Ivan Starov Biography

The future founder of Russian classicism received primary education at a school for children of the clergy, and then, in the year, he was sent to a gymnasium at Moscow University.

However, after 2 years, in the year, who showed remarkable abilities for Ivan’s visual arts, they are sent to study in St. Petersburg, to the newly educated Academy of Arts, where he comprehends the basics of architecture under the leadership of A. Kokorinov and Zh., among the first graduates and gold medalists, leaves the walls of Alma Mater, then lives in Paris, where he works in the workshop of the famous in Europe architect and author of the outstanding buildings of Charles de Wei.

After the artist studies Italian architecture, especially he is interested in the monuments of the Renaissance and Antiquity. In the year, Ivan Egorovich fulfills his first private order-he was entrusted with the construction of a summer residence for the Prosecutor General Prince Dolgoruky. The next year, the architect is engaged in Demidov’s dacha on the Peterhof road, and then by order of Empress Catherine the Second, he projects palaces for estates in beavers and Bogoroditsk, which, unfortunately, suffered a sad fate: the Bogoroditsky palace was burned in the year, and Bobrinsky turned out to be a very strange venture - he was almost constantly empty, and demanded significant capitalization, and he demanded significant capitalization, but Then he was completely disassembled into a brick by Count of Bobrinsky, side by the Empress Alexei.

From the middle of the X, the architect systematically fulfills the construction orders of Grigory Potemkin, works on the reconstruction of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra, takes part in the construction of the Trinity Cathedral, rebuilds the Anichkov Palace and builds park buildings in it. However, the most famous building of Starov in St. Petersburg is the Tauride Palace - the architect not only designed it, but also led the course of work on its construction and decoration of interior decoration.

In the year, Ivan Egorovich is appointed chief architect of the Office of the Building of Her Imperial Majesty houses and gardens. In this post, the artist works in marble, winter, Chesmensky and Anchki palaces. The last major work of Starov was the design of a large cathedral for the Kazan Convent. In the year, after the death of Catherine the Great, Pavel the First enters the throne, who, by his decree, dismisses Starov from his position.

So, Ivan Egorovich remains out of work. The founder of Russian classicism died on April 5 after a severe long illness.