Zalessky, Vasily Gerasimovich

A nobleman, his family belonged to the clergy and has been known in the Smolensk region since the 18th century. He graduated in 1867 from the St. Petersburg Construction School with the title of civil engineer. He was enrolled in the Technical Construction Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and since 1868 was directed to the construction of the Saratov - Tambov and Moscow - Smolensk railways. In 1871 he was awarded the title of engineer-architect. In 1876 he entered the service of the Construction Department of the Moscow City Government as a supernumerary technician, taking charge of the Pyatnitskaya, Serpukhov and Yakimansk parts of Moscow. In 1878, V. G. Zalessky received the rank of college assessor and was transferred to the post of member of the Construction Council at the Moscow City Government, with whom he was dismissed in 1891 due to the violation of the Red Square by the Upper Trading Rows . In 1883-1906 he first served as a teacher, then an associate professor at the Imperial Moscow Technical School (IMTU) . Corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Society of Architects , member of the Moscow Architectural Society since 1875. The initiator of creation ^[1] and the long-term chairman of the Moscow branch of the Society of Civil Engineers. The author of articles on the technique of construction. ^[2]

In 1895, together with his IMTU colleague, a heating engineer V. M. Chaplin, Zalessky organized the trading house “V. Zalessky and V. Chaplin. " As partners, in 1902 Zalessky and Chaplin built their own house on Bolshaya Dmitrovka , 16, in which their families had their own floors and where the premises of their technical office were located. In the office of Zalessky and Chaplin, in the early years, the future famous Soviet architect K. S. Melnikov and the creator of the first Russian planetarium M. V. Chistozvonov worked.

Among the realized projects of the trading house “V. Zalessky and V. Chaplin ”- heating and ventilation systems of nearly 1,500 buildings in dozens of cities of the Russian Empire: the Museum of Fine Arts named after Emperor Alexander III, the Rumyantsev Museum, the Polytechnic Museum , the Auditorium of the Moscow University, the Imperial Moscow Technical School, the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and architecture , Aleksandrovsky military school, Brest (Belorussky) station , automobile plant A. M. O., Sandunovsky baths , Metropol hotel , Hermitage restaurant, building of the Russia insurance company , eye bol Ynza them. Alekseevs, Sheremetev’s strange house, St. Basil’s Cathedral , crypt of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich in the Miracle Monastery, Perervinsky Monastery, Zaikonospassky Monastery, temple of the Martha-Mariinsky Convent - all in Moscow; Tomb of the Yusupovs in Arkhangelsk, St. Petersburg City Children's Hospital, Putilov Factory, Arkhangelsk City Rows, Nizhny Novgorod City Theater, Kiev Commercial Institute, the Royal Palace in Livadia, Irkutsk Plant Triangle, Children's Hospital in Baku, Stolypin Factory in Penza, Kazan Temple Mother of God in Riga, power station in Ryazan, Tambov powder factory, Volga-Kama bank in Samara , Kaluga Diocesan School, Kharkov University and many others.

In the 1920s, he served as a professor at MVTU . He lived in Moscow on Malaya Dmitrovka , 15; Bolshaya Dmitrovka, 16; Petrovka , 19; in Vorotnikovsky Lane , 2. The fate of V. G. Zalessky after 1923 is unknown. ^[2]

At the end of the 19th century, V. G. Zalessky acquired a small estate of 127 acres in the Dorogobuzh district of Smolensk province with the village Shishkin on the banks of the Vopets river. Now Shishkino is the northern outskirts of the city of Safonov . The estate was bought by Zalessky as a summer residence. Despite the fact that Shishkino was a place for Vasily Gerasimovich to relax from his extensive professional activities, he did not remain aloof from the life of the local okrug. At the request of Prince V.M. Urusov, Chairman of the Dorogobuzh District Assembly, Zalessky drafted plans and estimates for the construction of zemstvo elementary schools with one and two classrooms for free. Two miles from Shishkin, in the village of Aleshin, the Dorobuzh zemstvo began to create a large hospital. In 1909, Zalessky committed himself to be the trustee of this hospital under construction, and in 1911 proposed to equip it with central heating at his own expense ^[3] . According to the memoirs of relatives of V. M. Chaplin, it was believed that in the early 1920s V. G. Zalessky left Moscow for his former estate in Dorogobuzh district.

• Golovin city estate (1877, Moscow, Potapovsky lane , 8);
• The mansion castle belonged to the managing director of the partnership of the Prokhorovskaya three-mountain manufactory (1884, Moscow, Bolshoy Trekhgorny lane No. 1/26, p. 2)
• City laundries (1885, Moscow, Nizhnyaya Krasnokholmskaya street , 5), demolished in the 1990s;
• The ensemble of buildings of the printed works of E. Zindel (1886-1891, Moscow, Derbenevskaya embankment , 7, 11) ^[4] ;
• The extension to the house of S.P. von Derviz (L.K. Zubalova) (6, Sadovaya-Chernogryazskaya Street , Moscow, 1889);
• The factory buildings of the Gübner Partnership (1880s, Moscow, 12 Bolshaya Savvinsky Lane );
• The main house of the estate P.I. Kharitonenko (1891-1893, Moscow, Sofiyskaya embankment , 14/12 - Bolotnaya square , 12/14, bldg. 1, 2, 3, 4,), interiors - in collaboration with architect F. O. Shekhtel and artist F. Flameng ;
• The apartment building of V. G. Zalessky and V. M. Chaplin (16 Bolshaya Dmitrovka , Moscow, 1902), demolished in 2004 ;
• Production buildings of the Mussi Silk Manufactory Partnership (late 19th century, Elektrozavodskaya street , 27) ^[4] ;
• The Church of the Holy Prince Vladimir of the Equal to the Apostles (1906, Smolensk Region , Safonovo ), was destroyed, rebuilt in 1991 ^[5] .

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• Zalessky Vasily Gerasimovich Article on biografija.ru
• Zalessky Vasily Gavrilovich (Gerasimovich) (Russian) . Reference book of scientific societies of Russia. Date of treatment December 19, 2010. Archived on April 16, 2012.