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55-473: The architect Nikolay Lvov , was commissioned by the Glebov-Stershenev to build the estate, which was constructed between 1787–1798 К. Butsi, А.Trofimov, V. Irwin, and F. Ruska worked on the design and construction of the estate. The architectural ensemble of the estate includes the manor's house and an oval-shaped colonnade connected to the side wings and a double dome above the central hall.

110-456: A Saint Nicholas icon and an Our Lady of the Sign icon, as well as several icons made by Vladimir Borovikovsky . At the moment, the church is open to the public. Since 2017, part of the manor buildings of the palace and park complex have been owned by "Ray Holding LLC," which has implemented a program to develop a rural settlement into a resort complex, which has historically been directly part of

165-582: A distinct form of nationalism of his age, "idealization and flattery of the folk"; Lvov himself wrote that one of his objectives was to impress "present-day philosophers" in patriotic virtues of the Russians. He created the Russian name for a folk song (народная песня), adopting Herder 's concept of Volkslieder . Lvov's preface to his collection of folk poems published in 1790 contains the first professional description of Russian polyphonic folk singing,

220-399: A feat once attempted by Vasili Bazhenov . Lvov produced a vast plan consisting of a three-part neoclassical palace core within a redesigned Gothic revival citadel, "an intimate royal villa in a park-like setting." His design was not as radical as Bazhenov's 1767 draft that was cancelled by Catherine at an early stage, but shared the same fate. After one year of preliminary work, the project

275-440: A knowledge later forgotten and resurrected in the 1870s. The book, containing one hundred songs, Collection of Russian Folk Songs with Their Tunes (Собрание народных русских песен с их голосами) was published at the expense of Her Majesty's Cabinet and was reissued in 1806 adding 53 new songs; vulgar or "antisocial" songs were excluded. The book was co-authored by Ivan Prach (or Jan Prač) who transcribed sheet music , and

330-420: A mature man parted with his affection to Western culture and became "sort of a slavophile avant la lettre ." He was the first to discover poetic qualities of Russian winter, previously overlooked or denied, and to turn it into a stylistic device . For him, winter became a manly nationalistic symbol of what makes Russians different from their Western and Southern neighbors. In the end, Lvov produced "perhaps

385-456: A mere formality, was also employed by the Collegium of Foreign Affairs as a diplomatic courier and extensively travelled to German principalities and Denmark . In July 1775, Lvov resigned both military and civil service in the rank of captain and returned to his parents' estate, but one year later returned to diplomatic service. This time, he travelled to London , Madrid , Paris and

440-675: A personal tour of Italy ( Livorno , Pisa , Florence , Bologna and Venice ). During his tour in Italy, he met with several influential people associated with the Russian court, including Count Demetrio Mocenigo in Pisa. In May 1783, Lvov transferred from Foreign Affairs to the Directorate of Post Offices, where he served under Alexander Bezborodko until 1797. Most of his achievements in arts and sciences took place alongside government service and clearly took precedence over it, so Lvov's career

495-518: A style that emerged decades after Lvov's death. The bell tower of the same monastery became Lvov's last known design; it was started after his death by Fyodor Ananyin and completed in 1811. In 1798, Lvov published the first volume of Russky Pallady , an adapted translation of Andrea Palladio 's I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura with Lvov's own lengthy comments. It was the second attempt to publish Palladio in Russian, after Prince Dolgorukov 's 1699 abstract that circulated only in handwritten copies;

550-615: A treatise on the coals from Donets Basin and Moscow Basin . He experimented with coal pyrolysis , proposed new uses for coal tar and sulphur , and wrote a reference book on heating and ventilation . Lvov designed the badges of the Order of St. Vladimir and the Order of St. Anna , translated works by Anacreon , Palladio , Petrarch , Sappho and the Saga of King Harald into Russian language , wrote libretto for opera and vaudeville , researched Russian chronicles and published one of

605-529: A two-volume treatise on heating and ventilation ( Русская Пиростатика / Russkaya Pyrostatica, 1793). Walls of Lvov's buildings contained elaborate heat exchanging ductwork that gently warmed up incoming outdoor air, heating and ventilating indoor space simultaneously. These ducts became his trademark and were used to identify Lvov's designs, notably the Trinity church. In the 1790s, Lvov privately experimented with adopting European rammed earth technology to

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660-525: Is 3 February (New Style, 16 February). The Head of the Imperial House of Russia always is Master of the imperial Order of Saint Anna. At first, the Order had but one class and was named the "Order of Anna". The statutes of the Order promulgated in 1735 established as the principal insignia a red- enameled gold cross, with an image of Saint Anne imposed upon the centre of the cross; the reverse bore

