The biography of Ukhtomsky briefly

Architect Dmitry Ukhtomsky Dmitry Ukhtomsky was born in G. came from the impoverished princely family of Ukhtomsky, was a direct descendant of Yuri Dolgoruky in a knee. At the age of twelve, Dmitry was sent to the Moscow school of mathematical and Navigatsky sciences. Two years later, he was admitted to the architecture team of Ivan Michurin, in which he studied and worked for almost 10 years.

In Ukhtomsky, he received the title of state architect and the captain’s rank. The first success of D. Ukhtomsky is connected with the coronation of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna in the city for this event, he built numerous wooden triumphal arches and pavilions. At the beginning of G. Ukhtomsky was appointed chief architect of Moscow, and in the fall of the same year organized his workshop.

Then it was called the "team", and, in fact, was a school with a practical bias. The duties of architects were extremely wide: from the development of the project of the building to the supply of materials and the construction itself. At first there were 10 students in the team, and by the city of the most capable students were involved in teaching. One of them was Matvey Kazakov, admitted to school in the city, by the way, in the GG.

Both talented, almost the same age, they have maintained friendly relations for life. In and gg. Dmitry Ukhtomsky developed the first general plans of post -aimed Moscow. In e gg.

Around the same time, Ukhtomsky built for Chancellor A. Bestuzhev-Ryumin Palace of the Estate in Lefortovo-the Slobodsky Palace. The building is preserved in a very rebuilt form. Now in it is the Moscow State Technical University. However, the period released by the Empress Elizabeth Petrovna to reign has expired. The era of "Elizabethan Baroque" ended. Kazakov left his school even earlier, in the city of the court he met the architect in the city and was there where to return?

His first assistant soon became Matvey Kazakov. The era of classicism came. Ukhtomsky went to his Tula estate, where he died on October 4, he was 55 years old. Much, from the built by Ukhtomsky, died in fires. Part was destroyed by people: in gg. The houses of Ukhtomsky in Moscow Basmanny Old, cells and the temple of the Nikitsky monastery. Ukhtomsky, Baumanskaya, building for the institutions of the Senate "Senate House".

After the fire of the city of Baumanskaya 2nd, 5. Slobodsky Palace. Ukhtomsky,; Perestroika on the project of J. Quarengi under the leadership of Matvey Kazakov,; D. Zhilardi, recovery after the fire of G. Red Gate Square. Red Gate. Perestroika in the stone of the wooden gate, built according to the project of M. Zemtsov in honor of the coronation of Elizabeth Petrovna in the city, were destroyed in Nikoloamskaya, the Church of Alexy in Rogozhskaya Sloboda.

Restored to and Petrovka, 28 C7. Buildings on the territory of the high-Petrovsky monastery. Pokrovka, the estate of the Apraxins - Trubetskoy. Pokrovka, 31 in the yard. Chamber of Chamberlain V. Pyatnitskaya, the refectory and the bell tower of the temple of Clement. Radio, main house of the Demidov estate. Ukhtomsky and Bazhenov, e. Raushsky 2nd, Church of Nicholas the Wonderworker.

The raw-tied 3rd, the main house of the Dolgoruky estate is Shen. Ukhtomsky,; Freidenberg and Chagin,