For everyone and everything. Applause to Osip Bove. That the famous architect left the Bolshoi Theater to the descendants of Beauvais

We know him as a famous architect Osip Ivanovich Bove.

One list of even the surviving works of Beauvais in Moscow will occupy almost the entire newspaper page. Therefore, we have selected several places to visit and which are associated with curious and even scandalous stories.

Kremlin, Vodovzvodnaya tower➊.- Solid Italy. It was built by an Italian in the Russian service Antonio Gilardi back in the 15th century. By 1805, the tower had become so dilapidated that it was decided to reconstruct it - to sort it out almost entirely and rebuild it. Usually they write that "the case was entrusted to an unknown architect, the Italian Bove." The truth here is only in the origin of the restorer. At that time, he was not an architect - just a student at a school at the Expedition of the Kremlin Building.

Kremlin, Vodovzvodnaya tower Photo: AiF / Valery Khristoforov

But our student cannot be called completely unknown: for several previous works, he was awarded three times by the emperor with a gold watch, and for the tower - also a ring with diamonds.

Napoleonic troops (and again Italians, mercenaries) blew up the tower during the retreat. And - the wicked irony of fate! - after the war, it was restored again by the same Osip Bove. Princess Turkestanova, the big gossip of those times, whom we will meet again, slandered: "To Osip Ivanitch, the tower appeared again in a dream, so much so that he fell ill."

Rogue or artist?

The next point of the walk is The Bolshoi Theatre➋, fortunately, he is near. At that time, he was still called Petrovsky out of habit. Therefore, the estimate was approved as follows: "Allocate 1,200,666 rubles in gold for the construction of the new building of the Petrovsky Theater." The amount is prohibitive. But also luxury. Initial project Andrey Mikhailov has been extensively redesigned. For example, the famous Apollo quadriga was on the rear façade. Bove carried her out to the square. Much has changed inside too: "We must give justice to the new decision of Bove - with the most rigorous research you will see that there is no place in this theater, which would be inappropriate and inconvenient" - these are the senator's recollections Alexandra Bulgakova... But my colleagues were jealous. Architect Alexander Vitberg wrote: "The project of the Petrovsky Theater is a work of Bove, who allowed this project to be appropriated to him." Mikhailov was offended and said: "Osip Ivanovich is not self-sufficient and takes everything from ready-made samples." This is not fair. Beauvais was not so much an architect as a planner of the city itself. Now they would say - "urbanist". Moreover, not much has come down to us from that theater.

But Teatralnaya Square, planned with great grace by Osip Ivanovich, has not gone anywhere. And it is all the more interesting to re-read the issue of “Moskovskiye Vedomosti” dated January 6, 1825: “At the grand opening the audience called not the actors, but the architect. There was a terrible noise in front of the overture. They began to shout out to the builder: "Bove, Bove!" He appeared in the director's box and was drowned out by applause ... "

One more work of the genius could have previously been reached on foot from Teatralnaya Square. Along Tverskaya to Belorussky railway station - and here you are, Triumphal Arch. Now I have to make a detour and go to Kutuzovsky Prospect ➌. But it's worth it. Especially if you remember that this is the last creation of the master. He did not live to see its discovery for several months. But with what warmth and love he treated him! And, by the way, not in vain. It is believed that the architect joined the militia at the beginning of the 1812 campaign. But the truth is that Osip Bove, being a titular adviser in terms of seniority, entered the Moscow hussar regiment as a cornet. That is, in the regular troops. By the way, the company of colleagues in that regiment was also quite sizable. For example, lieutenant Nikolay Tolstoy, the future father of Leo, "the mirrors of the Russian revolution." And the cornet.

The story of the transfer of the arch is also funny. According to the General Plan for the Reconstruction of Moscow in 1935, the monument was dismantled. It was supposed to be restored, but they could not figure out exactly where. Gradually they forgot about him altogether. The ice broke only after the speech of the first cosmonaut of the Earth at the VIII plenum of the Central Committee of the Komsomol in December 1965.

