Goli and A.L. Gun); and in 1909, buildings for the gymnasium and of the Actual May School (Fourteenth Line of Vasilievsky Island). Outstanding buildings from the period of 1913-1915 include the A.F. Devrien Publishing House (14 Fourth Line of Vasilievsky Island) and the buildings of a school and orphanage (55 Bolshoy Avenue of Vasilievsky Island). In the 1920s-30s, he worked as an architect for the People's Commissariat for Communication Routes. He died during the Siege. His son, German Germanovich Grimm (1904, St. Petersburg - 1959, Leningrad), was an engineer-builder, historian of architecture, museum specialist, and Doctor of Architecture (1946). Graduating from Leningrad Engineering Building Institute in 1930, from 1936, he worked at the Academy of Fine Arts. He is the author of a number of works in the style of Russian Classicism. He lived at 5 Barmaleeva Street. He is buried at the Serafimovskoe Cemetery. References: Леонтьева С. Ф. Хранитель памяти: Страницы творч. биогр. Г. Г. Гримма // ЛП. 1983. № 6. С. 29-31; Архитекторы-строители Санкт-Петербурга середины XIX - начала XX века: Справ. СПб., 1996; Иванова Е. Б. Давид Гримм // Зодчие Санкт-Петербурга, XIX - начало XX века. СПб., 1998. С. 433-336. V. G. Isachenko.
| | | | hidden The Mariinsky Woman Gymnasium. | |
The building was built in 1845-1846 to the design of D.E. Yefimov for placing the office of the Governor of the Palace Board and Tsarskoye Selo Town headed by Ya.V. Zakharzhevsky ... | | The building was built in 1845-1846 to the design of D.E. Yefimov for placing the office of the Governor of the Palace Board and Tsarskoye Selo Town headed by Ya.V. Zakharzhevsky. Constructing works were made under the direction of the architect N.S. Nikitin. The office rooms and Ya.V. Zakharzhevsky’s flat were placed here. In 1865-1866 A.F. Vidov adapted for a gymnasium of the Mariinsky department. He retained the main staircase and central main hall as well as the flat of the Governor that was put to a chief master of the gymnasium. The opening of the gymnasium took place in this building on 7 February 1865. The first principle was the famous teacher N.A. Vyshnegradsky. Y.V. Zakharzhevsky was one of founders and the first trustee. In connection with rising the number of pupils the building was rebuilt and enlarged in 1874-1875 on A.F. Vidov’s project. In 1906-1907 the building was rebuilt again, it was overbuilt one more floor according to the project of the architect G.D. Grim and under the direction of the civil engineer V.A. Lipavsky. The decorating facades with rustics and window’s wedge key stones placed in fanlike way and superimposing each other date from the original architectural decoration of the building. The decoration of arch windows and attic completion was used by G.D. Grim in overbuilt third floor. A.A. Gorenko the future poetess A.A. Akhmatova , was learning in the Mariinsky Gymnasium during 1900-1905.
Persons Akhmatova Anna Andreevna Efimov Dmitry Egorovich Grimm German Davidovich Lipavsky, V.A. Nikitin, N.S. Vidov Alexander Fomich Zakharzhevsky, Ya.V.
Addresses Leontievskaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 17
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Architect N.S. Nikitin constructed the office building of the Chief Manager of the Palace Board, according to the design by D.E. Efimov. During 1865-1866 architect A.F. Vidov accomodated this building for the gymnasium ... | | | | | | | | |
