Ivan Yegorowitsch Starov

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Ivan Yegorowitsch Starow ( Stepan Schchukin , Russian Museum )

Ivan Jegorowitsch Starov ( Russian Иван Егорович Старов ; born February 12 . Jul / 23. February  1745 greg. In St. Petersburg , † April 5 jul. / 17th April  1808 greg. ) Was a Russian architect of classicism .

Life

Starov, son of a deacon of the Moscow eparchy , was admitted to the gymnasium at Moscow University in 1755 . After only a year he was sent to high school at the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences . In 1758 he became a student at the Academy of Arts with Alexander Kokorinow and Jean-Baptiste Vallin de La Mothe . After graduating with honors, he received a scholarship from the Academy of Arts, so that he continued his education in Paris with Charles de Wailly from 1762–1768 and in Rome .

After returning Starov was with his project for a Szlachta - Cadet Corps in 1769 member of the Academy of Arts. He worked in the academy as an adjunct professor and from 1770 as a professor. In 1771 Starow married Natalja Grigoryevna Demidowa, daughter of the entrepreneur , botanist and patron Grigori Akinfijewitsch Demidow and sister of the wife of the academy director Kokorinow.

1772–1774 Starow was the chief architect of the commission for the construction of stone buildings in St. Petersburg and Moscow . In St. Petersburg he built the Troitski Cathedral (1776–1790) and the Gate Church (1783–1785) in the Alexander Nevsky Monastery , in Sofija near Tsarskoe Selo the Sofija Cathedral together with Charles Cameron , the Church of the Resurrection on the Wolkowo Cemetery (1782–1785), the Tauride Palace (1783–1789) for Prince Potjomkin , the recently burned down Prince Vladimir Cathedral (1783–1789), the Pella Palace on the Neva (1785–1789) for Catherine II and the dachas -Palais in Taizy and Siworizy near St. Petersburg. He built the Nikolskoye-Gagarino mansion ( Rajon Rusa ) near Moscow and the Bogorodizkoye mansion in Bogorodizk (1771–1776). He built a church near Nakhichevan and the Ekaterina Cathedral in Kherson (1786). For Potjomkin he built a palace in Yekaterinoslav (1787–1789) and in Kritschew (1778–1787) as well as in Pokrowskoje ( Demidowski rajon ) a mansion based on the model of Villa Rotonda (1786, demolished in 1923).

In 1778 Starow drafted a general plan for Yaroslavl with radially arranged streets. He also created general plans for Voronezh , Pskov and Yekaterinoslav. In 1790 Starow worked out the general plan for the construction of the city of Nikolayev with straight streets and regular residential areas at the confluence of the Inhul in the southern Bug . In 1794 Starow was appointed adjunct rector of the academy.

Starov was buried in the Lazarus Cemetery at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery in St. Petersburg.

Works

  • Troitsky Cathedral in the Alexander Nevsky Convent, St. Petersburg

  • Sofija Cathedral at Tsarskoye Selo

  • Tauride Palace, St. Petersburg

  • Prince Vladimir Cathedral, St. Petersburg

  • Pella Palace on the Neva (drawn by Giacomo Quarenghi )

  • Nikolskoye-Gagarino mansion

  • Bogoroditskoye mansion

  • Ekaterina Cathedral, Kherson

  • Potyomkin Palace Krichev

  • Potyomkin Manor Pokrovskoye

Web links

Commons : Iwan Yegorowitsch Starow  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Старов (Иван Егорович) . In: Brockhaus-Efron . tape 31 , 1900.
  2. ↑ a b c d Иван Старов. Архитектура - его жизнь (accessed October 23, 2017).
  3. ↑ Виктор Григорьевич Воронов: Иван Старов - главный архитектор эпохи Екатерины Великой . Искусство, St. Petersburg 2008, ISBN 5-210-01511-4 .
personal data
SURNAME Starow, Ivan Egorovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Старов, Иван Егорович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian architect of classicism
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1745
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1808
Place of death St. Petersburg