Yuri Gagarin declared: “In Moscow, the Triumphal Arch of 1812 was removed and not restored. I could continue the list of victims of the barbaric attitude towards the monuments of the past. Unfortunately, there are many such examples. " "Gagarin is Gagarin," replied Leonid Brezhnev."Therefore, the first thing we will do is restore the Arc de Triomphe."

Unequal marriage

It is worth looking at house number 6 in Petrovsky lane➍. Bove's authorship belongs only to the classic facade of post-fire Moscow. But, if you are not too lazy and walk around the building, it will become clear: it was built back in the 17th century. And rightly so, the patriarch Adrian was the customer back in 1690. After his death, Peter I abolished the patriarchate, and the house changed several owners.

House number 6 in Petrovsky lane. Photo: AiF / Valery Khristoforov

One of them - Alexey Trubetskoy married to Avdotya Semyonovna... Why is this so detailed? Yes, then, that she was widowed early - her husband died during the overseas campaign of the Russian army, in the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig in 1813. In the same year, the cornet of the Moscow hussar regiment Osip Bove retires from the army. And three years later he marries a widow, Princess Avdotya Trubetskoy. Moves to her house and rebuilds it. The scandal was terrible. She lost the princely title: a painfully unequal marriage. But gossip and rumors beat more trenchant. Have you seen anything - a noble lady with a decent fortune, a mother of five children, marries the son of a Neapolitan artist of indistinct origin!

The same princess Turke-stava made sarcastic remarks about this: "Moscow has gone mad - an artist, an architect, a valet - all are suitable just to get married!" But the marriage still took place. In all senses. The former princess gave birth to four more children to Osip Bove. And it is in this house. Here the architect created the look of post-fire Moscow. So who, after all, is Bove - an independent artist or a talented copyist? Here you need to look for the third answer. And, no matter how blasphemous, remember Andrey Rublev... Once Russian Orthodox Church decided that his icons are a model: "To paint as it is customary from Rublev." It's the same here. Moscow was planned and built according to the words and models of Osip Bove.

Russian architect Osip Bove is known for rebuilding Moscow after a fire during the Napoleonic invasion in 1812. All his main works are executed in the classical style.

Origin

In 1782, the Neapolitan artist Vincenzo Giovanni Bova was invited to Russia to work in the main museum of the country, the Hermitage. Here, in St. Petersburg, in 1784, the future great architect was born. At baptism, he was given the name Giuseppe. But the boy had to live and work in Russia, so his name later became "Russified", and he entered the history of Russian art as Osip Ivanovich Bove. After the birth of their son, the family settled in Moscow. And it was this city that became the fate of Osip.

Studies

The young man received his special education at the Moscow Architectural School, opened during the Expedition of the Kremlin Buildings from the master F. Camporesi (1802 - 1807). After finishing his studies, even before the devastating fire in Moscow, he was lucky enough to be apprentices and assistants to the great architects - and K. I. Rossi, with whom he worked in Moscow and Tver. During these years he gained invaluable experience in practical architecture.

Patriotic War of 1812 and after it

During the time with Napoleon, Bove, like many Russian people, went to fight in the ranks of the militia. In 1813 he returned to Moscow for his service. Burned Moscow was a terrible sight: black ashes, ruins, ruin. To restore the city, it was decided to create a special Commission on the construction of Moscow. Osip Bove was included in this group of architects. He was assigned to be responsible for the development of the central districts of the city: Arbat, Tverskaya, Novinskaya, Gorodskaya and Presnenskaya districts.

In 1814, Bove was appointed chief architect of the "façade" plan, overseeing projects and their production, the accuracy of building in accordance with plans and facades. While working in this position, Bove realized the renovation of the ancient capital, showing a new scope for Moscow and a single stylistic concept. He managed to bring the idea to life master plan, which was approved in 1817, and revived the city - a monument glorifying the greatness of the Russian Empire.

