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Entries / V.I. Neelov, I.V. Neelov, P.V. Neelov, architects

V.I. Neelov, I.V. Neelov, P.V. Neelov, architects


Categories / Architecture/Personalia
Categories / Tsarskoe Selo and town of Pushkin. The digital chronological reference book/Pushkin personality

NEELOV family, a family of architects, representatives of early Neoclassicism and Romanticism. Vasily Ivanovich (1722-82), apprentice of S.I. Chevakinsky and M.G. Zemtsov; from 1744, worked with them and F.B. Rastrelli at the Building Bureau in Tsarskoe Selo. From 1760, architect with the rank of Second Major. Impressed by English park landscaping, during his visit in 1770, designed the landscape part with romantic pavilions of Ekaterininsky Park: the Pyramid Pavilion (1770-71), the Neo-Gothic Admiralty and the Hermitage Kitchen (1774-76), the Chinese Small and Grand Caprices (1770-74, in collaboration with I. Gerard), the Marble (Palladium or Siberian) Bridge in the spirit of Palladio (1772-74). His sons, Ilya Vasilievich (1745-93), graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts (1770), following his study trip to Italy, where he was elected a member of the Bologna Academy, worked with his father in Tsarskoe Selo, as C. Cameron's assistant (from 1780); designed the Upper Bath and the Lower Bath Pavilions (late 1770s) and the Grand Ducal Wing of the Great Palace (1788-92, later Lyceum) emulating early Neoclassicism, the pseudo-gothic Babolovsky Palace and other. Author of the landscape part of Alexandrovsky Park; Peter Vasilievich (1749-1846), apprenticed to his father and J.-B.Vallin de la Mothe. In 1770-75, studied landscape architecture in England. From 1794, worked in Tsarskoe Selo, completing the existing park ensemble. Designed the Evening Hall (1796, subsequently rebuilt by L. Rusca).

Reference: Васильев Б. Л. Архитекторы Нееловы // Зодчие Санкт-Петербурга, XVIII век. СПб., 1997. С. 879-900.

T. A. Slavina.

Persons
Cameron Charles
Chevakinsky Savva Ivanovich
Neelov Ilya Vasilievich
Neelov Peter Vasilievich
Neelov Vasily Ivanovich
Rastrelli Francesco de
Rusca Luigi (Aloisy Ivanovich)
the Neelovs
Vallin de la Mothe Jean Baptiste Michel
Zemtsov Mikhail Grigorievich

Bibliographies
Памятники архитектуры пригородов Ленинграда / А. Н. Петров и др. Л., 1983
Иконников А. В. Историзм в архитектуре. М., 1997
Васильев Б. Л. Архитекторы Нееловы // Зодчие Санкт-Петербурга, XVIII век. СПб., 1997

The subject Index
Academy of Arts
Academy of Arts
Catherine Palace (Town of Pushkin)