Avraam Melnikov
Avraam Melnikov | |
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Авраам Иванович Мельников | |
Born | |
Died | January 1, 1854 | (aged 69)
Education | Member Academy of Arts (1812) Professor by rank (1818) |
Alma mater | Imperial Academy of Arts (1807) |
Known for | Architecture |
Notable work | Potemkin Stairs |
Awards |
Abram or Avraam Melnikov (Авраам Иванович Мельников; 1784—1854) was a Russian Neoclassical architect associated with the late phase of the Empire style. His teachers at the Imperial Academy of Arts included Andreyan Zakharov. He graduated with a gold medal and went to further his studies in Italy. Melnikov became de facto Dean of the Academy in 1831 but was not officially appointed until 1843.[1]
Melnikov collaborated with sculptor Ivan Martos on the pedestals for his statues of Minin and Pozharsky in Red Square and at the top of the Potemkin Stairs in Odessa.[2] Apart from the Imperial School of Jurisprudence and the Old Believer Church of St. Nicholas (later converted into the Arctic and Antarctic Museum), Melnikov's major buildings are in New Russia and the Volga provinces.
The Saviour Cathedral in Rybinsk is based on Melnikov's design that had won the architectural competition for St. Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg. It was also Melnikov who won the competition for the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow. Neither design was approved by Alexander I of Russia.[1] His successor, Nicholas I, also preferred the Russo-Byzantine designs of Konstantin Thon to the supposedly ponderous Late Neoclassical style espoused by Melnikov.
Major buildings[]
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Rybinsk Old Believer Church of St. Nicholas, St. Petersburg Demidov Lyceum, Yaroslavl
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b The Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- ^ The article in the Odessa News Archived August 18, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
External links[]
Media related to Avraam Ivanovich Melnikov at Wikimedia Commons
- Members of the Imperial Academy of Arts
- Professors by rank of the Academy of Arts
- Imperial Academy of Arts alumni
- Awarded with a large gold medal of the Academy of Arts
- 1784 births
- 1854 deaths
- Neoclassical architects
- Russian architects