Lansere N.E. (1879-1942), architect

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LANSERE Nikolay Evgenyevich (1879, St. Petersburg -1942), architect and graphic artist, architectural historian and teacher. He was the brother of E.E. Lansere and Z.E. Serebryakova. He graduated from the architectural department of the Higher Arts College attached to the Academy of Arts (1904). Member of the World of Art Union. He taught architectural composition as a professor at various educational institutions, such as E.F. Bogaeva Higher Female Architectural Courses (from 1913), Female Pedagogical Polytechnic Courses (1916-1918), Higher Arts and Technical Institute (1927-30s) etc. He was one of the organisers and a secretary of the Museum of Old St. Petersburg (from 1907). In 1922-1931, he performed the functions of the curator of the historical and domestic department of the State Russian Museum. His works built in the style of retrospectivism include the Synoptic Pavilion on Malaya Konyushennaya Street (1913, restored in 1997), residential houses at 10 Pesochnaya Embankment (1913-14), 43 Tchaikovskogo Street (co-designed, 1914-1916), the School of the Folk Art (now 2A Griboedov Canal Embankment, built in 1914-1915). He participated in the designing of the Historical and Artistic Exhibition of Portraits in the Tauride Palace (1905), the Lomonosov and the Epoch of Elizaveta exhibition (1912) etc. He also practised graphics, the examination and maintenance of monuments. Lansere researched and wrote a number of historical works on architecture (Gatchina Palace, Main Admiralty, Fountain House etc.), they were published in Starye Gody (Old Years) journal and came out as separate editions. After the February Revolution of 1917, he was a member of the Special Conference upon the issues of art attached to the Provisional Government. After the Revolution he continued drafting architectural projects (the residential building of the All-Union Institute of Experimental Medicine at 69-71 Kamennoostrovsky Avenue; "Big House", among other architects). From 1923, he was a member of the Council of Old St. Petersburg Society. Lansere was the first to perform restoration work in Alexander Pushkin's apartment on Moika River Embankment. He took part in the preparation of the exhibition in Peter the Great's Summer Palace. In 1931, he fell victim to the repression, and in 1938 was arrested for the second time. Lansere died in prison. He lived in N.L. Benois' house at 15 Glinki Street.

References: Оль Г. А., Лансере Н. Н. Н. Е. Лансере. Л., 1986; Бернер А. В. Род Бенуа и сталинские репрессии // 200 лет семье Бенуа в России: Юбил. сб. СПб., 1994. С. 29; Исаченко В.Г. Творческий путь Н. Е. Лансере // Краеведческие записки: Исслед. и материалы. СПб., 1995. Вып. 3.С. 167-169.

V. A. Frolov. Bagaeva E.F.
Benois Nikolay Leontievich
Lansere Evgeny Evgenievich
Lansere Nikolay Evgenievich
Peter I, Emperor
Pushkin Alexander Sergeevich
Serebryakova Zinaida Evgenievna
Glinka St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 15
Griboedova Canal Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 2, litera л. А
Kamennoostrovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 71
Kamennoostrovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 69
Malaya Konyushennaya St./Saint Petersburg, city
Pesochnaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 10
Tchaikovskogo St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 43
Оль Г. А., Лансере Н. Н. Н. Е. Лансере. Л., 1986
Бернер А. В. Род Бенуа и сталинские репрессии // 200 лет семье Бенуа в России: Юбил. сб. СПб., 1994 Academy of Arts
Academy of Arts
World of Art, Association
Starye Gody (The Bygone Years), journal
Provisional Government of 1917
Bolshoy Dom
Old Petersburg, Society