Major creations

Appreciating Bove's remarkable talent, indefatigable diligence and organizational abilities, the council of the Imperial Academy of Arts assigns him honorary title the architect of the named Academy. That year was marked in Bove's personal life by his marriage to the widowed princess Trubetskoy Avdotya Semyonovna, nee Gurieva. Osip Bove was indeed one of the main participants in the architectural renovation of Moscow after the tragic events of 1812. He created three architectural ensembles in the center: Red Square, Theater Square and Alexandrovsky Garden. They have transformed the face of Moscow.

It surrounded the Kremlin and the newly built Bolshoi Theater with unified style buildings and arcades. Now the beautiful large squares of the city center reflected a new perception of Moscow - as the center of civil life in great Russia. At that time, Red Square was also enriched and decorated with a monument to national heroes, emphasizing the patriotic character of the entire majestic central ensemble of Moscow. Parts of the former architectural masterpieces of Beauvais, belonging to the central ensembles, have survived to this day; Small
theater and Manege.

In addition to the central facilities, Bove built the Gradskaya hospital, which is located in the area of the Kaluga outpost. According to his project, the Triumphal Gates were erected near the Tverskaya Zastava, which in 1968 were recreated at Poklonnaya Gora not far from the Victory Monument. Bove died in Moscow on 16 (28) .06.1834. He was buried in the cemetery.

The future urban planner was born into the family of a French artist in St. Petersburg, who moved to Moscow. Young Osip received his primary architectural education and the basics of drawing from the Italian architect Camporese. Then he transferred to the Architectural School at the Kremlin Expedition, headed by M.F. Kazakov. There, a gifted student received a brilliant practice of construction technology from a master on buildings in 1801-1806, when the Golitsynskaya hospital (Second Gradskaya on Kaluzhskaya Street) and the house of Count Razumovsky on Gorokhovaya Street (now Kazakov St.) were being built.

In 1809-1810. In Tver, Osip Bove, together with the architect K.I. Rossi, took part in the construction and decoration of the palace for Prince George of Oldenburg and his wife, Grand Duchess Ekaterina Pavlovna, who was appointed by Emperor Alexander I as governor-general of the Yaroslavl, Tver and Novgorod provinces and director of communications.

After the fire of Moscow in 1812, the "Commission for Buildings in Moscow" was created. The already well-known and energetic "titular adviser Osip Bove, who is serving as an architect," entered the group. The Commission received up to 100 petitions a day for the construction of new buildings - "to bring the capital city into a befitting form." The architect Bove managed to manage the renovation of the Kremlin towers and walls, the construction of the Gostiny Dvor, the construction of residential and state houses, while simultaneously correcting architectural projects submitted to the Commission and planning urban ensembles.

In 1816, Osip Bove submitted to the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts a list of his 34 buildings signed by the commander-in-chief, General A.P. Tormasov, head of restoration work in Moscow, and was approved as an architect.

In 1818-1824. the architect Osip Bove created the project of the Theater Square in front of the Bolshoi Theater (then Petrovsky), enclosing the Neglinnaya River in a pipe. In 1820-1822, he planned and laid out a garden with a grotto-sink, a fountain and a coffee house at the Kremlin wall above the Neglinnaya river, surrounded by a cast-iron lattice with bas-reliefs decorated with military emblems in memory of the war of 1812. In parallel, the architect Bove restored the burned-down Petrovsky Theater, which became the Bolshoi Theater, planned and built Theater Square.

In the years 1824-1825. designed the Manege, giving it a "military" look with pediments, Doric columns and a cornice with a sculptural frieze with stucco molding in the form of military emblems.

In 1825 - 1828 he reconstructed the Catherine (Novoe Catherine) hospital on Strastnoy Boulevard in the Empire style. Another significant object of the architect Bove is the First Gradskaya Hospital (now the City Hospital No. 1 named after NI Pirogov) was built in 1828-1833. Its exquisite portico rests on a smooth wall adorned with sculptural reliefs.

In 1832 the architect Bove rebuilt the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow" on Bolshaya Ordynka in the Empire style.

