TON Konstantin

October 26, 1794 (St. Petersburg) - January 25, 1881 (St. Petersburg)

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from a family jeweler, a native of Germany, the elder brother of the architect A. Ton. General education in the German school at the Lutheran Church of St.. Peter (Peterschule, 1801-1804). He studied at the IAH (1803-1815) in the architectural class in A. Voronikhin. Awarded small (1813, 1814) and large (1813) silver medals. In 1815, received a small gold medal on the draft of the Senate building, was released from the Academy with the certificate of title of the class artist 1-st degree.

in 1815-1816 remained at IAH pensioner.

From 1817 he served in the Committee of Construction and Water Works. In 1818, for the program "Project Fair" was awarded a large gold medal and became entitled to a pensioner's trip abroad for six years.

In 1819, the means of the Cabinet of His Imperial Majesty sent abroad, he lived in Rome, where he studied the ancient monuments. He traveled to Italy: traveled to Sicily, Florence, Genoa, Ravenna, Bologna, Milan. I visited in Switzerland (Geneva) and France (Paris).

In 1828 he returned to Petersburg, where he joined the Cabinet of His Imperial Majesty. In 1830, for completed projects in Italy, restoration of the temple of Fortune in Preneste, Caesars Palace in Rome on the Palatine hill, and the "Project for the church library and academic buildings" was awarded the title of academician. Since 1833 a "project of the Greek monastery of creed for 100 people" approved at the rank of professor of degree 2, in 1843 became a professor of degree 1. Since 1854 - rector of the architectural part of the IAH, Professor Emeritus. Since 1857 - the architect of the Highest Court. Member of the Academy of St. Luke in Rome, Florence Academy of Fine Arts professor, corresponding member of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

Finished Projects church of St. Catherine at Kalinkina Bridge in St. Petersburg (1827-1831), the Cathedral of St.. Catherine in Tsarskoe Selo (1835-1842), the Cathedral of Christ the Savior (1839-1883), the Grand Kremlin Palace (1837-1854) in Moscow, train stations and travel buildings Nikolaev railway (1847-1851). A project of the silver iconostasis for the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg (1831-1833). Drafting a model church in 1000, 500, 200, and hospitals.

issued two large satin restoration project of Roman antiquity, in 1838 released an album of his drawings of large-format, which includes elevations and sections of Christ the Savior Church in St. Petersburg, Saratov, Peterhof, Tsarskoe Selo, Novgorod ( "Projects of Churches ..."). In 1844 was published addition to the album, which were placed by drawings of wooden churches.

tone - one of the most significant architects of the "Russian" historicism, the creator of Russian-Byzantine (neo-Byzantine) direction. In his work features classicism (the desire for compositional clarity, balance of mass, functionality, layout), joined with decorative elements and compositional techniques of the medieval Russian and Byzantine architecture.