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hidden Monuments of history and culture | Demut-Malinovsky Vasily Ivanovich hidden Menelas A.A. (1753-1834), architect | |
MENELAS Adam Adamovich (1753-1831, Tsarskoe Selo), architect, landscape designer, representative of the late Neoclassicism. Native of Scotland. From 1785, resided in Russia, worked as a mason in the workshop of N.A. Lvov in Torzhok and Mogilev ... | | MENELAS Adam Adamovich (1753-1831, Tsarskoe Selo), architect, landscape designer, representative of the late Neoclassicism. Native of Scotland. From 1785, resided in Russia, worked as a mason in the workshop of N.A. Lvov in Torzhok and Mogilev. From 1800, was employed as an architect by the Counts Razumovsky, from 1813, Counts Stroganov. In 1813-31, was a member of the Building Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. From the early 1810s, Menelas worked in Tsarskoe Selo, where he laid out Alexandrovsky park and erected the pavilions there: the Arsenal (1819-34), the Chapel (1825-28) and the White Tower (1821-27), whose outlook is marked by the English Neo-Gothic architecture influence. In Peterhof, Menelas created the landscape park Alexandria, with a small Palace Cottage in the centre (1826-29), also representative of the English style (its decoration was completed by prominent masters). He erected the Farm Palace on the park premises (1828-30; later re-built). The cast iron gates of Ekaterininsky and Alexandrovsky parks in Tsarskoe Selo are done in the Empire style. The massive Kusminsky (Egyptian) Gates (1829-32) at the gateway of St. Petersburg, adorned with reliefs by V.I. Demut-Malinovsky are especially expressive. Menelas' last work is the Church of St. Alexander Nevsky in Alexandria, in Neo-Gothic style (1831-34; project of the German architect K. Schinkel, with a contribution of I.I. Charlemagne, sculptor Demut-Malinovsky). Reference: Кузнецов С. О. Адам Менелас // Зодчие Санкт-Петербурга, ХIХ - начало ХХ века. СПб., 1998. С. 80-89. V. V. Antonov.
| | | | hidden Sukhanov S.X., (1769-1840s), stonecutter, sculptor | |
SUKHANOV Samson Xenofontovich (1769-1840s, St. Petersburg), stonecutter, sculptor. Moved to St. Petersburg around 1800. Many orders for building were fulfilled by him or under his supervision. His most important works in stone in St ... | | SUKHANOV Samson Xenofontovich (1769-1840s, St. Petersburg), stonecutter, sculptor. Moved to St. Petersburg around 1800. Many orders for building were fulfilled by him or under his supervision. His most important works in stone in St. Petersburg are several sculpture-groups on the attic of the Bourse building (Neptune with Two Rivers and Navigation, the 1810-20s), rostral columns with four symbolic figures of four Russian rivers (the 1810-20s), the Vasilievsky Island Strelka Embankment, a sculpture composition of the Mining Institute porch (according to the models of sculptor V.I. Demut-Malinovsky and S.S. Pimenov), images of Attic warriors on tower of the Main Admiralty (by models of F.F. Shchedrin), a number of columns for Kazan Cathedral and St. Isaac's Cathedral, and plinths for monuments to M.I. Kutuzov and M.B. Barclay de Tolly (1832-36). He lived in his own house at 50 Pryazhka Embankment. O. A. Chekanova.
| | | | hidden The Chapelle Pavilion (an ensemble of the Alexander Park) | |
The Chapelle pavilion was located near the Upper Hothouses along the Menagerie line. Two Chapelle’s towers, connected with the arch, were built during 1825-1828 on the place of the dismantled southern bastion of the Menagerie ... | | The Chapelle pavilion was located near the Upper Hothouses along the Menagerie line. Two Chapelle’s towers, connected with the arch, were built during 1825-1828 on the place of the dismantled southern bastion of the Menagerie. Constructing was started at the time of Alexander I rule. Menelaws used a part of walls of the Elizabethian lusthaus for constructing the new building. The appearance of the mystery – pavilion, as it was conceived by its creators, has reflected mystical spirits and legends of the Alexander epoch. The pavilion was crowned with a wind gauge in the form of a rooster and reproduced ruins a Gothic chapel, that was a well-known touch of gardening and park architecture. Inside room was lighted with stained-glass window with pictures of biblical scenes, the vault was painted by the artist V.Dadonov and sculptures of angels were made by V.I. Demut-Malinovsky. Inside the Chapelle there was a statue of the Saviour made in Stuttgart in 1820-1824 by the sculpture J.H. von Dannecker on the order of dowager Empress Maria Fiodorovna. It was supposed to place the statue in a Moscow church, but it was not done and the Empress presented the statue to her son – Emperor. A variant of the sculpture, made by the author, was placed in Regensburg. The Chapelle building was partly destroyed during WWII; a chiming clock, wind gauge, stained-glasses were lost. The restored works have to start in the pavilion at the nearest time.
Persons Alexander I, Emperor Dadonov, V. Danneker, I.G. Demut-Malinovsky Vasily Ivanovich Maria Fedorovna, Empress Menelas Adam Adamovich
| | | | hidden The Kuzminsky (Egyptian) Gate. | |
The Kuzminsky Gate (it is the historical name) is the bright incarnation of the Egyptian theme. It has caused the rename of the Kuzminsky Gate in the second half of the 20th century ... | | The Kuzminsky Gate (it is the historical name) is the bright incarnation of the Egyptian theme. It has caused the rename of the Kuzminsky Gate in the second half of the 20th century. The Ancient Egyptian plots sculpture decorations of the cast iron coating of facades are harmonized with the pyramidal form of the three-storied stone pylons – guardhouses. In the facades ornamental design there are Egyptian hieroglyphs, genre scenes of the Ancient Egyptian life, motifs of a lotus flower and stalk, snake, scarabs, sphinxes, herms that are typical to the Egyptian art. According to the design of A.A. Menelaws of 1826 the gate was supposed to install in the Alexander Park at the gateway to Tsarskoye Selo Boulevard. On Nicholas I’s order “out of respect for Kuzminsky Road is a great way” in 1827 the gate was begun to build at the entry into the town. The artist Vasily Dodonov drew hieroglyphs, their plaster models were made by the sculptor V.I. Demut-Malinovsky. The coating was produced at the Saint Petersburg Alexander Iron Foundry. In the 1830s the Kuzminsky Gate became the zero reference point of versts ( 1 verst = 3500 ft. ) on the way from Tsarskoye Selo to Saint Petersburg.
Persons Dadonov, Vasily Demut-Malinovsky Vasily Ivanovich Menelas Adam Adamovich Nicholas I, Emperor
Addresses Oktyabrsky Boulevard/Pushkin, town Pushkin, town
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