Painting view of the palace embankment from the Peter and Paul Fortress by Fedor Alekseev. Palace embankment: description, history, excursions, exact address View of the palace embankment from the Peter and Paul Fortress 1794
View of the Palace Embankment from the Peter and Paul Fortress
1794. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
From the corner of the Peter and Paul Fortress, against the background of the huge cold northern sky and the wide mirror surface of the deep Neva, a majestic panorama of the Palace Embankment of St. Petersburg opens. On the right you can see the Marble Palace, then the Baryatinsky House and the Ribas Palace; The panorama is closed by the lattice of the Summer Garden. Clear poetry, harmony and noble restraint of feeling permeate the entire artistic fabric of this landscape. “Look, what unity! – wrote the poet K. Batyushkov about the embankments of St. Petersburg. – How all the parts correspond to the whole! What beauty of the buildings, what taste, and, in general, what variety that comes from mixing water with buildings.”
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Fyodor Yakovlevich Alekseev can rightfully be considered creator of the city landscape in Russian painting. Having mastered in Italy all the secrets of the craftsmanship of his famous contemporaries, the Venetian landscape painters - Canaletto, Belotto and Guardi, the young artist returned to his homeland and was fascinated by the austere and slender beauty of St. Petersburg. He was able to feel the scale of the capital on the Neva, and this gave his canvases a special solemnity and elation.
“Portrait of the artist and teacher of the Academy of Arts Fyodor Yakovlevich Alekseev.” Terebenev M.I. 1820
The dim northern light, the high pale sky, and the humidity of the air determined the exquisite silvery-blue palette of his best landscapes. But even among his masterfully executed paintings, the landscape of the Palace Embankment from the Peter and Paul Fortress stands out for its subtlety and poetry, which does not interfere with the documentary accuracy in the depiction of architecture.
Behind the wide mirror of the deep Neva, along which boats and rafts silently glide, magnificent palaces and the continuing fence of the Summer Garden are lined up along the embankment.. The clarity of the lines is softened by distance, moisture-saturated air, and their reflections in the river tremble and melt. This classic view of St. Petersburg evokes a feeling of grandeur and at the same time grace. The State Tretyakov Gallery came from the collection of Alexander Sergeevich Taneyev.
“View of the Palace Embankment from the Peter and Paul Fortress” 1794. Fyodor Alekseev. Tretyakov Gallery
Painting:
Artist: Fyodor Yakovlevich Alekseev (1753/55 – 1824)
Date of painting: 1794
Painting dimensions: 70X108 cm
Permanently exhibited: Tretyakov Gallery. Lavrushinsky lane, 10, hall 6
“View of the Palace Embankment from the Peter and Paul Fortress” in the halls of the Tretyakov Gallery
About this painting, now kept in the Tretyakov Gallery, the poet Konstantin Batyushkov wrote with admiration: “ Look now at the embankment, at these huge palaces, each more majestic than the other! These houses are one more beautiful than the other! …How majestic and beautiful this part of the city is!»
Fedor Alekseev. “View of the Mikhailovsky Castle in St. Petersburg from the Fontanka.” Around 1800
The foreground of the picture is occupied by the wall of the Peter and Paul Fortress. Turning to the urban landscape, Fyodor Alekseev created an ideal harmonious world in the picture. Water, air and architecture merge into one inextricable whole. Poetry and noble, restrained admiration fill the landscape. A contemporary of the artist wrote enthusiastically about “harmony and transparency, which constitute the main advantage of his brush.”
“View from Lubyanka to the Vladimir Gate.” Fyodor Alekseev Around 1800. Central Museum of A.S. Pushkin, St. Petersburg
Academician of the Imperial Academy of Arts Fyodor Alekseev- the first master of urban landscape in Russian painting. In lyrical paintings executed with great subtlety, he captured the austere appearance of St. Petersburg, the picturesque beauty of Moscow, and the poetry of everyday city life.
From 1803 until the end of his life, Fyodor Alekseev taught perspective painting in the landscape class of the Academy of Arts. His students were famous artists and future eminent teachers M.N. Vorobyov, F.F. Shchedrin, S.F. Shchedrin.
“Red Square in Moscow” Fedor Alekseev. 1801. Tretyakov Gallery
Unfortunately, the end of the life of the honored master was sad. He died in poverty November 11, 1824, three days after creating his last sketch of the flood in St. Petersburg (near the Bolshoi Theater). He was buried at the Smolensk Orthodox Cemetery in St. Petersburg. The Academy of Arts allocated money for the funeral and assistance to a large family.
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Palace Embankment can be called one of the most beautiful and famous embankments in St. Petersburg. It is here that the world-famous sights of the Northern capital are located: the Hermitage, Winter Palace, Russian Museum, House of Scientists and many others. From this street there is an excellent view of the Spit of Vasilievsky Island and the Peter and Paul Fortress. The Palace Embankment is located on the left bank of the Neva from the Kutuzov Embankment to the Admiralteyskaya Embankment. Its length is 1300 meters.
On the Palace Embankment there are world-famous sights of the Northern capital: the Hermitage, the Winter Palace, the Russian Museum, the House of Scientists and many others. From this street there is an excellent view of the Spit of Vasilievsky Island and the Peter and Paul Fortress.
The development of the Palace Embankment began quite early - at the very beginning of the 18th century. The architectural tone of the buildings was set by the summer and winter residences of Peter I. People close to the Tsar also began to build their houses on this land. In 1705, the first wooden house of Admiral General Fyodor Apraksin appeared. The building defined the red line of the street, and all other buildings began to be erected according to this line.
Palace Embankment
Palace Embankment had many names: Cash Line, Verkhnyaya Kamennaya Line Embankment, Millionnaya. It was often called Pochtovaya due to the fact that the Postal Yard was located here. In 1762, the architect Rastrelli built the royal residence here - the Winter Palace. After this, the embankment, square and bridge located nearby began to be called palace. Already under Soviet rule, the street was renamed the Ninth January Embankment. But in 1944 it was given back its old name.
To transport the main part of the Alexander Column, which weighs 600 tons, a special pier was used on Palace Embankment. Engineer Glasin developed a special bot capable of lifting loads of up to 1,100 tons. In order to unload the monolith, they even built a new pier.
Gradually, the embankment became better and better: it was dressed in granite and made convenient descents to the river. By the way, until the mid-18th century, all St. Petersburg embankments were wooden. Palace Embankment became the first stone street. Nevertheless, in the 20s of the 19th century, the area around the Winter Palace remained unkempt. The construction of the General Staff building was planned here and therefore there were working materials, piles of sand and boards everywhere, as well as all kinds of warehouses and barns. Nicholas I commissioned the architect Carlo Rossi to put this place in order. Rossi developed a project for a beautiful descent to the Neva, decorated with sculptures of Dioscuri and lions. But the emperor was not impressed by the sculptures of young men holding back horses, so they were replaced with porphyry vases. Subsequently, in connection with the construction of the Palace Bridge, the pier with the lions was moved to the Admiralty Embankment.
Palace Embankment has always been famous for the fact that famous and influential people lived here: the Romanov dynasty, poet Ivan Krylov, Count Sergei Witte.
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Alekseev Fedor Yakovlevich (1753 (4?), St. Petersburg - 1824, St. Petersburg)
Painter. One of the founders of the Russian urban landscape. Born in St. Petersburg in the family of a watchman at the Academy of Sciences. He studied at the garrison school. At his father's request he entered the Imperial Academy of Arts (1766). While studying at the Academy in 1767, he was among the students in the class of ornamental sculpture, led by Louis Rolland, and then studied painting with G. Fandermint and A. Perezinotti in the class of fruits and flowers, then in the landscape class. Pensioner of the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice (1773–1777), where he studied with the perspectivalists D. Moretti, later P. Gaspari. There he improved as a theater artist and landscape painter. In the 1790s. He produced landscapes of St. Petersburg, for which he received the title of academician (1794). At the same time, Catherine II ordered Alekseev copies of paintings by A. Canaletto and B. Belotto. In 1795, he was sent to the south of Russia and the Crimea to sketch the places that Catherine II visited in 1787. Among the works of this period is “View of the City of Nikolaev”, (1797–1800, Russian Museum). From 1799 he was a painter at the Directorate of the Imperial Theatres. In 1800, at the direction of the Senate, he was sent to Moscow to paint city views. Advisor to the Imperial Academy of Arts (since 1802). He taught in the class of perspective painting at the Academy of Arts (from 1803 until the end of his life). In the 1800s–1810s. created a new series of St. Petersburg landscapes, among which is “View of the Palace Embankment from the Peter and Paul Fortress” (1794, Russian Museum).
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Fyodor Yakovlevich Alekseev was the first in Russian painting to become a master of the urban landscape.
At the age of 16, while studying at the Academy of Arts, in 1773 he received a gold medal for a program landscape and was sent to Venice to study painting theatrical scenery. This did not correspond to his inclinations, and in Venice he became interested in the views and fantastic engravings of the Roman artist Piranesi, the works of the famous Italian landscape painters Canale, Guardi, which caused dissatisfaction with the authorities of the Academy and entailed forced work as a decorator at a theater school upon returning to his homeland, he was refused in a program to obtain any academic title.
He received the long-awaited opportunity to paint original landscapes only in 1786. By this time, he had gained fame as the “Russian Canaletto”, copying landscapes by Canale, Robert, Berne from the Hermitage collection.
Working independently, he managed to create the image of majestic St. Petersburg. For the paintings “View of the Peter and Paul Fortress and the Palace Embankment,” painted in 1793, and “View of the Palace Embankment from the Peter and Paul Fortress,” in 1794 the artist received the title of academician of perspective painting and was sent to Novorossiya and Crimea to create landscapes of southern cities. This is how views of the cities of Nikolaev, Kherson, and Bakhchisarai appear in Alekseev’s work.
In 1800, he received an assignment from Emperor Paul I to paint views of Moscow. Moscow works with views of streets, monasteries, suburbs, and various images of the Kremlin attracted many customers from among noble nobles and members of the imperial family, notable for their documentary quality.
In 1800, Alekseev headed the class of perspective painting at the Academy of Arts, and since 1802 he returned to his favorite theme of St. Petersburg, now the entire foreground of his canvases is occupied by people against the backdrop of beautiful palaces and the unique Neva.
With his many years of hard work, Alekseev proved his right to be a landscape painter. He died, however, gradually forgotten by the public, in great poverty. The Academy was forced to allocate funds for his funeral and benefits for the artist's widow and his small children.
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