Pavlo Alyoshin (16 February 1881 – 7 October 1961) was a Ukrainian Soviet architect and civil engineer. Throughout his career, he employed a wide variety of architectural styles, and helped to create the Pedagogical Museum, the incomplete city of "New Kharkiv", and the Kovalevsky mansion also known as the "Palace of Sighs". Born in Kyiv into a family of craftsmen, he first attended the Kyiv Drawing School before going to St. Petersburg to study at the Institute of Civil Engineers. There, as the best student in his class, he was allowed to study abroad and learn Western architecture. In 1904 he
Pavlo Alyoshin (16 February 1881 – 7 October 1961) was a Ukrainian Soviet architect and civil engineer. Throughout his career, he employed a wide variety of architectural styles, and helped to create the Pedagogical Museum, the incomplete city of "New Kharkiv", and the Kovalevsky mansion also known as the "Palace of Sighs". Born in Kyiv into a family of craftsmen, he first attended the Kyiv Drawing School before going to St. Petersburg to study at the Institute of Civil Engineers. There, as the best student in his class, he was allowed to study abroad and learn Western architecture. In 1904 he graduated from the school, and by 1906 was allowed to complete his first individual project which was a women's gymnasium. In 1909 he was given the task of designing the Pedagogical Museum, perhaps his most famous creation, which was completed in 1911 in an Empire style. In the late 1910s, he worked on a mansion for the Kovalevsky family and started experimenting in a Ukrainian national style and neo-baroque. In 1917 he graduated from the Imperial Academy of Arts, and then from the 1920s to 1930s worked as a chief architect of Murmansk, then Kyiv, and helped create the…
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Early life Alyoshin was born on 16 February 1881 in Kyiv, which was then part of the Kiev Governorate in the Russian Empire. His father was a carpenter who became part of an artel and was later a contractor. Alyoshin's grandfather was a serf craftsman who came from the Kursk Governorate and was also a deputy. He later noted that he "grew up on scaffolding." After finishing his schooling at a gymnasium, he entered the Kyiv Drawing School, from where he would graduate before going to St. Petersburg. He attended the school due to his results in drawing and painting from his gymnasium not being sufficient, and while in school also took drawing lessons from I. Seleznyov. In 1899 he moved to St. Petersburg and enrolled at the Institute of Civil Engineers in St. Petersburg. At the school he was finally allowed to create actual architectural projects, and studied under famous Imperial Russian professors I. Mikhailovsky and Alexander Krasovsky. As he was named the best student in his class, the institute sent him to study abroad and become acquainted with Western architecture in 1900 and 1902, including in Austria, France, Germany, England, Italy, and Greece. In 1904 he graduated from…
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Career In 1906 he started his first individual project in Kyiv, building the women's gymnasium for the city, which was finally completed in 1914. He also started working in 1907 on the building of the trade and industrial society in St. Petersburg, which was built using reinforced concrete and the newest finishing materials. In 1909 he completed his first version of the Pedagogical Museum named after Tsesarevych Oleksiy, which was funded by philanthropist Semyon Semenovich Mogilevtsev. In the First Men's Gymnasium, in July 1910, a land plot was allocated for the construction of the museum and construction started taking place, which was finally completed in August 1911. Alyoshin built the museum in an Empire style, which had fallen out of use since the Napoleonic period. After completing the museum, he was hired for the buildings on Olesya Honchara Street, an apartment building at St. Vynohradna, and the mansion of the Kovalevsky family. The mansion, specifically, was created in a style that was similar to Italian palaces in a tribute to the Romanesque style. In the late 1910s he started working in a Ukrainian national style, particularly of the Hetmanate era. This was best seen when in 1914 he built a…
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Personal life
He had multiple children, including Fedot and Olga, and had grandchildren named Vadym and Oksana, who all went into architecture.
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Death
He died on 7 October 1961 in Kyiv, where he had been working. He was buried at Lychakiv Cemetery.