Osip (Giuseppe) Ivanovich Bove (Italian Giuseppe Bova, French Joseph Bove; born October 24 (November 4) 1784, Petersburg - died June 16 (28), 1834) - Russian architect, famous for the reconstruction of Moscow after the fire of 1812. Beauvais's role in creating the image of Moscow can only be compared with Rossi's work in St. Petersburg. He worked mainly in style classicism... Bove was born in St. Petersburg into the family of the Neapolitan artist Vincenzo Giovanni Bova, who came to Russia in 1782 to work at the Hermitage. The name Giuseppe given at baptism was later changed into the Russian manner in Osip Ivanovich. Soon after the birth of Osip, the family moved to Moscow. Architectural education received at the architectural school at the Expedition of the Kremlin building (1802-1807) from F. Camporesi, then, even before the fire of Moscow, worked under the leadership M.F. Kazakova and K. I. Rossi in Moscow and Tver. During Patriotic War Beauvais participates in the militia, in 1813 he returned to city service. To restore burnt Moscow, a special Commission on the construction of Moscow was created, in which Bove became the architect of the fourth section and was responsible for the central districts of the city: Tverskaya, Arbat, Presnenskaya, Novinskaya and Gorodskaya parts. In 1814, Bove was appointed chief architect of the "façade part", overseeing the projects and their "production exactly along the projected lines, as well as the issued plans and facades." In this post, Bove was able to renew the appearance of the ancient capital, with a new scale for Moscow and according to a single stylistic concept. With the help of the general plan approved in 1817, Bove embodied the idea of a city-monument to the glory of the greatness of the Russian Empire.

In 1816 Bove received the title of architect from the council of the Imperial Academy of Arts and married the widow Princess Avdotya Semyonovna Trubetskoy. Under the leadership of Bove, in the center of Moscow, the Classicist-style shopping arcade opposite the Kremlin was rebuilt (not preserved), the Red Square was reconstructed, the earthen fortifications around the Kremlin were demolished and the moat was filled up, the Kremlin (Aleksandrovsky) Garden was laid, the Manezh was built (the engineering structure was developed by A.A. Betancourt), the Theater Square (1818-1824) was created with the Bolshoi (Petrovsky) Theater (1821-1824; the project was finalized by A. A. Mikhailov). Outside the center, Bove builds the Gradskaya hospital outside the Kaluga outpost (1828-1833). The Triumphal Gates, designed by Bove at the Tverskaya Zastava (1827-1834), were recreated in 1968 near the Victory Monument on Poklonnaya Hill, which was being built at that time.

Bove died in Moscow and was buried in the cemetery of the Donskoy Monastery. Despite all his merits, Bove did not have the title of academician of architecture. In 1816, he asked the Academy of Arts to assign him a program for the title of academician. The Academy approved him as an architect and asked him to design a theater building for 3 thousand people. This program was never carried out.

Structures:

1814-1815 - Shopping arcade opposite the Kremlin (on the site of GUM, not preserved)
1820-1822 - Kremlin (Alexandrovsky) garden with grotto
1824-1825 - Manege
1818-1824 - Theater Square
1821-1824 - Bolshoi Theater
1827-1834 - Triumphal Gates at Tverskaya Zastava (now at Victory Park)
1828-1833 City Hospital (now City Hospital No. 1 named after NI Pirogov). Moscow, Leninsky prospect, 8 building 1 House in the possession of his wife in Petrovsky lane (former Bogoslovsky), now No. 9
House of N. S. Gagarin (later the Book Chamber) on Novinsky Boulevard, destroyed during the Great Patriotic War
1822 -1824 - Church of St. Nicholas in Kotelniki. Moscow, 1st Kotelnichesky per., 8-10
1822 - Church of Michael the Archangel on his wife's estate in Arkhangelskoye. Arkhangelskoye village, Ruzsky district, Moscow region
1825-1828 - Church of the Intercession. The village of Pekhra-Pokrovskoye, Balashikha district, Moscow region (authorship is attributed to the similarity with similar buildings, documentary evidence has not survived)
1825-1828 - Reconstruction of the building of the New Catherine hospice, construction of the Church of Catherine the Great Martyr (now the city hospital No. 24, corner of Petrovka and Strastnoy Boulevard, № 15/29).
1825-1831 - Reconstruction of the Church of the Sign in the village of Holmy in the country estate of his wife.
1820s - Shopping arcade on Taganka (not preserved)
1830 - Church of the Great Ascension at the Nikitsky Gate (revision of the project by F.M.Shestakov in 1829, completed after the death of Bove by A.G. Grigoriev)
1832 - Reconstruction of the Church of All Who Sorrow Joy. Moscow, Bolshaya Ordynka, 20
1833 - Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in the Danilov Monastery Pokrovskaya Z.K.

