Ivan Pavlovich Ropet (pseudonym of Ivan Nikolaevich Petrov, 1845,

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– 1908) was an architect widely regarded as the originator of the

Russian Revival The Russian Revival style (historiographical names are: ''Russian style'', russian: русский стиль, ''Pseudo-Russian style'', russian: псевдорусский стиль, ''Neo-Russian style'', russian: нео-русский стил ...

in architecture, which is sometimes called the ''Ropet Style'' after him. His work was hailed by

Vladimir Stasov Vladimir Vasilievich Stasov (also Stassov; rus, Влади́мир Васи́льевич Ста́сов; 14 January Adoption_of_the_Gregorian_calendar#Adoption_in_Eastern_Europe.html" ;"title="/nowiki> O.S._2_January.html" ;"title="Adoption of ...

as "the future of our architecture".

Biography

Raised in the family of his uncle, Ropet studied at the

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under Alexey Gornostaev, pioneer of

and a master of

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design. Together with

Viktor Hartmann Viktor Alexandrovich Hartmann (Russian: Ви́ктор Алекса́ндрович Га́ртман; 5 May 1834, Saint Petersburg – 4 August 1873, Kireyevo near Moscow) was a Russian architect and painter. He was associated with the Abramt ...

, Ropet aspired to revive a truly national style of architecture, based primarily on ornate wooden huts of rural Russia. Basically, Ropet's circle propagated the same theories of the romantic nationalism as The Five did in regard to Russian music. Between 1874 and 1880, they brought out a series of albums of ''Russian Architecture Motifs'' which made their work known throughout Russia. Most of his works were in timber; one of the few still standing is the bath at Abramtsevo. Ropet made use of the Victorian craze for

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s to propagate his ideas abroad. He designed the Russian pavilions at the World's Fairs in

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(1878) and

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(1893). In Russia, he was responsible for the influential polychrome pavilions at the Polytechnic Exposition of 1872 in

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and the

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Fair of 1896. Among the more permanent works ascribed to Ropet are the Bassin Apartment House in

St. Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

and the Russian Embassy in

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Works

File:Ropet.jpg, Ropet's design of Russia's pavilion at the 1878 World Fair in Paris File:Abramtsevo Estate in Jan2013 img07.jpg, Teremok ( Abramtsevo Colony)

References

Literature

External links

Article in the Krugosvet Encyclopedia
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