Gornostayev, Aleksey Maksimovich (1808 - 1862), an architect

Subject / Architecture/Personnel
Aleksey Maksimovich Gornostayev (1808 - 1862), an architect, a founder of the national line in the Russian arcitecture. In 1834 he was certified at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, then he spent 4 years in the West Europe. In 1838 Gornostayev became an academician of architecture. From 1843 till the death Gornostayev worked in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. From 1849 he was a professor of the Academy of Arts. A.M. Gornostayev built churches in the Eparchy of Saint Petersburg: on Valaam Island, in the Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Hermitage. In the Staraya Ladoga Monastery of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker Gornostayev built the Church of St. John Chrysostom in 1872. In the Staraya Ladoga Dormition Convent he built the hospital block and the Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in 1860-1862. He built the estate church in Gromov's estate (1852; former Yikhvin uyezd) and others. Aleksey Maksimovich Gornostayev showed his worth as restorer too. He was buried in the Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Hermitage. Bertash, Aleksandr Vitalyevich
Gornostayev, Aleksey Maksimovich
Topographical landmarks/Valaam Island
Архитекторы-строители Санкт-Петербурга сер. XIX – нач. ХХ вв.: Справочник / Под общей ред. Б.М. Кирикова. СПб., 1996., С.106-107
Тыжненко Т.А. Алексей Горностаев // Зодчие Санкт-Петербурга. XIX – нач. XX в. СПб. 1998., С.325-340
Staraya Ladoga Dormition Convent, the
Staraya Ladoga Monastery of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker