GRIGORIEV Afanasy Grigorievich

10 (21) January 1782 (Vasilievsky settlement, Tambov province) — 1 (13) may, 1868 (Moscow)

Architect, painter

Fortress General-майора Н. В. Кретова in 1804 получил free. Brother of the architect Д. Г. Григорьева (1789-1856). He studied in Moscow at Д. И. Жилярди, in whose house he spent several years in the school of Architecture at expedition of Kremlin buildings have Ф. И. Кампорези.

he Lived in Moscow. 1808-1840-е — architectural assistant, then — architect of the Educational house in Moscow. One of the greatest masters of the "Moscow Empire style". In collaboration with Д. И. Жилярди worked on projects of the Board of Trustees of the Educational house (1823-1826), urban estate Yacevich-Найденовых (1829-1831), the manor "Kuzminki" (1820-е), outbuildings and services of the Paul hospital (1824). Completed projects at home Khrushchev-Селезневых (1814), Lopukhin (1817-1822), the Palace of Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich at the Crimean bridge (late 1820 — beginning of 1830-х; is not preserved), own home (1843-1844). Grigoriev also ascribed to buildings: the mausoleum in the estate "sykhanovo" near Moscow (1813), a Church (1826-1828) and the manor (1837) in the village of Ershovo near Zvenigorod, the Church. Trinity in the Pyatnitskoe cemetery (1830-1835) and the Ascension (1820-30-е) in Moscow.

he Created sketches of furniture, lighting, decorative painting and ornamental molding.

he was Buried on Kalitnikovskaya cemetery in Moscow.

Exhibitions were held in Kazan (1926) and Moscow (1968).

Architectural graphics is in the collections of the State Tretyakov gallery, State Historical Museum, Science-исследовательского the Museum of architecture. А. В. Щусева.

Source:

Artists of the USSR. Biobibliographic dictionary. M., 1976, vol. 3. P. 174.