Mikhail Preobrazhensky practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Mikhail Preobrazhensky as Russian architect, teacher, architectural historian, academic and restorer (1854–1930).
Mikhail Preobrazhensky was born at Vabalninkas in 1854. His recorded nationality is Soviet Union. He trained at Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.
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 restorer and architect.
His work is associated with russian revival architecture.
His best-known building is Alexander Nevsky Cathedral. Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
Recognition followed: Order of Saint Anna, 2nd class, Order of Saint Stanislaus, 1st class, Order of Saint Stanislaus, 2nd class and Order of Saint Stanislaus, 3rd class.
That the work was built in Soviet Union shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Mikhail Preobrazhensky died in 1930, aged 76. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Alexander Nevsky Cathedral
- Order of Saint Anna, 2nd class
- Order of Saint Stanislaus, 1st class
- Order of Saint Stanislaus, 2nd class
- Movement: Russian Revival architecture
- Trained at Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture
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