Russian Architects

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 143. Chapters: Auguste de Montferrand, Vesnin brothers, List of Russian architects, Vasili Bazhenov, El Lissitzky, Nikolay Lvov, Vincenzo Brenna, Charles Cameron, Konstantin Melnikov, Vladimir Shchuko, Vladimir Shukhov, Nikolai Ladovsky, Ivan Zholtovsky, Fyodor Schechtel, Ivan Fomin, Berthold Lubetkin, Matvey Kazakov, Adam Menelaws, Nikolay Alexandrovich Milyutin, Giacomo Quarenghi, Alexander Pomerantsev, Alexey Dushkin, Alberto Cavos, Roman Klein, Ivan Mashkov, Ilya Golosov, Lev Kekushev, Karp Zolotaryov, Ivan Rerberg, Victor Schröter, Maximilian Messmacher, Andrey Voronikhin, David Grimm, Yevgraph Tyurin, Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, Aleksey Gornostayev, Moisei Ginzburg, Miron Merzhanov, Pyotr Baranovsky, Andreyan Zakharov, Alexander Zelenko, Alexander Kokorinov, Domenico Gilardi, Afanasy Grigoriev, Marian Peretyatkovich, Gavriil Baranovsky, Arkady Mordvinov, Alexey Shchusev, Simon Rastorguev, Ivan Sergeyevich Kuznetsov, Konstantin Thon, Fyodor Lidval, Vladimir Vladimirovich Sherwood, Nikita Lazarev, Alexander Bernardazzi, Andrey Dostoyevsky, Karl Blank, Alexander Kaminsky, Nikolay Lanceray, Illarion Ivanov-Schitz, Vitaly Lagutenko, Ilya Bondarenko, Joseph Bové, Dmitry Shvidkovsky, Carlo Rossi, Nikolay Zherikhov, William Heste, Serge Chermayeff, Vladimir Tatlin, Ivan Starov, Ivan Leonidov, Valery Androsov, Yakov Chernikhov, Noi Trotsky, Francesco Camporesi, Vyacheslav Oltarzhevsky, Dmitry Ukhtomsky, Alexander Brullov, Lev Rudnev, Vasily Stasov, Viktor Hartmann, Ivan Nikolaev, Dmitry Chechulin, Aleksandr Vitberg, Yury Felten, Fyodor Gornostayev, Joseph Sunlight, Savva Chevakinsky, Mikhail Eisenstein, Antonio Rinaldi, Alexander Vesnin, Avraam Melnikov, Georg Johann Mattarnovi, Viktor Aleksandrovic Vesnin, Nikolai Nikitin, Andrei Stackenschneider, Domenico Trezzini, Mikhail Zemtsov, Pavel Suzor, Petrok Maly, Fyodor Kon, Nikolai Kolli, Postnik Yakovlev, Aristotile Fioravanti, Luigi Rusca, Ippolit Monighetti, Ivan Ropet, Andrey Kvasov, Vasili Yermolin, Ivan Fyodorovich Michurin, Pietro Antonio Trezzini, Aloisio the New, Panteleimon Golosov, Brothers Bernardacci, Nicholas Benois, Nikolai Vasilyevich Vasilyev, Mikhail Pavlovich Malakhov, Leon Benois, Aloisio da Milano, Marco Ruffo, Anatoly Polyansky, Lev Khrshchonovich, Vladimir Osipovich Sherwood, Nikolai Markovnikov, Nikolai Chagin, Vasily Kenel, Leonid Aleksandrovic Vesnin, Harald Julius von Bosse, Nodar Kancheli, Sergey Malyutin, Georgy Krutikov, Otto Pius Hippius, Lev Ilyin, Jakob Nikolayevich Popov. Excerpt: The Vesnin brothers: Leonid Vesnin (1880¿1933), Victor Vesnin (1882¿1950) and Alexander Vesnin (1883¿1959) were the leaders of Constructivist architecture, the dominant architectural school of the Soviet Union in the 1920s and early 1930s. Exact estimation of each brother's individual input to their collaborative works remains a matter of dispute and conjecture; nevertheless, historians noted the leading role of Alexander Vesnin in the early constructivist drafts by the Vesnin brothers between 1923 and 1925. Alexander also had the most prominent career outside of architecture, as a stage designer and abstract painter. The brothers¿ earliest collaboration in architecture dates back to 1906; their first tangible building was completed in 1910. Between 1910 and 1916 the Moscow-based family firm designed and built a small number of public and private buildings in Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod, stylistically leaning towards neoclassicism. During the Russian Civ...