Alexei Wassiljewitsch Kwassow
Alexei Vasilievich Kwassow ( Russian Алексей Васильевич Квасов ; * the early 1720s; † February 9 . Jul / 20th February 1777 greg. In St. Petersburg ) was a Russian architect and urban planner .
Life
Kwassow, younger brother of the baroque architect Andrei Wassiljewitsch Kwassow , headed the architectural section of the commission for the construction of stone buildings in St. Petersburg and Moscow from 1763 . In 1763, the commission announced a competition to draw up a general city plan. The result was a plan for the redesign of the central palace square in St. Petersburg, which was carried out by Kwassow and approved in 1765. In 1767 the commission commissioned Kwassow to develop a general plan for all settlements on the outskirts of Moscow.
During Catherine II's urban planning reform, Kvassov directed the preparation of the general plans for the Admiralty side of St. Petersburg (1763–1769), for Nizhny Novgorod , Yaroslavl , Kazan (1766), Tver (1767), Astrakhan (1768) and Kharkov (1768) in the sense of classicism . Kwassow's exemplary building projects shaped the development in the Russian provinces during early classicism.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Барышникова (Станюкович-Денисова) Е. Ю .: Алексей Квасов. In: Зодчие Санкт-Петербурга, XVIII век . St. Petersburg 1997, ISBN 5-289-01585-X , p. 609-634 .
- ^ History The Palace (accessed December 5, 2017).
- ^ Albert J. Schmidt: The Architecture and Planning of Classical Moscow: A Cultural History, Volume 181 . American Philosophical Society, 1989, ISBN 0-87169-181-7 , pp. 36 .
- ↑ Article Kwassow Andrei Wassiljewitsch in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian) .
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| SURNAME | Kwassow, Alexei Wassiljewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Квасов, Алексей Васильевич (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian architect and urban planner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1720 |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 20, 1777 |
| Place of death | St. Petersburg |