Alexey Victorovich Shchusev[a] (Russian: Алексей Викторович Щусев; 8 October [O.S. 26 September] 1873 – 24 May 1949) was a Russian and Soviet architect who was successful during three consecutive epochs of Russian architecture – Art Nouveau (broadly construed), Constructivism, and Stalinist architecture,[2] being one of the few Russian architects to be celebrated under both the Romanovs and the communists, becoming the most decorated architect in terms of Stalin prizes awarded.[3]
In the 1900s, Shchusev established himself as a church architect, and developed his proto-modernist style, which blended Art Nouveau with Russian Revival architecture. Immediately before and during World War I he designed and built railway stations for the von Meck family, notably the Kazansky Rail Terminal in Moscow. After the October Revolution, Shchusev pragmatically supported the Bolsheviks, and was rewarded with the contract for the Lenin Mausoleum. He consecutively designed and built three mausoleums, two temporary and one permanent, and supervised the latter's further expansion in the 1940s. In the 1920s and early 1930s he successfully embraced Constructivist architecture, but quickly reverted to historicism when the government deemed modernism inappropriate for the Communist state.
His career proceeded smoothly until September 1937, when, after a brief public smear campaign, Shchusev lost all his executive positions and design contracts, and was effectively banished from architectural practice. Modern Russian historians of art agree that the charges of professional dishonesty, plagiarism, and exploitation raised against Shchusev were, for the most part, justified. In the following years he gradually returned to practice, and restored his public image as the patriarch of Stalinist architecture. The causes of his downfall and the forces behind his subsequent recovery remain unknown.
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Alexey Victorovich Shchusev (Russian: Алексей Викторович Щусев; 8 October [O.S. 26 September] 1873 – 24 May 1949) was a Russian and Soviet architect who...
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structure. The most popular (possibly apocryphal) explanation is that Shchusev submitted a single conceptual drawing of the façade to Stalin, with one...
ancient models. The author of the design was the renowned architect AlexeyShchusev, who also had the two previous mausoleums built. From the completion...
where it is displayed to this day. The mausoleum itself was modeled by AlexeyShchusev on the Pyramid of Djoser and the Tomb of Cyrus. In late 19th-century...
officials. The Shchusev State Museum of Architecture is the national museum of Russian architecture by the name of the architect AlexeyShchusev near the Kremlin...
post-revolutionary period was the mass reconstruction of cities. In 1918 AlexeyShchusev (1873–1949) and Ivan Zholtovsky founded the Mossovet Architectural...
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founded the month before. The Studio was headed by Ivan Zholtovsky, and AlexeyShchusev Cooke, Catherine (1999). "Sources of a Radical Mission in the Early...
Church (both - in Oslo). The katholikon of Marfo-Mariinsky Convent by AlexeyShchusev in Moscow Church of the Holy Spirit in Talashkino Old Believers chapel...
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landscape and placed him alongside architects such as Vasily Bazhanov and AlexeyShchusev who also contributed to Moscow's urban landscape.[citation needed]...
replenishment of the gallery's collection. In 1926 architect and academician AlexeyShchusev became the director of the gallery. In the following year the gallery...
forty remained standing. After the war, thanks to plans laid down by AlexeyShchusev, the central part was gradually restored. In 1992, the chief monuments...
1918 the Church of the Transfiguration was built here by architect AlexeyShchusev. In 1925 the Fraternal Cemetery was closed for burials. In 1932 it...
competition, confident that the old-school commission led by Igor Grabar, AlexeyShchusev and Ivan Zholtovsky was biased against modernist art. Neoclassicists...
Construction of the modern building according to the design by architect AlexeyShchusev started in 1913 and ended in 1940. The building resembles the Söyembikä...
Marfo-Mariinsky Convent (1908–1912), an updated Russian Orthodox Church by AlexeyShchusev, who later, ironically, designed Lenin's Mausoleum in Moscow. Several...
engineering Nikolay Semyonov: chemical physics Sergei Sobolev: mathematics AlexeyShchusev: architecture Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev: aeronautical engineering...
Ilya Bondarenko, who was the architect of two Old Believers churches, AlexeyShchusev, who is mostly known for his works during USSR time and notably design...
portraits; notably Ivan Ilyin, Ivan Pavlov, Otto Schmidt, Sergei Yudin, AlexeyShchusev and Vera Mukhina. In 1938, toward the end of the Great Purge, his son-in-law...
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