New materials regarding research in the fields of architecture and urban construction are being presented. The authors also focus on the history of the creation of little-known buildings of interest, on the development of local architectural traditions, on new attributions, and introduce recently discovered archive materials. A number of papers are dedicated to the issues of architectural and urban planning development of historical towns and cities or study the formation of architectural ensembles. The edition also includes papers that are devoted to theoretical historical-architectural problems, to biographies of architects, or analyze artistic approaches and concepts.
Issue 60 (2014)
Pechenkin I. E.
Regarding the Origins of the Neo-Russian Style in the Architecture of the Second Half of the 19th Century
The author of the work attempts to point out the origins of the formation of the National-Romantic trend in local architecture of the late 19th — early 20th century (the so-called Neo-Russian Style), detecting them in the stylistic development of the preceding decades. The existing hypothesis, shared by many art historians in this country, presently needs additional interpretation or, possibly, revision. They believe that the new method of treating early Russian prototypes was spontaneously born in the course of the construction of the small church in a country estate in Abramtsevo, not far from Moscow, raised after a drawing by the painter V. Vasnetsov. In particular, the present paper stresses the fact that the “official” Alexander III’s Russian style appeared at the same time as the Abramtsevo Church was built. Apart from that, there is a connection between the origin of V. Vasnetsov’s architectural work and the decorative experiments of the 1870s, which makes it possible to view him within the context of the local Romantic tradition. The latter appeared to have been finally broken in the second half of the 19th century, practically until the beginning of the Art Nouveau epoch. The whole issue, doubtless, requires further serious research.
Keywords
19th century, national Romanticism, Historicism, Russian Style, Neo-Russian Style, V. A. Gartman, V. M. Vasnetsov.
Pechenkin Iliya Evgenievich
Candidate of Art History, Senior Researcher, NIITIAG RAASN.
E-mail: pech_archistory@mail.ru
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