In the history of building, Aleksey Gornostaev is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Aleksey Gornostaev as Russian architect (1808–1862).
Aleksey Gornostaev was born at Nizhny Novgorod in 1808. His recorded nationality is Russian Empire.
Industrialisation gave architecture iron, glass and the lift, and with them the problems of the railway station, the factory and the tall city block.
He is recorded as architect.
His work is associated with russian revival architecture.
Among his best-known works are Valaam Monastery, Staraya Ladoga and Uspenski Cathedral. An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
That the work was built in Russian Empire shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Aleksey Gornostaev died in 1862, aged 54. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Valaam Monastery
- Notable work: Staraya Ladoga
- Notable work: Uspenski Cathedral
- Movement: Russian Revival architecture