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People of Russian Science: Essays on Outstanding Figures in Natural Science and Technology / Ed. S. I. Vavilov. - M., L .: State. publishing house of technical and theoretical literature. - 1948.
When writing this article, material was used from the Russian Biographical Dictionary of A.A. Polovtsov (1896-1918).
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For the first time years XIX century Moscow continued to live in the traditions of the last century. The transformation of the ancient capital into a modern comfortable city took place after the Napoleonic invasion and the fire of 1812.
In 1813. was organized by the Commission for the restoration of Moscow, which was engaged in the restructuring of the city for thirty years. In the same year, Osip Ivanovich Bove (1784-1834) returned to Moscow from the people's militia. Before World War II, he studied at the architectural school, headed by Matvey Fedorovich Kazakov, and worked in the Kremlin. Beauvais was now promoted to architect and was in charge of the central part of the city.

Osip Ivanovich Bove was born in 1784 in St. Petersburg, in the family of the painter Vincenzo Giovanni Bove, who worked at the Hermitage, and received the name Joseph, later remade in the Russian manner - in Osip. After him, two more sons were born in the Bove family - Mikhail and Alexander, also future architects and assistants of Osip. As a child, Osip moved with his family to Moscow, where the years of study began. In 1802, Bove entered the architectural school at the Expedition of the Kremlin Building. Beauvais successfully studied at the school of architecture, gradually rising in ranks; from clerk and collegiate registrar in 1803 to provincial secretary in 1806 and collegiate secretary in 1809. In 1809-1812, Bove was already listed among the architects' assistants in the Expedition, participated in the restoration of the Kremlin, renovation of buildings, and improvement of the city.
The beginning of the creative activity of the young architect took place under the leadership of M.F. Kazakov and K.I. Rossi in Moscow and Tver. During the war, Bove joins the militia. In 1813. to restore burnt-down Moscow, a special Commission was created to help residents, provide them with building materials, and oversee the quality of construction. For the convenience of the Commission's work, Moscow was divided into four sectors, in which an architect and assistants were in charge. Bove was appointed architect for the fourth section, which included the central districts of the city: Tverskaya, Arbatskaya, Presnenskaya, Novinskaya and Gorodskaya parts. Bove and his assistants were to draw up projects of residential buildings and monitor their implementation; in addition, it was necessary to design and trade shops throughout the city, the construction of which the Commission gave great importance... The best were the shops on Red Square and around the walls of Kitai-Gorod. It was necessary to pay special attention to the decoration of the facades of state and public buildings, and the responsibility for supervising their development and decoration was decided to be assigned to Bove. In this part of the work, Osip Ivanovich was assisted by his younger brothers.
In February 1816. Osip Bove receives the title of architect from the council of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. In the same year he married Princess Avdotya Semyonovna Trubetskoy, a widow. For some time, the couple lived in the architect's house on Malaya Dmitrovka, then Bove built new house in the estate of his wife in Petrovsky lane (former Bogoslovsky), now this building is listed at number 9.
From 1814 to 1816 Bove was involved in the reconstruction of Red Square. Main square ancient city lost its significance when Moscow ceased to be the capital of the state, and by the beginning of the 19th century. was a space chaotically built up with stone and wooden benches. Bove filled up the moat and destroyed the earthworks that stretched along the Kremlin wall. On the site of the moat, a boulevard was broken and a passage appeared to the embankment of the Moskva River. Bove demolished the dilapidated shops, thereby opening up a view of the Intercession Cathedral (St. Basil's Cathedral). The architect drew up a project for the restoration of the Nikolskaya tower, destroyed in 1812, and rebuilt the building of the Trade Rows, which stood opposite the Kremlin wall, separating the square from Kitai-gorod. Beauvais singled out the compositional center of the square, orienting the center of the shopping arcade facade to the dome of the Senate. In 1818. on this axis, facing the Kremlin, a monument to Minin and Pozharsky, created by Ivan Martos, was erected. (A new building was erected on the site of the Trading Rows in 1888, now standing on Red Square; at the same time, the monument to Minin and Pozharsky was moved to the Intercession Cathedral.)

