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Ivanov-Shits, Illarion (Aleksandrovich)
(b Voronezh, 28 March 1865; d Moscow, 1937). Russian architect. He graduated from the Institute of Civil Engineers, St Petersburg, and then went to Moscow, where he worked as a district architect. His subsequent career, during which he established a reputation as a designer almost exclusively of public service buildings, designing few private houses and no churches, can be divided into three phases. Characteristic of his early work in Moscow during the 1890s are the Belkin and Martyanov houses executed in flamboyant Renaissance and Baroque variants of historicism, and the brick-built Mazyrin municipal children’s home on B. Tsaritsynskaya Street. From 1900 Ivanov-Shits was a member of the Technical Construction Council attached to the Moscow City Authority, where most of his buildings were necessitated by the social conditions of the large city or created to meet the needs of the poor. Works produced during this period include the House of the People (1903) in Vvedensky Square, the first such project in Moscow, and the tea-room theatre, Lefortovo district, and other buildings with auditoria. During the 1900s, with Lev Kekushev, V. F. Valkot (1874–1943) and Fyoder Shekhtel’, Ivanov-Shits became a pioneer in Moscow of the classicizing northern version of Art Nouveau (Rus. modern). Notable examples of his work in this style include the Hirsh Theatre and Restaurant (1898–1902; destr.) on the corner of Povarskaya Street and Merzlyakovsky Lane; the Merchants’ Club (1905–9) on M. Dmitrovka Street, with its foyer and two theatres with magnificent interiors; and the State Savings Bank (1913–14) on Rakhmanovsky Lane, built in several stages, with a parade ground in front of the main façade and a massive banking hall with a glass roof. The Shanyavsky People’s University Building (1910–13), Miusskaya Square, Moscow, is a strictly symmetrical composition, its main façade consisting of three projecting bays and a central, decorated loggia with a colonnade. By far his largest undertaking in this style, although restrained in its formal execution, is the Soldatenkova (now Botkinskaya) City Hospital complex (1908–12) in north-west Moscow.
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