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 61 (2014)
Elena Ivanova.
Regarding the History of Creation of Architect D. I. Grimm’s Project of the Grand Dukes’ Burial Vault in Petropavlovskaya Fortress
The paper looks at the origins of the ideas embodied in the project of the Burial Vault of the Grand Dukes in Petropavlovskaya Fortress, designed by D. I. Grimm, and its connection with the gavit, erected in Armenia in the 12th century, of the Surb Nshan Church in the Akhpat Monastery. The author establishes a connection between both constructions by conducting a comparative analysis of two previously unknown earlier variants of the project, kept in the Scientific-Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts, and of the plans of the gavit, which D. I. Grimm published in his collection of engravings “Monuments of Christian Architecture in Georgia and Armenia” (St. Petersburg, 1866). Unlike the widespread “historical” approach in architecture, when in creating modern buildings only external decorative forms and stylistic features were used, in the case of the Grand Dukes’ Burial Vault, the author takes as a basis of the project the constructive scheme of crisscross pair arches, which he discovered as he was studying the Armenian construction.
Keywords
Grand Dukes’ Burial Vault, Petropavlovskaya Fortress, D. I. Grimm, gavit, Akhpat, ouvrage, crisscross arches.
Ivanova Elena
Scientific-Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts, senior research fellow, custodian of the Fund of Architectural Graphics.
E-mail: elena_museum@mail.ru
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