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Glinka, Vasily Andreyevich (1790-1831), an architect


Subject / Architecture/Personnel

Vasily Andreyevich Glinka (1790–1831), an architect, academician of architecture (1824), master of the Classicism style. He rebuilt H.P. Rumyantsev's house in Angliyskaya (English) Embankment for "The Public Museum" in the 1829s, took part in building the buildings of the People's Education Ministry and Emperor Theatres Board according to the project of K.I. Rossi (from 1828). Glinka designrd the Moscow Gate with guard-houses in Tsarskoye Selo (1829-1830). In 1830-1832 the Ingenburg and Smolensk (Dinaburg, Dvinsk) Gates, buildings of the Life Guards Garrison battalion barracks (they were rebuilt in 1875-1876) were built according to Glinka's projects in Gatchina. Vasily Andreyevich Glinka was buried in the Smolenskoye Orthodox cemetery in St. Petersburg.

Authors
Margolis, Aleksandr Davidovich

Persons
Glinka, Vasily Andreyevich
Rossi, Karl Ivanovich (Carlo Giovanni)
Rumyantsev, Nikolay Petrovich, Count

Geography
Leningrad Oblast, the/Gatchina District/Gatchina Town

Bibliography
Памятники архитектуры пригородов Ленинграда. Л., 1983, 312-313, 318
Кючарианц Д.А. Гатчина: Художественные памятники /Д.А.Кючарианц, А.Г.Раскин: 300 лет С.-Петербургу: Издательская программа.- СПб.: Лениздат, 2001.-318 с.: ил., 268-273