Eropkin P.M. (about 1698-1740), architect.

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EROPKIN Peter Mikhailovich (about 1698-1740, St. Petersburg), architect, urban planner, architecture theorist. In 1716-24 on the order of the Tsar Peter the Great he was trained in Italy, in 1725 he was conferred a title of architect. From 1737 he worked as the main architect of the Commission on St. Petersburg Buildings. From 1738, he was a commissioner holding the rank of general. He was in charge of compiling the General plan of St. Petersburg (he accomplished planning of the city started by D. Trezzini), he worked up projects of planning and building of the central districts (Admiralteiskaya, Kazanskaya, Moskaya, Vyborgskaya, Okhtenskaya perts), having fixed the system of three radial Avenues, planning of Kolomna, Ekaterinhof, settlements for the Semenovsky and Izmailovsky Life Guard regiments. Sheremetev Palace (The Fountain House), the house of the chancellor A.I. Osterman at 4 Angliiskaya Embankment, the palace of the prince A.M. Cherkassky at 18 Dvortsovaya Embankment (all were later rebuilt), the Ice house (1739-40) were executed to his designs. He worked on Alexander Nevsky Monastery, on Peterhof, Oranienbaum, Strelna, Ropsha. He was in charge compiling the first Russian architectural and building code. The author of “Significance of the Architectural Expedition” (1737-41, finished by M.G. Zemtsov); he translated four books on architecture by A. Palladio into Russian. Eropkin was an active member of the circle headed by A.P. Volynsky, for which he was condemned and executed. He is buried at the fence of St. Sampson’s Cathedral. In 1886, by the initiative of the editor of Russkaya Starina magazine, M.I. Semevsky on the place of the dilapidated monument installed by order of the Empress Elizaveta Petrovna a monument to Volynsky, A.F. Khruschov and Eropkin (architect M.A. Shurupov, sculptor A.M. Opekushin).

References: Калязина Н. В., Калязин Е. А. Петр Еропкин // Зодчие Санкт-Петербурга, XVIII век. СПб., 1997. С. 156-190; Исаченко В. Г. Главный архитектор: К 300-летию со дня рождения П. М. Еропкина // Адмиралтейство. 1998. № 2. С. 83-85.

В. Г. Исаченко. Cherkassky Alexsey Mikhailovich, Duke
Elizaveta Petrovna, Empress
Eropkin Peter Mikhailovich
Khrushchov Andrey Fedorovich
Opekushin Alexander Mikhailovich
Osterman Andrey Ivanovich (Heinrich Johann Friedrich), Count
Palladio (real name Di Pietro) Andrea
Peter I, Emperor
Semevsky Mikhail Ivanovich
Shchurupov Mikhail Arefievich
Trezzini Domenico
Volynsky Artemy Petrovich
Zemtsov Mikhail Grigorievich
Angliiskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 4
Dvortsovaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 18
Калязина Н. В., Калязин Е. А. Петр Еропкин // Зодчие Санкт-Петербурга, XVIII век. СПб., 1997
Исаченко В. Г. Главный архитектор: К 300-летию со дня рождения П. М. Еропкина // Адмиралтейство, 1998 General Plans for the Development of Petersburg-Leningrad
Sheremetev Palace
Ice House
St. Sampson’s Cathedral
1739
1740