Alfred Parland Biography

By the anniversary of the death of an outstanding architect ”Hall of the Palace Description on August 2 to Griboedov“ Khmelita ”will open the exhibition“ Alfred Parland. By the summer from the day of the death of an outstanding architect.

” The exhibition will present portraits, photographs and drawings from the collection of the State Museum-Monetor “Isaac's Cathedral”, photographs of A. Parland and his relatives from the private meetings of E. Ledovskaya and M. as part of the exhibition, a lecture dedicated to the life and work of the St. Petersburg architect Aleksandrovich Parland. The lecture will be given by the candidate of art history, the senior researcher of the State Museum-Monetor "Isaac's Cathedral", the author of the monograph about the architect N.

Architect Alfred Alexandrovich Parland-Alfred Parland is similar to the artist-humanist of the Renaissance: he was closely in the narrow framework of one profession, he reached professional skills in various fields of art and life: in architecture and in architecture and in the architecture and in archeology, in the teaching and creation of scientific papers, in drawing in the watercolor technique.

Since childhood, well-owned English and German, Alfred Parsland received an excellent education at the technical college of Stuttgart and the Imperial Academy of Arts of St. Petersburg, the best educational institutions of Germany and Russia. During a pensioner practice in Europe, as a genuine artist, he was not limited to sketching and a measurement of architectural monuments, but also engaged in the restoration of buildings in Pompeii, collected material for his future textbook on the history of ancient architecture, seriously engaged in drawing and studying European languages.

Upon his return to his homeland, he was rebuilt by the Church of the Sign of the Mother of God in Peterhof for a year, according to his projects, stone buildings amazing in Russia throughout Russia were erected at the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries: the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin in the Pskov province, the church of the Protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the village of Pokrovsky Novgorod province, as well as a large three The cathedral in the name of the holy disrespects of Cosmas and Damian with a tent bell tower in the city of Sychevka and a two-story Nikolo-Gergievsky church in the village of Yadrevichi now-Smogiri Smolensk province.

He created dozens of civil structures: from the exchange building to the theater. Many were implemented: a private residential building in St. Petersburg, a manor on the banks of the Volga in the village of Yurino in the form of a romantic castle, a building of a commercial school in Rybinsk. Of course, the main work of Parland’s life is an architectural masterpiece in the center of St.

Petersburg-the temple of the Resurrection of Christ or, as Petersburgers call it, saved on blood. For more than twenty years of his life, he gave this construction, being his architect, and engineer, and decorator. The unique monument became the hallmark of the city, and the name of Alfred Alexandrovich Parland has forever remained in the history of domestic and world architecture.