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The subject index
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Building Office
Building Office
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Architecture/Urban Planning/Architectural-planning Organizations and Institutions
BUILDING OFFICE was a state institution, directing the development of St. Petersburg. In was founded in 1706, and until 1723 it was called Municipal Affairs Office, it exercised control of the city construction and urban planning, and educated the contractor's business specialists. The chief-commissar or director of construction was in charge of the office (the first one to occupy the post was U.A. Senyavin; the Office was situated at his house on Gorodskoy Island near Troitskaya Square). In 1765, the construction of "Imperial houses" (as of 1769, it was called the Bureau of His Imperial Highness’ Houses and Gardens Construction) went under the supervision of the Office; in 1797, it was merged with Gofintendantskaya bureau. All the decisions of the Office were recorded in its conferences protocols, and contractors were obliged to follow them rigorously. Also called painters teams, workshops for preparation of specialists in gilding, stucco, and carpentry works were under the Office supervision. At different times, the Office was headed by D. Trezzini, A.V. Kvasov, I.E. Stasov, Y.M. Felten, etc. Artists L.Karavakk, A.M. Matveev, I.Y. Vishnyakov, etc. Reference: Малиновский К. В. Канцелярия от строений // ЛП. 1985. № 8. С. 34-36. A. A. Alexeev.
Persons
Caravaque Louis
Felten Yury (Georg Friedrich) Matveevich
Kvasov Alexey Vasilievich
Matveev Andrey Matveevich
Senyavin Ulyan Akimovich
Starov Ivan Egorovich
Trezzini Domenico
Vishnyakov Ivan Yakovlevich
Addresses
Troitskaya Square/Saint Petersburg, city
Bibliographies
Малиновский К. В. Канцелярия от строений // Ленингр. панорама, 1985
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Anna Ioanovna, Empress (1693-1740)
ANNA IOANNOVNA (1693-1740, St. Petersburg), Empress (from 1730). The daughter of Tsar Ivan V, niece of Tsar Peter the Great. In 1710, she married Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Courland, and within two months she was widowed
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Betskoy I.I. (1704-1795), statesman and teacher
BETSKOY (Betsky) Ivan Ivanovich (1703 or 1704-1795, St. Petersburg), statesman and public figure, actual privy counsellor (1766). He was the illegitimate son of General Field Marshal Prince I.Y. Trubetskoy
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Felten Y. M. (1730-1801), architect
FELTEN Yury Matveevich (Georg Friedrich) (1730 -1801, St. Petersburg), architect, professor of the Academy of Fine Arts (from 1775; from 1785 a Council member, in 1789-94 director), State Counsellor (1784)
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Kvasov A.V., architect
KVASOV Andrey Vasilyevich (circa 1718, St. Petersburg - after 1777), architect, master of Baroque. Brother of Alexey V. Kvasov. He studied at the Construction Office under the guidance of architect M.G. Zemtsov
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Matveev A.M., (between 1701 and 1704-1739), Artist
MATVEEV Andrey Matveevich (between 1701 and 1704-1739, St. Petersburg) artist. He was the first Russian artist to ever receive a western European art education
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Nativity of Our Lord Church
NATIVITY OF OUR LORD CHURCH, located at Sixth Sovetskaya Street, at the corner of Krasnoborsky Lane, constructed in Peski in 1781-88 in the style of high Classicism (architect P. E
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Peski
PESKI (sands), the historical name of the area in the centre of St. Petersburg, between the Neva River, Nevsky Prospect and Ligovsky Avenue, on both sides of Suvorovsky Avenue. The name is caused by the nature of the ground
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Sovetskie Streets, First - Tenth
SOVETSKIE STREETS, First - Tenth (were called Rozhdestvenskie Streets from 1798 to 1923, after the Nativity of Our Lord Church, with the present-day name given on occasion of the 6th anniversary of the October Revolution of 1917)
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