Osip Dmitrievich Startsev (Осип Дмитриевич Старцев) was a Russian architect who mastered both

Muscovite Baroque Naryshkin Baroque, also referred to as Moscow Baroque or Muscovite Baroque, is a particular style of Baroque architecture and decoration that was fashionable in Moscow from the late 17th century into the early 18th century. In the late 17th century ...

and

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idioms during the early part of

Peter the Great Peter I ( – ), most commonly known as Peter the Great,) or Pyotr Alekséyevich ( rus, Пётр Алексе́евич, p=ˈpʲɵtr ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ, , group=pron was a Russian monarch who ruled the Tsardom of Russia from t ...

's reign. His father Dmitry Startsev was the architect responsible for the completion of the Arkhangelsk Gostiny Dvor in the 1680s. As a young man, Ossip took part in the rebuilding campaigns in the

Moscow Kremlin The Kremlin ( rus, Московский Кремль, r=Moskovskiy Kreml', p=ˈmɐˈskofskʲɪj krʲemlʲ, t=Moscow Kremlin) is a fortified complex in the center of Moscow founded by the Rurik dynasty. It is the best known of the kremlins (R ...

and redesigned several '' prikazy'' offices. It was Startsev who gave the

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its familiar wide windows and built the 11-domed roof and cornice over the Terem Palace churches. His major buildings include the civic buildings in Moscow (notably the

Krutitsy Krutitsy Metochion (russian: Крути́цкое подворье), full name: Krutitsy Patriarchal Metochion (russian: Крутицкое Патриаршее подворье) is an operating ecclesiastical estate of Russian Orthodox Churc ...

''Teremok'' and the Simonov Monastery refectory) and the archaic-looking Baroque cathedrals in

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(the ''

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s'' of

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and Epiphany Monasteries). In the early 18th century Peter the Great sent him to design the fortress towns of

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and

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. He was also active in the reconstruction of

Smolensk Smolensk ( rus, Смоленск, p=smɐˈlʲensk, a=smolensk_ru.ogg) is a city and the administrative center of Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located on the Dnieper River, west-southwest of Moscow. First mentioned in 863, it is one of the oldest ...

. In 1714, Tsar Peter demanded stones already quarried to be brought from all parts of Russia to St. Petersburg, forbidding any building with stone outside the new capital under pain of punishment. Startsev is supposed to have resented the decision and taken monastic vows. His last work was the backward-looking Bolvanovka Church in

Taganka District Tagansky District (russian: Тага́нский райо́н) is a district of Central Administrative Okrug of the federal city of Moscow, Russia, located between the Moskva and Yauza Rivers near the mouth of the latter. Population: The dis ...

of Moscow.Старцевы
in the

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, 3rd ed.

References

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