The next work of Osip Bove is the project of the Theater Square and the building of the Petrovsky Theater, later called the Bolshoi. The idea of creating the square belonged to Tsar Alexander I. The architect had to carry out the most complex urban planning transformations, since the place chosen by the emperor was built up, there were bastions near the walls of Kitai-gorod and the Neglinnaya River flowed. Beauvais designed a rectangular square, the sides of which he decorated with buildings with the same facades. And in the depths of the square was a theater.
In 1819. Beauvais submitted the design of the square with the buildings surrounding it to the Commission for the start of development. Five years later, in 1824, the first performance was given at the Maly Theater.
The Bolshoi Theater - the grandiose work that brought Beauvais the greatest fame - was commissioned to him as "the most skillful of architects." The Petrovsky Theater of the 18th century almost completely burned down in 1805, and the troupe was left without its building for years. The project of the theater, created by Beauvais, was personally approved by Alexander I and accepted for execution. The colossal building was adorned with a majestic portico of eight columns with a pediment and a sculpture of Apollo in a chariot. The auditorium was striking in its size - a huge spacious parterre with an amphitheater and five tiers - and could accommodate up to three thousand spectators. Famous engineer Davis helped to design the technical side of the Bove Theater. The first performance at the new theater took place on January 6, 1825. At the grand opening, the audience called not the actors, but the architect. According to the memoirs of a contemporary, “a terrible noise arose before the overture; began to cry out to the builder: Bove, Bove! He appeared in the director's box and was drowned out by applause, and "bravo" flew around the hall! .. ". Thirty years later, after a fire, the Bolshoi Theater was rebuilt by the architect Kavos, who made major changes and distortions to its original appearance.

At the same time with the work on the Theater Square and the project of the Bolshoi Theater, Bove is engaged in the construction of a new Kremlin Garden (now Aleksandrovsky). The architect had the idea of creating a park near the Kremlin walls on the site of the Neglinka that ran here, with ruins in a romantic spirit, with various bushes and trees, with flower beds and a grotto that has survived to this day. From the side of the Moskva River, the garden was bounded by the Troitsky Bridge with semicircular ramps. At the same time, Bove is engaged in the reconstruction of the Manege, plans interior decoration and the exterior decor of the building.
Contemporaries were especially admired by the grotto designed by Beauvais, which has survived to this day. Four Doric columns seem to grow out of the ground inside the grotto. The strict, weighted forms of this structure went well with the pile of stones, reproducing the ancient Cyclopean masonry. This was the manifestation of the romantic desire to combine the classics with antiquity, characteristic of Russian art of that time.

Post-war Moscow was rebuilt with many residential buildings, and Beauvais constantly received orders from individuals - both nobles and merchants and townspeople. The architect was responsible for the creation of a new project of a merchant house - with retail shops downstairs and living rooms for the owners and tenants upstairs. Beauvais also created a new type of urban mansion with outbuildings on the street and with a ceremonial courtyard reduced to the size of a front garden. Such, for example, was the mansion of N.S. Gagarin (later the Book Chamber) on Novinsky Boulevard, destroyed during the Great Patriotic War.

