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| stasov, vasily petrovich | |
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| 1848 deaths | |
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Vasily Petrovich Stasov (Russian: Василий Петрович Стасов) ( in the 1810s and completely destroyed during the WWII fighting. While developing guidelines for other architects, Stasov advocated making even the most trivial of buildings—barracks, storehouses, stables—look imposing and monumental. He worked much to embellish Tsarskoe Selo , where he designed the famous Pushkin Lyceum and the fanciful Chinese Village . After the great fire of 1820, he was entrusted to remodel in the Neoclassical style some premises of the Baroque Catherine Palace . Stasov's first important commissions in the Capital were the Saviour and the Trinity Cathedral s for the regiments of the Russian Imperial Guard . The interior decoration of the Smolny Cathedral also belongs to him. In 1828 , he won a commission to rebuild the Church Of The Tithes in Kiev . This ponderous Empire-style edifice, erected on the spot of the first church of Kievan Rus' and containing the relics of Saint Vladimir , was destroyed by the Bolsheviks in the 1930s . During the reign of Nicholas I , Stasov designed Moscow and Narva Triumphal Gates in St Petersburg. In 1833, he was approached by the Siberia n Cossacks who asked him to produce a large cathedral in Omsk . His last work of importance was the sumptuous decoration of the Winter Palace halls after the disastrous fire of 1837 . His sons:
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