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Pokrovsky, Vladimir (Aleksandrovich)
(b Moscow, 6 March 1871; d Leningrad [St Petersburg], 1931). Russian architect, teacher and writer. He studied at the St Petersburg Academy of Arts (1892–3), then worked on the construction of Orthodox cathedrals in Warsaw (1893–1912) and in Gusevskiye Zavody, and on designs by his teacher Leonty Benois. He was an outstanding exponent of the Russian Revival style, his designs for religious buildings influenced by the heritage of Novgorod and Pskov and by 16th-century hipped-roof churches in Moscow. They are pyramidal, with compact, sculptural dimensions and a dynamic composition, as in the church (1911–13) at Fyodorovsky Gorodok, Tsarskoye Selo (now Pushkin), and the Gedächtniskirche near Leipzig (1911–13). In designing timber churches Pokrovsky drew on the vernacular architecture of northern Russia, as in his design for a church in the village of Yasenki, Moscow province. During World War I he produced several designs that were not executed, including churches at the Russian embassies in London, The Hague, Rome, and the cathedral of the Trinity in Petrograd (St Petersburg).
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