Biography Rastrelli
Rastrelli (Rastrelli) – Two Italian painter who worked in Russia. 1) Carlo Bartolomeo R., foundry, metal and sculptor. The time of his birth, as well as death is unknown. I bought a French noble title and in 1716 was called by Peter the Great in St. Petersburg for the casting of cannon and the artwork on the decoration of the new Russian capital. The first sculptural works, all performed in her RV, were the bronze figures on the motives of Aesop's fables, and they were placed on the left bank of the Neva, and were subsequently presented to Catherine II gr. Osterman and Beckov who ordered them to pour, so they are destroyed. Do not have survived as bronzes. bust S. Buchvostau cast on the orders of AR converter Russia, and leaden statues of the artist, decorated the alley and the fountains of the Summer and the Peterhof gardens. Of the sculptures, R. reached us only a bronze bust of Peter the Great, kept in the so-called. Apollo Hall of the Winter Palace, the statue of the emperor on horseback, and bas-reliefs Petrovsky monument in the square before the Engineers' Castle, and bronzes. Statue of Emperor. Anna Ivanovna, accompanied by pages, recently transferred from the Museum of Academy of Art. in the Imperial Museum. Alexander III. 2) Count Bartolommeo (Bartholomew Varfolomeyevich) R. – son, a talented architect. genus. about 1700 before finishing his apprenticeship, when his father moved to St. Petersburg. On accession to the throne of Catherine I, Senior RM has received from the Empress's permission to send his son, in order to complete his education, in foreign lands. The absence of young R. from Russia about five years before the arrival of pulses. Anna Ivanovna in St. Petersburg. Soon after returning from his travels, R. filed at the request of the empress, the project built on the site of the Winter Palace home Apraxin, jumping, bequest, from the owner of this property counts. Peter II. The project was originally composed only one front, overlooking the Admiralty building, but then extended to other fronts. The whole structure of the palace continued under the leadership of R. from 1735 to 1739 she brought the RV to the court area and gave him the opportunity to find patrons among the dignitaries of the time, and enter into the mercy of the almighty Biron. Robert was made chief architect of the court, with an annual salary of 600 rubles. Which, in the reign of Anna Leopoldovna rose to 1200 rubles. year. At that time, Robert was engaged in construction, on its projects, the palace for Biron in Mitau (now provincial. The government offices) and various buildings on his farmstead Rugendal. In addition, he directed the construction Annengofskogo and Lefortovo houses in Moscow. By Elizabeth's reign. Kurland built for Biron had stopped in 1741, and even expensive doors and windows of the palace mitavskogo moved to St. Petersburg for building a house then gr. Razumovsky, that now Anichkovsky Palace (1743). RS participated in the device celebrations for the coronation of the new empress in Moscow. The buildings, confiscated from nobles preceding reign, were distributed to devotees vossevshey to the Russian throne of Peter the Great's daughter, Razumovsky, Bestuzhev, Shuvalov, etc. It was necessary to rebuild them and adapt to new destinations, and most of the work is entrusted to R. Immediately upon his return from Moscow, the Empress, He began restructuring in Tsarskoe Selo, a modest house, which belonged to Catherine I, in huge, the current palace, are one of the most beautiful buildings in the whole of Russia. In general, with 1743 coming during the most feverish activity of R. At this time, they built the present Foundling Hospital (the former palace of Bobrinskys significantly altered, but kept the main features of its original architecture), home Vorontsov (now the Page Corps), gr. Stroganov, that the Police Bridge, The Church of the Assumption, in St. Petersburg., The main church in the Holy Trinity-St desert near Strelna, St. Andrew's Cathedral in Kiev, and several other buildings in both capitals, and in provincial cities where the projects were R. in most cases given in response to local architects. The most remarkable creation of RS must, however, assume the Smolny Convent in St. Petersburg. founded in 1749and rebuilt in the rough before 1755, which concluded that a group of buildings was shelved for lack of funds due to the huge costs, which were needed for Russia's participation in the Seven Years' War. Smolny Convent completed only at the beginning of this century Stasov, and in the decoration of the building made unimportant deviations from the original draft. Using the honor and formed several students continued to build in Russia a building in an Italian Baroque style, characterizing Rastrelli built (among other things Sawa Chevakinsky, sooruditelya Cathedral of St. Nicholas Marine, in St. Petersburg.) Gr. R. intelligence. 1771