Biography of Pavel Petrovich Trubetskoy
Pavel Petrovich Troubetzkoy (02/15/1866 – 02/12/1938), Russian sculptor-impressionist. He worked in private studios (1884) and in our own workshop (1885 – 1897) in Milan. In 1897 – 1906 lived in St. Petersburg and in Moscow (he taught at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture), from 1906 – in France, USA and Italy. In his works (mainly genre and portrait statues and portrait busts) Trubetskoy aspired to a life directly. Ostro and accurately grasp the movement, gesture, character models, he imprinted it in the fast plastic outline. Executed in engineering modeling expressive separate strokes, often preserving fingerprint sculptor on wet clay, they differ in a picturesque, rich chiaroscuro effects of texture of plastic form (the "Moscow cabby, 1898, portrait of Leo Tolstoy, 1899, – two bronze, the Russian Museum , Leningrad). The author of the monument to Alexander III in St. Petersburg (bronze, 1900 – 1906); inherent monument expression ponderous brute force gave him an objectively revealing meaning.
Lit.: Schmidt MI, Trubetskoy, M., 1964.