The Russian Academy Of Arts

The Department of Art History and Art Criticism of the Russian Academy of Arts (RAA) in partnership with the Research Institute of Theory and History of Fine Arts of the Russian Academy of Arts invite you to take part in the research conference – XXXIV Alpatov Readings “Alexey V. Shchusev and Russian Art Culture of the First Half of the 20^th Century. In Honor of the 150^th Anniversary of the Architect”, that will take place in the White Hall of the Russian Academy of Arts (21 Prechistenka street, Moscow) on November 23, 2023 at 10.30 am.  

 

The Conference deals with the creative activity of the eminent architect, Academician Alexey V. Shchusev (1873-1949), who worked successfully in different periods of Russian culture and created buildings in the neo-Russian style in the early 20^th century, in the style of constructivism of the 1920s and Stalin architecture of the 1930s-1940s. The Conference goals are: to study the art legacy of Alexey Shchusev in various years – the pre-revolutionary time, the 1920s and the 1930s-1940s; to explore the mutual influence of the work of the leading masters of the art culture of the first half of the 20^th century and Alexey Shchusev; to analyze A.V. Shchusev’s contribution to the Russian church architecture; to study the little-known side of A.V. Shuchev’s activity as a designer of church utensils; to analyze the impact of A.V. Shchusev on the architecture of constructivism; to explore A.V. Shchusev’s creative heritage in the Russian museum funds; to introduce new materials about the work of A.V. Shchusev in the 1930s – 1940s into scientific circulation. The above tasks and goals will allow us to generalize the significance of A.V. Shchusev’s work in the context of Russian and world architecture, to scrutinize the little known aspects of his creative legacy, to learn the unknown pages of his creative biography. The Conference will be accompanied by publication of a collective monograph.

 

The Conference Organizing Committee:     

 

The Chairman: Zurab K. Tsereteli, President of the Russian Academy of Arts

The Co-Chairman: Dmitry O. Shvidkovsky, Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Arts

 

Members of the Organizing Committee:

     -Oleg A. Koshkin, Academician of the RAA, Chief Scientific Secretary of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Arts

     - Marianna V. Evstratova, Corresponding Member of the International Academy of Architecture, researcher of A.V. Shchusev’s work, Director of the Museum and Library Complex of the Moscow Institute of Architecture;

     - Yulia E. Revzina, Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts, Doctor of Art History, Head of the Department of Monumental Art and Architecture of the Research Institute of Theory and History of Fine Arts of the RAA;

     - Elena O. Romanova, Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts, Advisor to the Department of Art History and Art Criticism of the RAA.

 

VIDEO BROADCAST OF THE CONFERENCE IN RUSSIAN - https://youtu.be/za1BIwnDsX8

THE CONFERENCE PROGRAM

 

Venue: the White Hall of the Russian Academy of Arts, 21 Prechistenka street, Moscow

 

November 23, 2023

 

 

10.30 – 14.00 - Morning Session

Moderator: Dmitry O. Shvidkovsky

 

Opening speeches:

Victor G. Kalinin , the First Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Arts;

Tatyana A. Kochemasova, Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Arts

 

Dmitry O. Shvidkovsky, Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Arts, President of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences, Rector of the Moscow Institute of Architecture

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ALEXEY V. SHCHUSEV’S WORK

 

Elizaveta V. Gorelysheva, Custodian of the Department of Graphics of the 18^th – early 20^th Centuries, the State Tretyakov Gallery

THE HISTORY OF THE ARRANGEMENT OF THE EXHIBITION “ALEXEY SHCHUSEV. THE ARCHITECT, ARTIST, DIRECTOR…” IN THE TRETYAKOV GALLERY

 

Svetlana L. Bobrova, PhD in Art History, Director of the Memorial Museum “S.T. Konenkov Creative Workshop”, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Arts

SERGEY T. KONENKOV AND ALEXEY V. SHCHUSEV: THE PARALLELS OF FATES AND CREATIVITY

 

 

 

Sergey V. Koluzakov, researcher in architecture, the work by Alexey Shchusev and the archives of his inheritors, Senior Lecturer of the Architecture Department of the Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography

THE CREATIVE UNION OF ALEXEY SHCHUSEV AND MICKHAIL NESTEROV: MARFO-MARIINSKY MONASTERY, THE CATHEDRAL OF THE HOLY TRINITY IN SUMY, THE TOMBSTONE FOR P.A. STOLYPIN

 

Pavel S. Pavlinov, PhD in Art History, Associate Professor of the Chair for the Theory and History of Fine Arts of V. Surikov Moscow State Art Institute, Doctor of Art History of Ca’Foscari Institute, Leading Researcher of the Research Institute of Theory and History of Fine Arts of the Russian Academy of Arts

ALEXEY SHCHUSEV AND EVGENY LANSERE. THE UNION OF ARTS

 

Andrey A. Zolotov, Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Arts, Professor, Honored Art Worker of Russia

