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Peter Vaulin
Peter Kuzmich Vaulin (1870-1943) was a Russian ceramics artist active in the first half of the twentieth century He originally worked in ceramic workshop of Savva Ivanovich Mamontov in the Abramtsevo Colony near Moscow from 1890 to 1904. Then in 1906 set up an industrial workshop in Kikerino, Volosovsky District, Leningrad Oblast in 1906. Following the Russian Revolution he was appointed commissioner of Lomonosov Porcelain Works in 1918 whilst at the same time being the technical director of Gorn Works, Kikerino, until 1930. He acted as adviser of Proletarian Porcelain Works from 1930. His major works include: * the decorative portal of the Institute of Experimental Medicine's library (1911–13) * a panel on the front of the Zakharov family's apartment house (17 Klinsky Avenue) (1912–13) * the portal and dome facing of the Saint Petersburg Mosque, (1910–17) He was a chemical engineer and wrote works on ceramics technology. He also taught at the Myrhorod Art and Design Scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Petersburg Mosque
The Saint Petersburg Mosque (russian: Санкт-Петербу́ргская мече́ть), when opened in 1913, was the largest mosque in Europe outside Turkey, its minarets 49 meters in height and the dome is 39 meters high. The mosque is situated in downtown St Petersburg. It can accommodate up to five thousand worshippers. The founding stone was laid in 1910 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the reign of Abdul Ahat Khan in Bukhara. By that time, the Muslim community of the Russian then-capital exceeded 8,000 people. The projected structure was capable of accommodating most of them. The architect Nikolai Vasilyev patterned the mosque after Gur-e-Amir, the tomb of Tamerlane in Samarkand. Its construction was completed by 1921. Worshippers are separated by gender during a worship service; females worship on the upper floor, while the males worship on the ground floor. The Mosque was closed to worshippers from 1940 to 1956. History In 1882, Selim-Giray Tevkelev who in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Chemical Engineers
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national republics; in practice, both its government and its economy were highly centralized until its final years. It was a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with the city of Moscow serving as its capital as well as that of its largest and most populous republic: the Russian SFSR. Other major cities included Leningrad (Russian SFSR), Kiev (Ukrainian SSR), Minsk (Byelorussian SSR), Tashkent (Uzbek SSR), Alma-Ata (Kazakh SSR), and Novosibirsk (Russian SFSR). It was the largest country in the world, covering over and spanning eleven time zones. The country's roots lay in the October Revolution of 1917, when the Bolsheviks, under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Russian Provisional Government that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |