Stasov V.P. (1769-1848), architect

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STASOV Vasily Petrovich (1769-1848, St. Petersburg), architect, representative of the Empire style. The father of V.V. Stasov. From 1783, worked in the Moscow Bureau of Architecture of the Police Department. In 1801-07, completed a traineeship in France and Italy. From 1811, lived in St. Petersburg. Was conferred the title of associate member of the Academy of Fine Arts (1811). Architect of the Committee for Buildings and Water Works (since 1817). Stasov's first works consisted of the quarters for the Pavlovsky Life Guards Regiment, Yamskoy Market (1817-19) and the Court Stables with a domestic church, and were significant in terms of city-planning, anticipating K.I. Rossi's compositional ideas. Using predominantly Dorian architectural forms, Stasov imparted an austere and solemn touch to his works, which is noticeable in the Narva Triumphal Gates and Moscow Triumphal Gates, monuments to Russian Military Glory. Stasov designed the regimental Holy Trinity Cathedral and Holy Transfiguration All Guards Cathedral, participated in finishing Smolny Cathedral (see Cathedral of the Renewal of the Jerusalem Holy Resurrection Temple), having designed its interiors. Stasov also worked on private commissions: apartment houses at 6 Sredny Avenue of Vasilievsky Island; 32 Millionnaya Street; 91 Griboedova Canal Embankment; Kotomin's house. Manor-houses built in downtown St. Petersburg have not survived: Bergin's house (11 St. Isaac's Square) and Svistunov's house (19 Bolshaya Morskaya Street). Stasov supervised the reconstruction of the Winter Palace after the fire of 1837, decoration of the Oldenburgsky Palace (2 Dvortsovaya Embankment), rebuilding of the Jurisprudence Academy. In Tsarskoe Selo, he built the cast iron gates To My Good Fellow-collegues, the Great Conservatory, Riding-Hall and the Stables building. In 1817-30, he lived at 16 First Line of Vasilievsky Island, in 1843-48, at 40 Galernaya Street (memorial plaque). Buried at Necropolis of Artists. In 1969, a bust to Stasov was unveiled by the southern facade of the Holy Trinity Cathedral (sculptor М. Т. Litovchenko, architect Z.M. Verzhbitsky; in 2003, transferred).

References: Пилявский В. И. Стасов архитектор. Л., 1963; Салита Е. Г. Стасовы в Петербурге - Петрограде. Л., 1982; Тыжненко Т. Е. Василий Стасов. Л., 1990.

V. V. Antonov. Bergin
Kotomin K.B.
Rossi Carl Ivanovich (Carlo Giovanni)
Stasov Vasily Petrovich
Stasov Vladimir Vasilievich
Svistunov Nikolay Petrovich
the Oldenburgskys, princes
1st Line of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 16
Bolshaya Morskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 19
Dvortsovaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 2
Galernaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 40
Griboedova Canal Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 91
Millionnaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 32
Sredny Ave of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 6
St.Isaac's Square/Saint Petersburg, city, house 11
Пилявский В. И. Стасов архитектор. Л., 1963
Салита Е. Г. Стасовы в Петербурге - Петрограде. Л., 1982
Тыжненко Т.Е. Василий Стасов. Л., 1990 Academy of Arts
Academy of Arts
Moscow Triumphal Arch
Narva Triumphal Arch
Holy Trinity Cathedral of the Izmailovsky Life Guards Regiment
Holy Transfiguration Cathedral
Cathedral of the Renewal of the Jerusalem Holy Resurrection Temple
House of Kotomin
Winter Palace
Law School
Necropolis of Artists