Mikhail Ivanovich Machayev

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The newly built Saint Petersburg and the Neva , engraving by Joseph Valeriani and Mikhail Ivanovich Machajew, 1753
City map St. Petersburg, 1753, Machayev
View of Nevsky Prospect towards the Admiralty. Stab of yes. Vasilyev after a drawing by M. Machajew (1753)

Mikhail Ivanovich Machajew ( Russian Михаил Иванович Махаев , scientific transliteration Michail Ivanovič Machaev ; born 1716, 1717 or 1718 in Smolenskoje, Saint Petersburg ; died 1770 in Saint Petersburg) was a Russian draftsman, graphic artist and cartographer and who was a master of drawing of engraving, especially of architectural landscapes.

life and work

Mikhail Ivanovich Machajew was born in Smolenskoje near Moscow in 1718 to a priestly family. He entered the St. Petersburg Academic School in 1729, and learned navigation, later drawing and the principles of perspective. He made his master at the Russian engravers Iwan Sokolow (1717–1757) and Grigori Katschalow (1711–1759) for whom he engraved maps and landscape views. He is especially remembered for the "Plan of the Capital St. Petersburg" (published 1753 and later, according to Giuseppe Valeriani at Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk: "Plan stolichnago goroda Sanktpetersburga. Plasn de la Ville de St. Petersburg avec ses principales Vües") , Petersburg), also his details on the estate of Count Sheremetyev (1713–1788) in Kuskovo (1779), as well as other views of Saint Petersburg and Moscow , also of other Russian cities and of Siberian cities (see also the illustrations for the Great Nordic Expedition , 1733-1743). For the Kratkaya Rossiyskoy imperii geografiya [Brief Geography of the Russian Empire] (St. Petersburg, 1773, 2nd A.) by Bacmeister (1730–1806) he steered the engravings of the “General map of the Russian Empire and Maps of Provinces engraved “At.

In his illustrations, he proceeded in such a way that the views were projected with the camera obscura , with the lens and mirror projecting relevant images onto the paper. The camera was on a tripod, enclosed in a movable box.

He gained the fame of a master of landscape architecture through a series of 12 engraved vedutas , which were collected in an album (1753). He also made drawings with views of the tsarist residences in Tsarskoye Selo (now Pushkin ), Peterhof (now Petrodvorets ) and Oranienbaum (now Lomonossow ).

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ МАХА́ЕВ Михаил (Михайло) Иванович - bigenc.ru (accessed on September 5, 2018)
  2. ↑ Machajew Michaił I. - encyklopedia.pwn.pl (accessed on September 5, 2018)
  3. ↑ Ivan Alexejewitsch Sokolow / Соколов, Иван Алексеевич
  4. ↑ Grigori Anikeevich Katschalow / Качалов, Григорий Аникеевич
  5. ↑ МАХА́ЕВ Михаил (Михайло) Иванович (accessed September 5, 2018)
  6. ↑ cf. Machajew Michaił I. - encyklopedia.pwn.pl (accessed September 5, 2018)

literature

  • Machaev, Michail I .: Saint Petersburg and the surrounding area in Russian vedute 1753–1761. Two sets of copper engravings after Michail Ivanovič Machaev. Edited by the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg. Exhibition in the Neue Pinakothek , July 19 to September 27, 1992. State Graphic Collection, Munich. Catalog editing: Richard Harprath. Munich: State Collection of Graphics, 1992, ISBN 3-927803-08-1 ( ZVAB )

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personal data
SURNAME Machayev, Mikhail Ivanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Михаил Иванович Махаев (Russian); Mikhail Ivanovič Machaev; Mikhail Ivanovich Makhaev
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian draftsman, graphic artist and cartographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1716 or 1717 or 1718
PLACE OF BIRTH Smolenskoye, Saint Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH 1770
Place of death St. Petersburg