Alexey Shchusev: Architect No. 1
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Alexey Shchusev: Architect No. 1
29.99 €
"Beauty has no recipes!" - Alexey Viktorovich Shchusev was fond of repeating. He was an amazing man. The structures built according to his designs would be enough for a whole city, where there would be a place for temples and theaters, train stations and bridges, subway stations and hotels, apartment buildings and sanatoriums, and even one mausoleum. And all this was done with great taste and sense of proportion. But how could one architect manage all this? Where did he take his strength and where did he draw inspiration, calling himself an "eternal Stakhanovite"? This is the subject of a new book by writer and historian Alexander Vaskin. The figure of Alexei Shchusev appears before us against the background of a complex and contradictory era in which the outstanding architect created (or rather, two eras - the tsarist and Soviet). He went through everything - fire, and water, and copper pipes, experienced the rise and fall, but managed to preserve human dignity and his own creative handwriting. About Shchusev's work in Russia, Italy, Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Moldavia, Uzbekistan; about his relationships with prominent figures of Russian art - Mikhail Nesterov, Vera Mukhina, Pavel Korin, Ivan Zholtovsky, Alexander Benois, Evgeny Lansere, Natalia Goncharova, Nikolai Roerich; about his unrealized projects tells this book. When writing the biography of Shchusev, the author studied a lot of archival documents, many of which are cited and quoted here for the first time (including the report card with gymnasium grades and even a labor book). The book is published on the 150th anniversary of the architect.
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