Alexander Ivanovich Resanov

Alexander Ivanovich Resanov ( PF Borel , 1883)

Alexander Ivanovich Resanov ( Russian Александр Иванович Резанов ; born August 10 ^{. Jul} / 22. August 1817 ^greg. In St. Petersburg , † November 18 ^jul. / Thirtieth November 1887 ^greg. ) Was a Russian architect and university lecturer .

Life

Resanow lost his father at an early age, who was an auditor and titular councilor (9th class ). At the age of 10 he came to the Imperial Academy of the Arts (IACh) in Konstantin Andrejewitsch Thon's class in the architecture department. In 1830, 1831 and 1837 he received a silver medal for his achievements. In 1839 he completed his studies as an artist of architecture XIV class. For his final project at a theater school, he received the great gold medal and a study abroad scholarship .

1834-1837 Resanow planned the conversion of the Catholic St. Casimir Church in Vilnius to a Russian Orthodox cathedral , which was opened in 1840. From 1838 Resanow worked for Thon as a draftsman in the drawing room commission for the construction of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow . 1840-1842 he was Thons assistant in the construction of the Great Kremlin Palace and the Maly Theater in Moscow. Under the direction of Thons he participated in the creation of the 1840 Atlas of normal buildings in the country.

In 1842 Resanov traveled to Italy with his study abroad scholarship to study ancient monuments. Together with Nikolai Leontjewitsch Benois and Alexander Krakau , he restored the Orvieto Cathedral . The publication of his description of the restoration made him known throughout Europe . After his return in 1846, the IACh appointed him academic for architecture in 1848. He became a senior architect in the Department of Imperial Property of the Ministry of the Imperial Court and remained so until his death.

From 1854 Resanow taught drawing and architecture at the Surveying School in St. Petersburg and from 1857 at the IACh. Resanow was the main architect of the court management and became court architect in 1864. In 1865 he was appointed professor . In 1871 he became Rector for Architecture at the IACh. In 1872 he became vice principal architect and in 1881 principal architect of Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Savior. He was one of the founders of the Imperial St. Petersburg Society of Architects, its chairman 1870-1887 and finally its honorary member. In 1876 he became a Corresponding Honorary Member of the Royal Institute of British Architects .

In the 1870s, Resanow Kosma Terentjewitsch Soldatjonkows Dokuchajew -Stadthof in Moscow's Mjasnitskaya Ulitsa, where Soldatjonkow had housed his large collection of paintings and his library . The courtyard was rebuilt after the fire in Moscow (1812) 1819-1821 according to the project by Afanassi Grigorjewitsch Grigorjew and Joseph Bové and has now been modernized by expanding the wings, building a vestibule in the main house and the portico with Ionic columns.

Resanov was buried in the Smolensk Cemetery in St. Petersburg.

Honors

Alexander Nevsky Order
Imperial-Royal Order of the White Eagle
Order of St. Vladimir III. Class, II class
Russian Order of Saint Anne II class, 1st class
Order of Saint Stanislaus, Class II, Class I

Works

Trinity Cathedral of the Serafimo Diwejewski Monastery in Diwejewo (1848–1875)
Cathedral of the Assumption of the Mother of God , Vilna (1865–1868 together with Nikolai Michailowitsch Tschagin )
Grand Prince - Vladimir Alexandrowitsch Palace, Dworzowaja Naberezhnaya 26, St. Petersburg (1867–1872, assistant to Ieronim Sevastjanowitsch Kitner )
Villa KS Popow, Smolenski Bulwar 26/9, Moscow (1877, executed by SW Dmitriyev)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Зодчие Москвы времени эклектики, модерна и неоклассицизма (1830-е – 1917 годы): илл. биогр. словарь . КРАБиК, Moscow 1998, ISBN 5-900395-17-0 , p. 206-208 .
↑ ^a ^b А. Гинзбург, Б. Кириков: Архитекторы-строители Санкт-Петербурга середины XIX– начала XX века. Справочник . Пилигрим, St. Petersburg 1996, ISBN 5-900989-01-1 , p. 260-261 .
↑ А. И. Резанов (некролог) . In: Всемирная иллюстрация . tape 38 , no. 985 , 1887, pp. 4446 ( nlr.ru [accessed November 20, 2018]).
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Прогулки по Петербургу: Резанов Александр Иванович (accessed November 20, 2018).
↑ ^a ^b ^c Справочник Научных Обществ России: РЕЗАНОВ Александр Иванович (accessed November 20, 2018).
↑ А. И. Резанов, ректор архитектуры императорской академии художеств, и строитель храма ХриктаМ Спасве .еля спасве . In: Всемирная иллюстрация . tape 29 , no. 750 , 1883, pp. 418-419 ( nlr.ru [accessed November 20, 2018]).
↑ Резанов, Александр Иванович . In: Петербургский некрополь. Т. 3 . Типография М. М. Стасюлевича, St. Petersburg 1912, p. 558 ( nlr.ru [accessed November 20, 2018]).

personal data
SURNAME	Resanov, Alexander Ivanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Резанов, Александр Иванович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	August 22, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH	St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH	November 30, 1887
Place of death	St. Petersburg

[sodsch1-1] Зодчие Москвы времени эклектики, модерна и неоклассицизма (1830-е – 1917 годы): илл. биогр. словарь . КРАБиК, Moscow 1998, ISBN 5-900395-17-0 , p. 206-208 .

[arch2-2] А. Гинзбург, Б. Кириков: Архитекторы-строители Санкт-Петербурга середины XIX– начала XX века. Справочник . Пилигрим, St. Petersburg 1996, ISBN 5-900989-01-1 , p. 260-261 .

[3] А. И. Резанов (некролог) . In: Всемирная иллюстрация . tape 38 , no. 985 , 1887, pp. 4446 ( nlr.ru [accessed November 20, 2018]).

[pro-4] Прогулки по Петербургу: Резанов Александр Иванович (accessed November 20, 2018).

[spra-5] Справочник Научных Обществ России: РЕЗАНОВ Александр Иванович (accessed November 20, 2018).

[6] А. И. Резанов, ректор архитектуры императорской академии художеств, и строитель храма ХриктаМ Спасве .еля спасве . In: Всемирная иллюстрация . tape 29 , no. 750 , 1883, pp. 418-419 ( nlr.ru [accessed November 20, 2018]).

[7] Резанов, Александр Иванович . In: Петербургский некрополь. Т. 3 . Типография М. М. Стасюлевича, St. Petersburg 1912, p. 558 ( nlr.ru [accessed November 20, 2018]).