Startsev, Osip Dmitrievich

Osip Startsev came from a family of hereditary builders. Father O. D. Startsev - Dmitry Mikhailovich Startsev - was a famous architect; in 1660-1670, under his leadership, the largest administrative and trading center was built at that time - the Gostiny Dvor complex in Arkhangelsk . In 1683, he made an estimate for the construction of the hour tier of the Trinity Tower of the Moscow Kremlin . Osip Startsev, under the guidance of his father, went through a good school and gained valuable practical knowledge.

• 1676 - the first known work: an estimate for tiling the chambers of the Courtyard in the Moscow Kremlin.
• 1677–1678 - supervised the repair of the Cathedral Church of the Savior Not Made by Hands; Together with his father, he remodels the vaults and stairs in the Ambassadorial and Little Russian orders . For these works, O. D. Startsev twice won the tsar's award "for the fact that he reduced prices in stone affairs."
• 1681 - a radical reconstruction of the Terem churches , as a result, the building acquired its well-known appearance, which has survived to this day. Startsev led the dismantling of dilapidated palace outbuildings, in addition, he won a contract for the construction of the Church of the Resurrection on Presnya (dismantled in the 1730s)
• 1683–1685 - supervised the completion of the refectory of the Simonov Monastery (started in 1677 by Parfen Potapov ; it has survived to this day with virtually no change).
• 1690-1693 - under the leadership of O. D. Startsev, the cathedrals of the Bratsk and Nikolsky Monasteries (known as the Nikolaev Military Cathedral ) were erected in Kiev by order of the hetman Mazepa . Both cathedrals were destroyed in the 1930s.
• 1693 - sent to Smolensk to carry out "city and church affairs."
• 1693-1694 - participated in the construction of the Krutitsky tower - the front gate of the courtyard of the Krutitsky metropolitan .
• the end of the 1690s - the restructuring of the chambers that housed the Ambassadorial and Little Russian orders . With the development of international relations with European countries in the era of Peter I, it was necessary to give greater representativeness to the country's most important foreign affairs agencies. The two-story building was decorated with an open main staircase, a pediment with a globe image was erected above the cornice of the second floor - a symbol of Russia's active involvement in the orbit of world processes. The building was dismantled in the 1770s.
• 1700 - O. D. Startsev participates in the construction of memorial signs on Red Square by decree of Peter the Great.
• 1702-1709 - under the direction of O. D. Startsev, the development of Taganrog , the first southern seaport of Russia, was carried out. By 1709, the stone Trinity Cathedral, the town hall , the palace of Peter I, the governor's house were built. In addition, 206 stone and 162 wooden houses were erected for administration workers, church employees, merchants, garrison troops and sailors, as well as stone warehouses. The signs of the new era were the straightness of the streets, the spaciousness of the squares, the uniformity of buildings, the arrangement of a public space unusual for Russia - a boulevard , the installation of a city clock with a fight, and the tiling of the descent to the harbor . The city, whose population reached eight thousand by 1711, due to the unsuccessful Prut campaign, was destroyed by November 1712, as the territory was returned to Turkey.
• 1711 - O. D. Startsev worked as a simple contractor in the construction of the chambers of the merchant Shustov, designed by architect I. Ustinov .
• 1712 - the date of completion of the construction of one of the last works of O. D. Startsev, the Church of St. Nicholas on Bolvanovka (it remained practically unchanged, in 1945 the tent of the bell tower was demolished, but was soon restored). It is believed that the appearance of this church conveys the architect’s life position at the end of his life: most of Osip Startsev’s creative years were connected with the era of Peter I, he participated in the most advanced enterprises of the autocrat, but by the end of his life he had lost faith in reforms and built a church in the traditional pre-Petrine style - five-headed with a tented bell tower.
• 1714 - a ban on stone construction throughout the country, except for St. Petersburg . O. D. Startsev tonsured monks and ended his life in one of the Moscow monasteries.

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