Andrey Ivanovich Melensky (; 1766–1833) was a Russian Imperial Neoclassical

architect An architect is a person who plans, designs, and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...

from

Moscow Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents with ...

М. М. Жербин. Украинские и зарубежные строители: краткий биографический справочник. Киевский нац. университет строительства и архитектуры, 2001. Стр. 78. who was appointed the city architect of

Kiev Kyiv, also Kiev, is the capital and most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city of Ukraine. Located in the north-central part of the country, it straddles both sides of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2022, its population was 2, ...

(now Kyiv, Ukraine) in 1799, and held the post for some thirty years. Melensky began his career as an assistant to

Matvey Kazakov Matvey Fyodorovich Kazakov (; 1738 – 7 November 1812) was a Russian Neoclassicism, Neoclassical architect. Kazakov was one of the most influential Muscovite architects during the reign of Catherine II of Russia, Catherine II, completing numerou ...

, Vasily Bazhenov, and

Giacomo Quarenghi Giacomo Quarenghi (; , ; 20 or 21 September 1744) was an Italian architect who was the foremost and most prolific practitioner of neoclassical architecture in Imperial Russia, particularly in Saint Petersburg. He brought into vogue an original mo ...

and was involved in the construction of the

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on the

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. He was put in charge of the reconstruction of

Podil Podil ( ) or Podol ( ), also known in English as the Lower City,Ivankin, H., Vortman, D. Podil (ПОДІЛ)'. Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine. is a historic neighborhood in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. It is located on a floodplain terrace ...

after the great 1811 fire, and succeeded in remodeling the district in a provincial

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. Melensky was the first architect to be given the position of City Architect of Kiev.

Major commissions

* Contracts House * Magdeburg Rights Column * Church of St. Nicholas, Podil * Nativity Church, Podil * Holy Cross Church, Podil *

Askold Grave Church The Church of St. Nicholas is a Neoclassical style rotunda in the Askold's Grave park of Kyiv, Ukraine. This former Russian Orthodox church was designed in 1809 by the Moscow-born architect Andrey Melensky and was underwritten by Samuil Meshc ...

* Resurrection Church at the Florivsky Convent * Reconstruction of the Podil Gostiny Dvor * Old building of the city theatre * Old House of Nobility * Pechersk wooden synagogue File:Magdeburg Right Column (Kiev).jpg, Magdeburg Rights Column File:Kiev 035.jpg, Nativity Church File:IMG 2228-1.JPG,

Askold's Grave Askold's Grave () is a historical park on the steep right bank of the Dnipro River in Kyiv between Mariinskyi Park and the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra complex. The park was created by the Soviets in the mid-1930s in place of an old graveyard around t ...

Church File:Contracts House (Kiev).jpg, The Contract House File:Hostynyi Dvir Podil.jpg, Gostiny Dvor

References

Architects from Kyiv Russian neoclassical architects History of Kyiv Architects from Moscow 1766 births 1833 deaths {{Russia-architect-stub