Kosyakov Vas. A., Kosyakov Vl. A., Kosyakov G.A., architects

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KOSYAKOV family, architects, brothers, masters of Neo-Russian and Neoclassical styles. Vasily Antonovich Kosyakov (1862, St. Petersburg - 1921, Petrograd), graduated from the Civil Engineers' Institute (1885); from 1900, he was a professor at the same institute, director in 1905-21. He built a number of churches, such as Church of the Our Lady the Merciful at 100 Bolshoy Avenue of Vasilievsky Island (1888-98); Church of Epiphany on Dvinskaya Street; the Kiev Pechersk Lavra Metochion (1895-1900; the present-day Metochion of the Optina Monastery); the Metochion of the Holy Assumption Monastery at Staraya Ladoga (1905-1910). His major work is the St. Nicholas’ Naval Cathedral in Kronstadt (1902-1913; see St. Nicholas Naval Cathedral). His other buildings include house of Kosyakov at 57 Maly Avenue of Vasilievsky Island, a residential building on 53 Zhukovskogo Street (1904-1906); charity buildings on 5 Arsenalnaya Embankment and 20 Rasstannaya Street (1905-1908); the building for the Noble Assembly on 27 Italyanskaya Street (1912-1914, together with Vl. Kosyakov and G. Kosyakov). He was buried at Novodevichye cemetery. Vladimir Antonovich Kosyakov (1866, St. Petersburg - 1922, Petrograd), graduated from the Civil Engineers' Institute (1890). He was the co-designer of many building projects of Vasily Kosyakov. Together with Georgy Kosyakov, he built a residential-house at 50 Bolshoy Avenue of Vasilievsky Island (1910-11). He also built industrial buildings in various towns of the country, practised drawing, painted watercolours, and taught. He was buried at Novodevichye Cemetery. Georgy Antonovich Kosyakov (1872, St. Petersburg - 1925, Leningrad), graduated from the Academy of Arts (1900), a Fellow of the Academy of Architecture since 1911. He practised theatrical scene painting and graphics. Beside the works undertaken together with his brothers, he carried out independent projects, such as the building of Naval Library in Kronstadt (1909-1926), Troitsky Miniature Theatre at 18 Rubinstein Street (1911; present-day Maly Drama Theatre - Theatre of Europe).

References: Исаченко В. Г. Творчество братьев Косяковых // СиАЛ. 1981. № 6. С. 34-37; Его же. Братья Косяковы // Зодчие Санкт-Петербурга, XIX - начало XX века. СПб., 1998. С. 647-665.

V. G. Isachenko. Kosyakov Georgy Antonovich
Kosyakov Vasily Antonovich
Kosyakov Vladimir Antonovich
the Kosyakovs
Arsenalnaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 5
Bolshoy Ave of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 50
Bolshoy Ave of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 100
Dvinskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city
Italyanskaya Street/Saint Petersburg, city, house 27
Maly Vasilievsky Island Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 57
Rasstannaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 20
Rubinsteina St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 18
Zhukovskogo Street/Saint Petersburg, city, house 53
Исаченко В. Г. Творчество братьев Косяковых // Стр-во и архитектура Ленинграда, 1981
Исаченко В. Г. Братья Косяковы // Зодчие Санкт-Петербурга, XIX - начало XX века. СПб., 1998 Metochion of Kiev Pechersk Lavra
Metochion of the Holy Assumption Monastery in Staraya Ladoga
Naval Cathedral
Novodevichye Cemetery
Novodevichye Cemetery
Maly Drama Theatre - Theatre of Europe