715-480: Is both virtuoso and composer. His talent as a violinist is remarkable, and his latest work, Ondine , contains beauties of the highest order..." Aleksey Lvov also ventured into ethnography, focusing on the historical liturgical singing, and even attempted to enforce, in vain, his vision of historical truth in church music. Order of St. Anna The Imperial Order of Saint Anna ( Russian : Орден Святой Анны ; also "Order of Saint Anne" or "Order of Saint Ann")

770-712: Is thus known in the English world as Lvov-Prach collection , shortly LPC . One of the songs from the LPC, Glory to the Sun , has been used by Ludwig van Beethoven in the Second Razumovsky Quartet , by Modest Mussorgsky in Boris Godunov and by other composers. Verses of yet another song were previously published by Alexander Sumarokov ; its LPC version remained a staple of household music throughout

825-790: The Netherlands ; in Paris, Lvov indulged in frequent theatre going and made good acquaintance with poet Ivan Khemnitser and the Bakunin family. Back in Saint Petersburg, Lvov created a private theatre based in the Bakunin house and played lead parts in plays by Jean-François Regnard , Antonio Sacchini and, probably, Yakov Knyazhnin . He led otherwise a modest lifestyle of a salaried clerk, living at his friends' houses, and could not afford renting his own until May 1779, when his pay

880-590: The Temple of Vesta ; the pyramidal bell tower has no analogues, even remote, in Russian architecture and was a forerunner to the revival of Ancient Egyptian architecture associated with Empire style of the Alexander I period. In the same period, Lvov designed the cathedral of Borisoglebsky Monastery in Torzhok , a purely Neoclassical five-domed edifice that also contained hints of Russo-Byzantine architecture ,

935-414: The high culture with worthy models for emulation." Lvov's own verses contain one of the first literary imitations of a folk song, set to the metre of traditional wedding chants later known as Koltsov's metre , a precursor of one of the commonest poetic genres in 19th-century Russian poetry and a testimony to an emerging new status of folk art and the very concept of a nation . He composed one of

990-723: The 19th century and was adopted by Mikhail Glinka , Alexander Borodin and Fernando Sor although later critics branded it "fake folk". Margarita Mazo, on the contrary, wrote that LPC material is closer to modern understanding of folk music than scientific, surgical transcriptions of the end of the 19th century, and that the creativity of Lvov and Pratsch "influenced the folk tradition itself" through numerous songbooks that circulated all over Russia. A list of Lvov's architectural works compiled by Tatarinov contains 87 buildings and country estates, some unconditionally attested through archive evidence, others attributed with different degrees of confidence. The first work on this list, interiors of

1045-474: The Directorate of Post Offices; the block-sized compound, completed in 1789, became his largest project in Saint Petersburg as well as his home: after completion Lvov and his family moved into an apartment on the northern side of the block. The building, rebuilt by Yegor Sokolov in the 19th century and Alberto Cavos in the 1850s, stands to date. Bezborodko, chief of the Directorate, remained Lvov's patron and provided him private and public commissions (including

1100-535: The Imperial House of Russia. Recipients of the Order of St. Andrew (K.A.) (including grand dukes, who received the order at baptism, and princes of the Imperial blood, who received it at their majority) simultaneously received the first class of the Order of Saint Anna. The Emperor himself was the hereditary grand master of the Order. The motto of the Order is "Amantibus Justitiam, Pietatem, Fidem" ("To those who love justice, piety, and fidelity"). Its festival day

1155-471: The Neva Gate of Peter and Paul Fortress in Saint Petersburg; the project materialized in 1784–1787 and included complete refit of decrepit fortress walls with granite cladding and construction of granite pier in place of an old wooden one. The Tuscan portal of the Neva Gate is ranked among his best, if not the best, architectural works. In 1783, Lvov designed the new building for his new employer,

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1210-781: The Order to several courtiers. On 15 April 1797, his own son, Emperor Paul I of Russia , established the Order as part of the Imperial Russian system of honours and divided it into three classes, renaming it the "Order of Saint Anna". Emperor Alexander I added a fourth class in 1815. The title of Chekhov 's well-known story Anna on the Neck refers both to the Order and to the heroine. In Chapter IV of Crime and Punishment , Raskolnikov guesses that Luzhin must have, "...the Anna in his buttonhole and that he puts it on when he goes to dine with contractors or merchants." The medal ribbon

1265-672: The Priory, built literally of dirt and dust, was rated to stand for 25 years only. Contrary to expectations, it survived over 200 years including neglect of the Soviet period and German attempts to destroy it during World War II. The death of Lvov's benefactor Alexander Bezborodko in April 1799 slowed down Lvov's projects; Lvov himself fell ill in September 1800 and barely recovered by April 1801. In July 1801, Lvov wrote that he "returned from

