Alexey Shchusev

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Alexey Shchusev was a prominent Russian and Soviet architect known for blending traditional Russian styles with modernist principles in major state and religious buildings.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Russian architect
Soviet architect
architect
human
awardReceived Order of Lenin
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Stalin Prize
burialPlace Novodevichy Cemetery
countryOfCitizenship Russian Empire
Soviet Union
dateOfBirth 1873-10-08
dateOfDeath 1949-05-24
designed Moscow Kazansky railway station
surface form: Kazan Railway Station, Moscow

Komsomolskaya station (Koltsevaya line), Moscow Metro
Lenin Mausoleum
Marfo-Mariinsky Convent, Moscow
Narkomzem Building, Moscow
educatedAt Imperial Academy of Arts
Imperial Academy of Arts
surface form: Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts
familyName Shchusev
fieldOfWork architecture
restoration of architectural monuments
givenName Alexey
memberOf Academy of Architecture of the USSR
movement Constructivism
Russian Revival
Soviet avant-garde
name Alexey Shchusev self-linksurface differs
surface form: Alexey Viktorovich Shchusev
nativeLanguage Russian
notableFor blending traditional Russian architectural forms with modernist principles
notableWork Moscow Kazansky railway station
surface form: Kazan Railway Station, Moscow

Lenin Mausoleum
Marfo-Mariinsky Convent, Moscow
Moscow Metro Komsomolskaya station (Koltsevaya line) design
Narkomzem Building, Moscow
occupation architect
restorer
placeOfBirth Bessarabia
surface form: Bessarabia Governorate

Chișinău
surface form: Kishinev

Russian Empire
placeOfDeath Moscow
Russian SFSR
Soviet Union
positionHeld President of the Academy of Architecture of the USSR
religion Russian Orthodox Church
style Constructivist architecture
Neoclassical architecture
Russian Revival
surface form: Russian Revival architecture

Stalinist architecture
workedOn restoration of ancient Russian churches and monasteries

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Lenin Mausoleum architect Alexey Shchusev
Alexey Shchusev name Alexey Shchusev self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Alexey Viktorovich Shchusev
All-Russia Insurance Company building architect Alexey Shchusev
this entity surface form: Aleksey Shchusev