ALEXEY SHCHUSEV AND IVAN ZHOLTOVSKY. THE ARCHITECTURE INSPIRATIONS

 

Anatoly A. Oksenyuk, PhD in History, Deputy Director for Research Work of A.V. Shchusev State Research Museum of Architecture

ALEXEY SHCHUSEV’S ACTIVITY FOR PRESERVATION AND STUDY OF THE MONUMENTS OF ARCHITECTURE IN 1900-1917

 

Lyubov A. Chetverukhina, Senior Researcher of the Manuscripts Department of the State Tretyakov Gallery

ALEXEY SHCHUSEV AND IGOR GRABAR: THE STAGES OF CREATIVE COOPERATION

 

14.00 – 14.40 – Break

 

14.40 -19.00 - Afternoon Session

Moderator: Yulia E. Revzina

 

Yulia G. Klimenko, Doctor of Architecture, Professor, Moscow Institute of Architecture

ALEXEY SHCHUSEV AND IGOR GRABAR: AT THE ORIGINS OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MUSEUM OF ARCHITECTURE

 

Irina B. Shalugina, PhD in History, Scientific Secretary of the All-Russian Museum of Decorative Art;

Sergey V. Koluzakov, researcher in architecture, the work by Alexey Shchusev and the archives of his inheritors, Senior Lecturer of the Architecture Department of the Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography

THE AUTHOR, ARCHITECT SHCHUSEV. THE FIRST PRESENTATION OF THE COLLECTION OF ALEXEY SHCHUSEV FROM THE FUNDS OF THE ALL-RUSSIAN MUSEUM OF DECORATIVE ARTS

 

Yulia V. Ratomskaya, Scientific Secretary, A.V. Shchusev State Research Museum of Architecture

ON THE MONUMENTAL PAINTING IN THE CHURCH ARCHITECTURE OF ALEXEY SHCHUSEV

 

Sergey I. Orlov, PhD in Art History, the Leading Researcher of the Research Institute of Theory and History of Fine Arts of the Russian Academy of Arts

TRADITIONS OF THE OLD RUSSIAN WHITE STONE CARVING IN GRAPHICS AND ARCHITECTURAL PROJECTS OF ALEXEY SHCHUSEV

 

Irina Y. Perfilieva, Doctor of Art History, Chief Researcher of the Research Institute of Theory and History of Fine Arts of the Russian Academy of Arts

THE SET OF THE SILVER UTENCILS PRODUCED ACCORDING TO THE SKETCHES OF ALEXEY SHCHUSEV FOR MARFO-MARIINSKY MONASTERY: THE UNIQUE ENSEMBLE - THE MONUMENT OF RUSSIAN ART CULTURE   

 

The Abbess Innokentia (Popova), Abbess of Seraphim – Znamensky monastery in Domodedo District near Moscow

ALEXEY V. SHCHUSEV – AUTHOR OF THE DESIGN OF SERAPHIM-ZNAMENSKY MONASTERY

 

Valentina Sh. Khairova, architect, independent researcher, Member of the Association of Art Historians

THE PAVILION OF TURKESTAN AT THE ALL-RUSSIAN AGRICULTURAL, HANDICRAFT AND INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION IN 1923: THE UNKNOWN MATERIALS

 

Maria A. Kostyuk, PhD in Art History, Chief Custodian of the Museum of the Moscow Institute of Architecture

Elena Y. Basnina, Custodian of the Museum Funds of the Moscow Institute of Architecture        

“THE BIRTH OF THE NEW ARCHITECTURE. THE USSR AT THE CONSTRUCTION SITE OF THE FIRST EXHIBITION”: EXHIBITION IN THE GALLERY OF VKHUTEMAS AND MARKHI IN HONOR OF THE 150^TH ANNIVERSARY OF ALEXEY SHCHUSEV

 

Yulia D. Starostenko, PhD in Architecture, Chief Researcher, Alexey Shchusev State Research Museum

THE CONTRIBUTION OF ALEXEY SHCHUSEV TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF “MODERM ARCHITECTURE” OF THE 1920s (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE BUILDING OF NARKOMZEM)

 

Boris N. Bocharnikov, post-graduate of V. Surikov Moscow State Art Institute under the Russian Academy of Arts

UNREALIZED ALEXEY SHCHUSEV’S DESIGNS OF THE 1930s-1940s AND THEIR IMPACT ON THE PROJECTS OF HIS PUPILS - A.F. ZHUKOV AND D.N. CHECHULIN

 

Vladimir A. Yakovlev, artist-restorer of the Memorial Museum “Sergey Konenkov Creative Workshop” of the Museum and Exhibition Complex of the Russian Academy of Arts

THE HISTORICAL HERITAGE AND RESTORATION ACTIVITY IN THE CREATIVE BIOGRAPHY OF ALEXEY SHCHUSEV

 

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