Evgenia Ivanovna Kirichenko (; 5 January 1931 – 1 July 2021) was a Russian historian of architecture and art. She was an honorary member of the

Russian Academy of Arts Russian Academy of Arts (RAA / rus. РАХ, Росси́йская акаде́мия худо́жеств) is the State scientific Institution of Russian Federation, eligible heir to the USSR Academy of Arts. A founder of RAA is the Governmen ...

and was a recipient of the

State Prize of the Russian Federation The State Prize of the Russian Federation, officially translated in Russia as Russian Federation National Award, is a state honorary prize established in 1992 following the breakup of the Soviet Union. In 2004 the rules for selection of laureates ...

Biography

Kirichenko was born into a family of civil engineers from

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. Her father, Ivan, received the Stalin State Prize for his metalwork. During her childhood, she suffered through the

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and starvation. In 1953, she began studying art at

Moscow State University Moscow State University (MSU), officially M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University,. is a public university, public research university in Moscow, Russia. The university includes 15 research institutes, 43 faculties, more than 300 departments, a ...

. She earned a degree in architecture in 1964, a doctorate in history in 1990, and received the State Prize of the Russian Federation in 1998. Kirichenko died in Moscow on 1 July 2021 at the age of 90.

Work

After presenting a paper on architecture in the

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from the 18th and 19th centuries, she began research on architecture in Spain, Switzerland, Canada, Portugal, the Balkans, Latin America, and elsewhere. In 1978, she published a monogram titled "Russian Architecture from the 1830s to the 1910s", which enjoyed great success. She wrote six books and 30 papers on

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, and was well known by the scientific community for her research on the restoration of the

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in Moscow. She received a diploma from the

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for her English-language version of the book ''The Russian Style''.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kirichenko, Evgenia 1931 births 2021 deaths Soviet historians 20th-century Russian historians Russian people of Ukrainian descent Moscow State University alumni Writers from Kharkiv Members of the Imperial Academy of Arts State Prize of the Russian Federation laureates