Experience in the construction of religious buildings in Russian cities in the late XIX - early XX centuries (on the example of the construction of the church of the Holy Prince Alexander Nevsky in Yalta)

Annotation

The article analyzes the experience of architectural construction in Russian cities at the end of the XIX - beginning of the XX century on the example of the construction of the church of the Holy Prince Alexander Nevsky in Yalta. The article examines the activities of the Yalta Church Building Committee and its interaction with the St. Petersburg Society of Architects based on the projects of N. P. Krasnov and P. K. Terebenev. The sources of the research were archival documents stored in the funds of the Central State Historical Archive of St. Petersburg, representing a number of little-known and unexplored aspects of the creation of the church of the Holy Prince Alexander Nevsky in Yalta. The authors focus on aspects of the history of architectural construction of the late XIX - early XX centuries, in particular, the construction program submitted to the St. Petersburg Society of Architects from the Yalta Church Building Committee, the developed temple projects, as well as explanatory notes that represent a previously unknown part of the heritage of N. P. Krasnov and P. K. Terebenev. The scientific and technical documentation on the construction of the temple in Yalta is evaluated from a historical point of view, and evidence is presented confirming the authorship of P. K. Terebenev when creating the temple of St. Prince Alexander Nevsky as the embodiment of the national Russian style in the architecture of the city under the patronage of Emperor Alexander III.

Keywords

• architecture
• construction
• russian style
• Alexander III
• N. P. Krasnov
• P. K. Terebenev
• Yalta
• St. Petersburg Society of Architects
• Yalta Church Building Committee
• church of the Holy Prince Alexander Nevsky
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Contribution of the authors

Kuznetsova O. N. – scientific management, work in museums, archives, justification of the purpose of the article, writing the draft, the consolidation of data, final conclusions; Kulik S. V. – research concept, processing and presentation of statistical data, source materials, follow-on revision of the text, final conclusions.

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