1320-498: The Romanov Family Association. Membership of the Order was awarded for a distinguished career in civil service or for valour and distinguished service in the military. The Order of Saint Anna entitled recipients of the first class to hereditary nobility, and recipients of lower classes to personal nobility. For military recipients, it was awarded with swords. It is now usually awarded for meritorious service to

1375-520: The actions of a single individual, Lvov", William Craft Brumfield called Lvov "one of the greatest neoclassical architects produced in the reign of Catherine the Great ... neoclassical aesthetics at its purest". Nikolay Lvov was born in an impoverished country estate 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) from Torzhok . Sources published before 2001 state date of birth March 4, 1751; in 2001, Galina Dmitrieva published newly found church records showing that Lvov

1430-553: The countryside, especially his native Tver Governorate . He redesigned the external appearance of Peter and Paul Fortress and created an unprecedented Trinity Church combining a Roman rotunda with one-of-a-kind pyramidal bell tower. He adapted rammed earth technology to the environment of Northern Russia and used it in his extant Priory Palace in Gatchina ; Lvov's construction school, established in 1797, trained over 800 craftsmen. He managed geological surveys and published

1485-525: The empress. Catherine commissioned Lvov the church of Saint Joseph in Mogilev to commemorate the event, the project earned him honorary membership at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1786). The neoclassical rotunda church was built under his supervision until 1798. It became a cathedral in 1802, was converted to a museum in 1934 and demolished in 1937. Also in 1780, Lvov proposed redesign of

1540-573: The end of 1797, Paul commissioned Lvov to design and build the Priory Palace in Gatchina Park—the largest rammed earth project ever built in Russia. It also used another of Lvov's inventions, a composite roofing material made by impregnating cardboard sheets with coal tar and mineral powders. Paul's manager, Count Prozorovsky, forced Lvov to build the palace literally in a swamp, and

1595-513: The environment of Northern Russia. Whether he imported the technology himself or relied on Menelaws, the novelty seemed promising. In August 1797, he obtained Paul's consent and state financing to set up a school training local workers in new technology, irrigation and road construction. The main school was located in Lvov's own estate, and a branch in Moscow; in six years, it trained 815 men. In

1650-506: The estate. Currently, a one-story building is being renovated; this is the future business center of Ray Holding. Since 2022, the management of the estate has been carried out by the Federal State Budgetary Institution of Culture "All-Russian Historical and Ethnographic Museum." Nikolay Lvov Nikolay Aleksandrovich Lvov ( Russian : Николай Александрович Львов ; May 4, 1753 – December 21, 1803)

1705-610: The extant Bezborodko Dacha in Saint Petersburg) until his death in 1799. Another high-ranking client, prince Vyazemsky, director of state porcelain factories, commissioned a suburban estate (now within the limits of Saint Petersburg) including Lvov's most unusual work, the Trinity Church in Aleksandrovskoe also known as Kulich and Paskha (1785–1787). The main rotunda was probably influenced by

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1760-540: The facade on the park side aligns with the river; the park includes a pond with an man-made island and pathways. Most of the pavilions and gazebos from the manor park have been lost. The heart of the estate is the Church of Our Lady of the Sign , built by Ivan Glebov  [ ru ] . Before the revolution of 1917, the church housed the family icons of the Glebov Family  [ ru ] which included

1815-713: The fame of Princes of Lvov passed to a different branch of the family. Lvov's cousin Fyodor Petrovich Lvov (1766–1836), a composer, headed the Imperial Capella in Saint Petersburg. Fyodor's son Aleksey Fyodorovich Lvov (1799–1870) followed in his father's footsteps and inherited his chair at the Imperial Chapel, but is better known as the author of the imperial Russian national anthem God Save The Tsar! (Bozhe, tsarya khrani). Hector Berlioz called Aleksey Lvov "an eminent musician, who

1870-805: The find of commercial quality coal "not inferior to that from Newcastle " in Borovichi . Menelaws concurrently managed Lvov's construction projects in Torzhok and other places, raising suspicion that coal survey was merely an excuse for appropriating the Scotsman. Prospecting for coal continued for years, commercial coal mining in Borovichi commenced only 11 years later, after Paul I granted Lvov state support in his business. Lvov arranged shipment of coal by barges to Saint Petersburg, but his coal did not sell well. Unaware of spontaneous combustion hazard,

