Alfred Parland

Alfred Alexandrovich Parland (Russian Альфред Александрович Парланд, born December 12, 1842 in Saint Petersburg, † 1919 in Petrograd ) was a Russian architect. He planned include the construction of the Church of the Resurrection in St. Petersburg.

Life

Parland came from a German - Baltic- Scottish family that was in the service of the Tsar since around 1800 at the Peterhof Palace. First he learned the St. Petersburg 4 school, then at the Stuttgart Polytechnic School and studied in 1862 at the Russian Academy of Arts. During his training he was awarded for his drawings and architectures with five medals.

After completion of academic study in 1871 he received for the competition design of a dome in the Orthodox cemetery the Great Gold Medal and the right to travel in "foreign country" in the form of a grant from the Academy, but in the construction of the Church of the Resurrection of Christ the Trinity- hermitage were delayed near Petersburg. The construction of this temple in the Byzantine style was given to the young builder for his own project design after graduating from the academy in order.

After he was finally able to go on trips abroad to Parland visited Italy and other European countries to study architecture monuments. For the plans and drawings created during the journey him the title of Member of the Russian Academy of Arts was conferred upon his return to St. Petersburg in 1880 and 1892, he was appointed professor at the Academy of Art. In the next decade Parland lectured on the architecture of ancient Greece and Rome.

Works

Besides the above-mentioned Trinity hermitage church construction projects Parlands following are worth mentioning:

• Church of Our Lady, donated by NI Bobrikov in the government of Novgorod
• Church of St. Theodora, donated by Rakejew in the government of Smolensk
• Church of Mary into heaven in Opochka in the province of Pskov
• Basic conversion of Znamensky Church in the old Peterhof

In St. Petersburg he created the architectural ensemble of the Church of the Resurrection in a uniform style, the enclosure of the Mikhailov - garden (1903-1907), the chapel, the sacristy and the residential wing of the Church ( 1906-1907 ). Furthermore Parland designed a villa in the Kuibyshev Street, Number 25 (1874 ). He also planned the construction of the grave monuments of:

• E. Parland on the Smolensk Lutheran Cemetery (1870 )
• WN Hitrowo on the St. Nicholas Cemetery (1915 )

Church of the Resurrection

Alfred Parland created in the years 1883-1907 a religious building in the Old Russian style whose model was the St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow. After templates Russian painter Vasnetsov, Nesterov and Rjabuschkin mosaics were created in the outer and especially inner design of the structure, and covers a total area of ​​400 m2. The plan of the church forms the shape of a cross with a bell tower on the west side of the building. Parland had modern engineering information flows into the building. For concrete foundations were poured and not the usual stone -sand foundations and wooden poles used. A constant temperature in the interior was facilitated by heating.