Fyodor Gordejewitsch Gordejew

Fjodor Gordejewitsch Gordejew ( Russian Фёдор Гордеевич Гордеев ; * 1744 in Tsarskoje Selo ; † 23 January ^July / 4 February  1810 ^greg. In St. Petersburg ) was a Russian sculptor and university professor .

Life

Gordejew, son of a cattle man, studied 1759–1767 at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts with Nicolas-François Gillet . He was then sent to Paris to study Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne and Rome (1767–1772). In 1776 he became a member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, in 1782 professor and in 1802 rector of the academy.

One of Gordeev's early works was the plaster sculpture of Prometheus , which is in Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery , while the later bronze version is in the St. Petersburg Russian Museum . Gordejew created the reliefs for the facades and interiors of the Ostankino Palace (1794–1798) and for the facades of the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg (1804–1807). His marble grave monuments to NM Golitsyn (1780) and Dmitri Mikhailovich Golitsyn (1799) are in the Shchusev Museum of Architecture in Moscow , while the grave monument to Alexander Mikhailovich Golitsyn (1788) is in the Blagoveshchenskaya Church in the Alexander Nevsky Monastery . Under Gordejev's direction, the bronze statues for the water features of the Peterhof Palace were cast and the monuments for Peter I with the equestrian statue of Étienne-Maurice Falconets and for Alexander Wassiljewitsch Suworow with the statue of Mikhail Ivanovich Kozlovsky were erected in St. Petersburg.

Works

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  Prometheus (1769), Russian Museum

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  Tomb of Alexander Mikhailovich Golitsyn (1788), Blagoveshchenskaya Church in the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, St. Petersburg

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  Copy of the Apollo of Belvedere , Apollo Colonnade , Pavlovsk Park

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  Mercury (1783) in front of the Gonsago Gallery, Pavlovsk Park

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  Copy of a daughter of Niobe from the School of Skopas (1786), Pavlovsk Park

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  Copy of a daughter of Niobe from the School of Skopas (1786), Pavlovsk Park

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  Copy of Ilioneus (son of Niobe) from the School of Skopas (1787), Pavlovsk Park

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  Copy of the Florentine Hermes (1795), Pavlovsk Park

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Somow AI : Гордеев (Федор Гордеевич) . In: Brockhaus-Efron . tape IX , 1893, p. 221 ( Федор Гордеевич Гордеев [accessed July 18, 2018]).
2. ↑ Гордеев . In: Little Brockhaus-Efron . tape 1 , no. 2 , 1907 ( Энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона [accessed July 18, 2018]).