Alexei Nikolayevich Beketov (russian: Алексей Николаевич Бекетов; 3 March 1862,

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— 23 November 1941,

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) was a Russian Imperial and later a

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architect, in the Classical style. He was an honorary Professor at the St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts from 1894.

Biography

Beketov was of Russian ancestry; on his father's side he came from a Russian noble family with roots from the Penza Governorate. His mother Elena Beketova was born in St. Petersburg. Alexei Beketov was the son of

Nikolay Beketov Nikolay Nikolayevich Beketov (russian: Николай Николаевич Бекетов; , Alferovka (now Beketovka), Penza Governorate, Russian Empire – , St. Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a Russian Imperial physical chemist and metallur ...

, a noted Professor of chemistry at the Imperial University of Kharkov. He studied at the local realschule and a private art school, operated by Maria Raevskaia-Ivanova. In 1882, he enrolled in the

Imperial Academy of Arts The Russian Academy of Arts, informally known as the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, was an art academy in Saint Petersburg, founded in 1757 by the founder of the Imperial Moscow University Ivan Shuvalov under the name ''Academy of the Thre ...

, where he studied with David Grimm and ; graduating in 1888 with a degree in architecture. During that same period, he worked with

Maximilian Messmacher Maximilian (von) Messmacher (russian: Максимилиан Егорович Месмахер, ''Maximilian Yegorovich Messmacher''; 1842–1906) was a Russian architect of German ancestry. He attended the School of Painting of St. Petersburg S ...

on several projects, including the palace of Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich. From 1890, he taught at the .T. F. Davidovich
"Архитектор А. Н. Бекетов. Жизнь и творчество"
(Life and Works), In: ''Academia. Architecture and Construction'', 2018 In 1894, he was awarded the title of "Academician" for his work on what is now known as the Kharkiv Korolenko State Scientific Library. He designed over one hundred buildings throughout the region, including approximately forty in Kharkhiv. Several large projects, including an opera house, were never realized due to

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and the

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. In addition to his architectural designs, he was an amateur artist. Many of his landscape paintings are in private collections.

Alexey Dushkin Alexey Nikolayevich Dushkin (24 December 1904 – 8 October 1977) was a Soviet architect, best known for his 1930s designs of the Kropotkinskaya and Mayakovskaya stations of the Moscow Metro. He worked primarily for subway and railroads and ...

, , and

Vasyl Krychevsky Vasyl Hryhorovych Krychevsky ( uk, Василь Григорович Кричевський; January 12, 1873 in Vorozhba village, now Lebedyn Raion – November 15, 1952, in Caracas, Venezuela) was a Ukrainian painter, architect, art scholar, gra ...

are some of his best-known students. He was married to Anna Alchevska (1868-1931), daughter of the industrialist,

Aleksey Alchevsky Aleksey Kirillovich Alchevsky (russian: Алексей Кириллович Алчевский, Ukrainian: Олексій Кирилович Алчевський, romanized: ''Oleksii Kyrylovych Alchevskyi''; 1835, Sumy, Russian Empire – 1901, ...

and his wife, Khrystyna, an advocate for national education. In 1939, he was named an . He died in 1941, during the German occupation, aged seventy-nine. Streets in Kharkiv and Salavat have been named after him. In 1995, a new subway station on the

Kharkiv Metro The Kharkiv Metro ( uk, Харківське метро or Харківський метрополітен) is the rapid transit system that serves the city of Kharkiv, the second largest city in Ukraine. The metro was the second in Ukraine (afte ...

was named the Arkhitektora Beketova. Two monuments have been dedicated to him; at the (2007), and at the

Kharkiv National Academy of Urban Economy Kharkiv National University of Urban Economy ( uk, Харківський національний університет міського господарства, ; before 2013 — ''academy'') is a Ukrainian university in Kharkiv, named aft ...

(2016). His dacha in Alushta is now a museum.

Selected buildings

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References

External links

a brief biography and list of buildings @ the Kharkiv website
"ДОМ-МУЗЕЙ АКАДЕМИКА АРХИТЕКТУРЫ А. Н. БЕКЕТОВА"
(The Beketov Museum) @ the Alushta website * Monument to Beketov© at the University of Construction and Architecture {{DEFAULTSORT:Beketov, Alexei 1862 births 1941 deaths Ukrainian architects Soviet architects Imperial Academy of Arts alumni People from Kharkiv Architects from the Russian Empire

Biography

Selected buildings

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Further reading

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