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P. IgnatevSt Petersburg Repin Academy of Fine Arts; State Museum of Urban Sculpture
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On History of the Creation of the Sculptural Group for the House of People’s Commissariat of the Soviet Navy on Petrovskaya EmbankmentAbstractIn the late 1930s, extensive building construction begins in Leningrad. The building commissioner is the People's Commissariat of the Soviet Navy, established in 1937. Educational buildings are being built (for example, on Chelyuskintsev Square (now Zanevskaya Square), residential buildings in Vologodskaya and Slutskogo street (now Chapygina and Tavricheskaya) were erected. In most cases, D. Buryshkin becomes the architect of these buildings, the author of the decorative design of buildings is sculptor Ya. Troupiansky. Troupiansky. However, the exception to the established practice of cooperation was the construction of the House of the People’s Commissariat of the Soviet Navy on Petrovskaya Embankment, 8. The architects of the large residential complex in the city center were E. Levinson and I. Fomin. By the time the construction was completed in 1938-1940, the project had finally lost its initial “constructivist” features. The new aesthetics demanded decoration in the forms of socialist realism. The famous neoclassicist Ya. Troupiansky who became famous in 1910s, was invited as an experienced specialist in the field of concrete decorative sculpture. Together with his young assistants and the team of the moulder A. Gromov, the sculptor had to create a 6-meter-high composition depicting a seaman and a shipbuilder. The implementation of the project was hampered not only by personal disagreements between the creators of different generations, technical difficulties (installation of heavy sculpture at high altitude), but also by the beginning of the siege of Leningrad. The study of Troupyansky's personal archive, the comparison of comprehensive research and sculptor’s handwritten memoirs made it possible to recreate the entire process of erecting a monumental sculpture, as well as its restoration by the author of the article. KeywordsTroupiansky; Soviet sculpture; architecture of Leningrad; cement sculpture; conservation of monumental and decorative sculpture; References
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