1925-460: The first complete and unabridged Palladio was not published until 1938. The work took eight years: Lvov personally engraved in copper over 200 copies of original engravings from the 1616 Venetian edition, the earliest he could acquire. Lvov wished "Palladio's taste to prosper in my country; French twists and English refinement already have plenty of imitators" and particularly criticized French adaptations of Palladianism . Paul I, who ascended to

1980-426: The first literary stories about Dobrynya Nikitich ; unlike his contemporary James Macpherson , he never attempted to disguise it as a true folk bylina . Politically, Lvov was an "active royalist" faithful to Catherine and later Paul I , at the same time he was also loyal to his fraternity; he secured a diplomatic appointment to Khemnitzer, and tried to prevent the 1790 trial of Alexander Radishchev . Lvov as

2035-607: The first versions of the bylina of Dobrynya Nikitich . In 1783, he became one of the first 36 members of the Russian Academy . In 1931, Vladislav Khodasevich called Lvov "an intelligent and subtle connoisseur of everything ... who was not destined to do anything remarkable." Later researchers appreciated Lvov's contribution: Richard Taruskin considered Lvov's collection of folk songs "the greatest and most culturally significant of Russian folk collections", Philip Bohlman credited discovery of Russian folk art "all from

2090-756: The foundations for the Stone of Tmutarakan in Taman and wrote a description of mineral springs of Mount Beshtau district. Spa treatment did not help, and he died on the way back, in Moscow. He was buried in a rotunda mausoleum in his native Cherenchitsy that he designed in 1784 and built in the 1790s. Maria died in 1807; their three daughters (Elizaveta, Vera and Praskovya, 14 to 18 years of age in 1807) were raised by Gavrila and Darya Derzhavin. In 1809–1811 Elizaveta Lvova acted as Derzhavin's secretary and recorded his spoken memoirs. Lvov's two sons joined imperial service earlier and were not known for anything notable;

2145-485: The house for Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg , the bride of Paul I, was commissioned by Catherine in the summer of 1776. However, absolute majority of Lvov's works were built for private clients: Bezborodko , Derzhavin , Olenin ( Utkina Dacha ), Kochubey , the Vorontsov and Vyazemsky families in the 1780s. In 1780, shortly after the meeting of Catherine and Joseph II in Mogilev , Bezborodko introduced Lvov to

2200-519: The initials "A.I.P.F." (for "Anna Imperatoris Petri Filia": "Anna, Emperor Peter's daughter" in Latin). The same letters also abbreviate the Latin motto (as the letter "J" did not exist in Latin, "Iustitiam" was the original spelling of the word now rendered "Justitiam"). In 1742, Karl Peter Ulrich , Duke Karl Friedrich's son, was declared the Russian heir apparent . After arriving in Russia, he presented

2255-566: The most articulate early image of the exuberant Russian soul, and the most explicitly contemptuous of the West" predating nationalist writing by Nikolai Gogol . Lvov collaborated with composer Yevstigney Fomin , "by far and away the ablest native-born Russian composer of his period" on a folk singspiel The Coachmen ( Russian : Ямщики на подставе , 1787), "the highest at which Russian opera before Glinka ever aimed" and "astonishingly faithful to those of genuine oral polyphony." The Coachmen

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2310-592: The other world on crutches " but managed to get through to the new emperor, Alexander I, and presented his album on rammed earth construction. The meeting paid back in October 1802, when Alexander granted Lvov the rank of privy councilor and appointed him to the Expedition of State Household. Lvov's health deteriorated again and he left Saint Petersburg for the Caucasus . On his way south, he designed and built

2365-612: The other, considered Menelaws to be Lvov's mentor in design and construction management and suggested that Lvov's rammed earth technology was actually developed by Menelaws while Lvov provided a respectable front and palace connections. The first task assigned to Menelaws was something different: searching for coal deposits in Lvov's native Tver Governorate. Lvov was concerned about Russia's dependence on imported British coals and deforestation caused by charcoal extraction, and gained support of Bezborodko and Vorontsov to survey for fossil coals. In August 1786, Lvov and Menelaws announced

2420-454: The poetic self-determination of their elder and better-known friend Derzhavin whose literary career started in 1779. The group also included painters ( Dmitry Levitzky , Vladimir Borovikovsky ), musicians ( Yevstigney Fomin and probably Dmitry Bortniansky ), engravers and publishers; Marina Ritsarev called the Lvov ring "another Russian Academy , albeit an informal one". Lvov, "a matchless connoisseur for his age" provided "artists of

2475-651: The point where the father reluctantly approved the marriage; only then the secret ceremony of 1780 became public. The affair between Lvov and Maria Dyakova became a subject of romance novel fiction (the most recent paperback was issued in 2008). In April 1781, Lvov was appointed secretary to the Russian Embassy in Dresden , Kingdom of Saxony , but "her majesty's will" retained him at Saint Petersburg court. Instead of Dresden, he left for Warsaw and Vienna on government business and managed to carve out time for

2530-583: The revolution by Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich, Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich, and Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna. Today, the Russian Imperial Order of St. Anna, awarded by Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna is recognized as an order of chivalry by the privately operated ICOC as a continuation of the pre-Revolutionary order, and has been approved for wear with military uniform by the Russian Federation, but not by some members of

2585-521: The shippers dumped incoming coal in one lump on the bank of the Neva River ; the whole enterprise ended in a spectacular fire. Lvov's interest in fossil coal did not fade completely until at least 1800 when he sent Menelaws to recruit workers and purchase machinery in England . Lvov, concerned with the inefficiency of existing heating ovens , designed his own heating system and advertised it through

2640-630: The throne in November 1796, dismissed most of his mother's statesmen but retained Bezborodko in charge of foreign affairs. Paul extended the favor to Lvov and granted him state support and new commissions, although nowhere as significant or lucrative as those awarded to Vincenzo Brenna (Khodasevich: "Even under new order Lvov was swimming along like a fish in water" ). In an ironic twist of fortune, in April 1797, Paul I dispatched Lvov to Moscow to redesign Bartolomeo Rastrelli 's modest Grand Kremlin Palace ,

2695-453: Was a Holstein ducal and then Russian imperial order of chivalry . It was established by Karl Friedrich, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp , on 14 February 1735, in honour of his wife Anna Petrovna , daughter of Peter the Great of Russia. Originally, the Order of Saint Anna was a dynastic order of knighthood ; but between 1797 and 1917 it had dual status as a dynastic order and as a state order. The Order of St. Anna continued to be awarded after

2750-701: Was a Russian artist of the Age of Enlightenment . Lvov, an amateur of noble lineage, was a polymath who contributed to geology , history , graphic arts and poetry , but is known primarily as an architect and ethnographer , compiler of the first significant collection of Russian folk songs (the Lvov-Prach collection). Lvov's architecture represented the second, "strict" generation of neoclassicism stylistically close to Giacomo Quarenghi . Lvov worked in Saint Petersburg but his best works survived in

2805-422: Was actually born May 4, 1753. In line with tradition, his parents "enrolled" Nikolay into Preobrazhensky Lifeguard regiment in 1759. Ten years later, Nikolay arrived in Saint Petersburg and joined the regiment. In 1770–1771, he attended training courses at Izmaylovsky Regiment ; these courses were the only instance of formal education in his life. Until 1775, Lvov, along with his military service that became

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2860-549: Was canceled; all alterations to existing Kremlin buildings done by Lvov were later absorbed into extant Grand Kremlin Palace, designed by Konstantin Thon . In 1785, Lvov acquired a helpful associate Adam Menelaws , one of 73 Scottish craftsmen recruited by Charles Cameron , and the future house architect of Nicholas I . Interaction and influence between Lvov and Menelaws are disputed. Andreyev, on one extreme, considered Menelaws completely dependent on Lvov's talent; Kuznetsov, on

2915-613: Was not as rapid as that of Gavrila Derzhavin . Contrary to neoclassical mainstream of his age, Lvov as a poet belonged to emerging sentimentalism and pioneered exploration of "spontaneous, great-hearted sincerity in the Russian peasant" that defined yet unexplored national character. He belonged to a close-knit ring of fellow poets; its key members, Lvov, Derzhavin and Vasily Kapnist , were bonded by their marriages to three Dyakova sisters. Kapnist married Alexandra Dyakova in 1781; Derzhavin married Yekaterina Dyakova in 1795, his second marriage. Lvov, Kapnist and Ivan Khemnitser shaped

2970-470: Was raised to 700 roubles per annum. Around 1778 or 1779, Lvov developed relationship with Maria Dyakova (her sister Alexandra was engaged to Vasily Kapnist ). Maria's father, an influential statesman, distrusted Lvov at first sight and ruled out any marriage proposals. She and Lvov were secretly married in a church in Saint Petersburg on November 8, 1780. Maria still lived in her parents' house for three more years. By 1783, Lvov's social standing improved to

3025-576: Was written in 1786 as a one-time event to mark Catherine's visit to Tambov (a new town managed by Lvov's buddy Derzhavin) and contained the first instance of A Birch Stood in the Field ( Russian : Во поле берёзка стояла ) recorded and performed professionally. The song was later used by Mily Balakirev in the Overture on Russian Themes and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in the finale of his Fourth Symphony . Lvov's ethnographic activities were marked by

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