Bove paid less attention to temple architecture, but all of his works in this area can be called outstanding. In 1821. at the expense of the book. S.M. Golitsyn, he erected the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Kotelniki (1st Kotelnichesky lane, 8-10) - a small slender building in the classicism style, with a two-tiered bell tower, a high dome topped with a spire.
In 1822. Bove is building a new church of Michael the Archangel in his wife's estate near Moscow, Arkhangelsk. Osip Ivanovich generally paid a lot of attention to the country estate, and the brick rotundal church can rightfully be considered one of the best examples of the Empire style. The "twin sister" of this temple was built in 1825-1828. in the village of Pekhra-Pokrovskoe (Balashikhinsky district) at the expense of parishioners under the same project. The refectory was later rebuilt.
In addition, Beauvais built two house churches in city hospitals. Work on the design and construction of new large city hospitals took the architect most of the time in the second half of the 1820s. Since 1825 the re-equipment of the Gagarins' house at the Petrovsky Gates began into the Catherine Hospital (now the 24th City Clinical Hospital). In parallel, Bove was developing a project for the Gradskaya Hospital on Bolshaya Kaluzhskaya Street (now known as 1st Gradskaya on Leninsky Prospekt). This project was approved only in 1828, and large-scale work on its construction began. Beauvais, back in the 1810s. who worked with MF Kazakov on the construction of the neighboring Golitsyn hospital, made the new complex somewhat similar to it, but even more "opened" the building towards the street, extending the main building. The facade of the hospital was decorated with a monumental portico with columns and a wide grand staircase. And Gradskaya, and Catherine Hospital were opened almost simultaneously - in 1833.

In addition to hospitals, in 1826-1828. Bove managed to create a project of the Arc de Triomphe at Tverskaya in honor of the victory over Napoleon. It is a tall one-span arch made of white stone, with six pairs of Corinthian cast-iron columns, crowned with a sculptural group "Glory" - a victorious figure on a chariot. The entire arch is decorated with sculptures: allegorical images of courage, firmness, etc., by soldiers in ancient Russian armor. The sculptures were made by I.P. Vitali and I.T. Timofeev according to Bove's drawings. In 1936. the arch was dismantled during the reconstruction of Tverskaya Street and was restored only in 1968. on Kutuzovsky Prospect.
Few people know that Osip Bove also built a new Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in the Moscow Danilovsky Monastery. For a long time, Tyurin was considered the architect of the temple, but latest research discovered the real author.

In 1818 Nikolai Borisovich Yusupov was expecting Alexander I to visit. Preparing for the meeting, he involved Osip Bove and Pietro Gonzaga as architects for the construction of the manor theater. In 1822 Bove built a church in the village of Arkhangelskoye - the estate of the wife of Princess A.S. Trubetskoy.
One of the last outstanding works of Bove is the Joy of All Who Sorrow Church on Bolshaya Ordynka. And here the architect turned out to be the "co-author" of his mentor Bazhenov, who rebuilt the western part of the temple 40 years earlier. Beauvais, on the other hand, redesigned the eastern half of the church badly damaged during the war, creating a unique building that adorns the entire Zamoskvorechye region. Osip Ivanovich did not manage to complete the construction - he died on June 15, 1834. and was buried in the cemetery of the Donskoy Monastery.

Beauvais never limited himself to just drafting projects, which still delight us with their subtlety and virtuosity. He always directed himself construction works and was an excellent connoisseur of the construction business. Beauvais worked with outstanding engineers, painters and sculptors, and as a result of this creative community, perfect works were created with remarkable artistic, constructive and operational qualities. Beauvais has been recruited many times as an engineering expert.
Osip Ivanovich Bove was a great worker, energetic builder, tireless restorer of Moscow. He created beautiful buildings that serve as the decoration of the city to this day. He was deeply in love with his hometown and with his work wrote a brilliant page in the history of Russian architecture. Moscow is indebted to this master for outstanding works of architecture, which are the most characteristic and striking examples of the Moscow Empire style - this independent large branch of Russian classical architecture of the early 19th century.

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