Alexander Pomerantsev

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Alexander Pomerantsev
Alexander Nevsky Cathedral (Sofia),
Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Moscow,
Bridges and stations of Moscow Ring Railroad
AwardsBig Gold Medal of the Imperial Academy of Arts

Alexander Nikanorovich Pomerantsev (

commercial buildings
.

Training and early career

Pomerantsev was born in Moscow and graduated from the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1874. He furthered his education at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1874–78), winning the Academy scholarship for a five-year study tour of Italy, France and Switzerland (1878–1883). In 1887 he was awarded title of Academic of Architecture for his study of Cappella Palatina (1887, revised edition 1911).

The first buildings by Pomerantsev were built in Rostov-on-Don; the block-sized Moskovskaya Hotel, Rostov City Hall, and the Gench-Ogluev House (1883) were at that time the largest structures in the city. These buildings followed the European eclectic tradition.[1]

Upper Trading Rows

In 1889 Pomerantsev won an open competition

skylights, lower level suffered from inadequate ventilation, and, as a result, demand for shop space in the building did not meet the expectations.[4][5]

1896 Exhibition

In 1895 Pomerantsev was appointed chief architect of the 1896 All-Russian Exhibition in Nizhny Novgorod, an event heralded as the guiding light for the upcoming 20th century. Master plan and principal pavilions of the exhibition are credited personally to Pomerantsev.[6] Most pavilions relied on novel steel frame load-bearing structures designed by Shukhov; they "represented the most advanced use of metal-frame construction for their time and possibly the first use of a metal membrane roof"[7] (Shukhov Rotunda). Pomerantsev's Pavilion of Arts was based on traditional structure, but stylistically predated Charles Girault's Petit Palais (1900) and is considered the forerunner of emerging Russian Art Nouveau.[8] When the Pavilion was eventually torn down, its framing and finishes were reused for the People's House theater in Saint Petersburg.[1]

Moscow Ring Railroad

Around 1900 Pomerantsev joined the team of engineers and architects (

Victorian Gothic and traditional eclecticism leaning to neoclassicism yet were clearly styled as a cohesive ensemble. All were built in unfinished red brick with white decorative inserts in line with industrial architecture of the period.[9]

Cathedrals

Pomerantsev lost the 1893–1894 competition for the

Moskovsky Rail Terminal, retaining Thon's original facade; the project did not materialize.[11]

In 1898 Pomerantsev designed

Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Sofia. The Neo-Byzantine cathedral, rated for 5,000 worshippers,[12] was built to commemorate Russian dead of the 1877–1878 war
. Work began in 1882, although most of the structure was actually built in 1904–1912.

Pomerantsev' last major work was also a church dedicated to Saint

Victor Vasnetsov to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Emancipation reform of 1861. Pomerantsev himself contributed financially to the construction that dragged from 1910 until the February Revolution.[9] In 1934 Arkady Mordvinov and Alexey Dushkin proposed conversion of the unfinished cathedral into the Radio House skyscraper;[13]
the plan never materialized and the dilapidated concrete shell was torn down in 1952.

Educator

Pomerantsev joined the faculty of the Academy in 1888; in 1893 he was elected full member of the Academy. Pomerantsev headed a department of its Art College since 1893 and briefly headed the Academy itself in 1899-1900. Since 1899 Pomerantsev also served as visiting professor at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.[6]

In 1893 the Academy reformed its architectural school, creating three parallel graduate workshops, and assigned

Alexander Tamanyan and Sergey Serafimov.[16]

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References and notes

  1. ^ a b Naschokina, p. 384
  2. ^ a b Brumfield, p. 20
  3. ^ Brumfield, pp. 26, 28
  4. ^ a b Brumfield, p. 28
  5. ^ Brumfield, p. 20, notes that building was designed to house between 1,000 and 1,200 retail and wholesale shops.
  6. ^ a b Naschokina, p. 379
  7. ^ Brumfield, p. 25
  8. ^ a b Naschokina, p. 381
  9. ^ a b Naschokina, p. 383
  10. ^ Lisovsky, pp. 137-138
  11. ^ Lisovsky, p. 267
  12. ^ Bousfield et al., p. 92
  13. ^ Alexey Dushkin and Arkady Mordvinov (1934). "Draft of the House of Radio on Miusskaya Square". Sovarch.ru. Retrieved 2008-05-31.
  14. ^ Lisovsky, p. 293
  15. ^ Lisovsky, p. 306
  16. ^ Lisovsky, p. 334

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