Mikhail Ivanovich Choglokov

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Mikhail Ivanovich Tschoglokow ( Russian Михаил Иванович Чоглоков ; * around 1650, † around 1710) was a Russian builder , architect and painter of the Baroque .

Life

Choglokow learned from the icon painter Ivan Artemyevich Besmin , one of the masters of the armory of the Moscow Kremlin .

Tschoglokow was in close contact with Christof Konrad involved in the construction of the arsenal of the Moscow Kremlin .

By order of Peter I planned and built Tchoglokov 1692-1695 in Moscow as a guard and observation tower at Sretenka Gate the Sukharev Tower in honor of the commander of the monitored there Strelets regiments Lavrenty Sukharev, the 1689 Peter I on the run from his half-sister Sofia Alexeyevna in the Trinity Monastery of Sergiev Posad had protected. The renovation in 1698–1701 gave the tower its final shape with a high clock tower in the middle. In 1699 Jacob Daniel Bruce set up the mathematics and nautical school there, and an astronomical observatory was built on the upper floor , so that the tower served as an astronomical tower . The Moscow office of the Admiralty was also housed there. In 1934 the tower was demolished as part of the modernization of Moscow.

1703-1711 Choglokow built for AF Kurbatow, Djak the armory of the Moscow Kremlin and head of the construction of the arsenal of the Moscow Kremlin, the 1656-1657 built Awerki-Kirillov Palace.

Tschoglokow was also active as a painter. He designed regimental flags, created frescoes in tsarist rooms and gave Peter I drawing lessons . He portrayed Ivan V and Natalia Kirillovna Naryshkina .

Works

  • Arsenal of the Moscow Kremlin

  • Sukharev Tower, Moscow (1927)

  • Awerki Kirillov Palace, Moscow

  • Ivan V ( Russian Museum )

  • Natalja Kirillowna Naryshkina (after 1676)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ История русской архитектуры . Гос. изд-во лит-ры по строительству и архитектуре, 1951.
  2. ↑ Arsenal (accessed December 1, 2017).
  3. ^ Louis Réau : L'art russe des origines à Pierre le Grand . Editeur Henri Laurens, Paris 1920, p. 317 .
  4. ↑ Петр I. Время и окружение . Palace Editions, St. Petersburg 2015, p. 58-59 .
personal data
SURNAME Tschoglokow, Mikhail Ivanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Чоглоков, Михаил Иванович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian builder, architect and Baroque painter
DATE OF BIRTH around 1650
DATE OF DEATH around 1710