Trompovsky, Edmund von

Edmund Trompovsky was the first of five children in the family of wealthy Riga burghers - Edmund and Rosalia Trompovsky.

On the maternal line, his clan ascended to the illustrious family of barons Wrangel , whose representatives, natives of Sweden , settled in Estland and Livonia.

The tombstone of one of the members of the family with an epitaph is located on the territory of the old Dome cemetery.

The old house of the Trompovskys family went out to the Vermanes Park , where the childhood of little Edmund, his brothers and sisters, passed.

The sudden death of the head of the family predetermined several years of poverty and want. Edmund Trompovsky earned money by ancillary work and tutoring .

In 1871, Edmund Trompovsky entered the Faculty of Architecture at the Riga Polytechnic (Das Baltische Polytechnikum zu Riga). Additional vocational training acquired in the Petersburg Construction School .

In 1878 he received the diploma of civil engineer.

The management of the Department of Engineers of Livonia sends a young specialist to Vitebsk province .

In 1879 , after returning to Riga, Edmund Trompovsky, on behalf of shipbuilders and serf engineers, is engaged in research of the seabed at the Ust-Dvinskaya fortress . At the same time, she takes an active part in the preparatory work for the construction of the Tukkum - Windau railway line.

In 1880 , after a short period of engineering activity, Trompovsky decided to open his own architectural office. Subsequently, the architectural workshop of Trompovsky became one of the main offices in the design of the new center of Riga.

In the workshop of the architect worked, educated in the Riga Polytechnic, Gerhard von Tiesenhausen and Herbert Timmer , who after practicing in the Trompovsky bureau, made an independent contribution to the architecture of Riga. ^[2]

The fame and reputation of an architect with a good taste, Edmund Trompovskiy brought an apartment house belonging to the descendants of the old Ostsee noble family of Tiesenhausen , built in 1883 . This colorful and in our day building with small refined turrets (in modern Riga - the building of the hotel Monika) was located at the intersection of Elizavetinskaya street and the First Vygonnoy dam.

In this house in the family of a lawyer in 1891, a well-known representative of the poetic world of the Silver Age , the last love of Alexander Alexandrovich Blok , a well-known activist of the Russian émigrés in France , a member of the Resistance Movement - Elizaveta Yurievna Pylenko ^{[3] was born} .

Elizaveta Yurievna Pilenko gained fame in the world of Russian literature under the name Elizaveta Kuzmina-Karavaeva, and in the European and religious tradition, as Mother Mary .

The building, richly decorated with a number of bright architectural details and similar to a romantic medieval castle, was built in neo - gothic style. This house is still dominant at the intersection of major streets.

• In 1896, the first Riga six-story apartment building was built according to the design of Edmund Trompovsky. It is located at Lachplesha street (formerly Romanovskaya), 17.
• Two years later, in 1898 , saw the light of the second six-story residential building of a new type, at 10 Antonyas Street . The house is located at the end of Albert Street .
  From the windows of this house made "classic" photos of Albert Street , published in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia . From here there opens a panorama of houses created in the heyday of Riga modernity , created by architect M. O. Eisenstein in the beginning of the 20th century. ^[four]
  There lived in this house: Soviet artist-architect V.S. Lukyanov ^[5] , famous painter Ya. A. Pauluks ^[6] , after the war, the family of Father Nil Ushakov , the mayor of Riga since 2009, lived here ^[7] .
• In 1900, a six-story house was built with a shop on Bruninieku Street , 22.
• The six-story apartment house on Skolas street (house 13, 1901 ).
• The six-storey building with a shop at the corner of Yekaba street and Smilshu street ( Yekaba street, 2/4, 1893 ). Currently in this house is a bank.
• On Cesu Street , 43, a six-story apartment building with a shop, 1910 .
• The six-story apartment building with a shop, Blaumanya Street , 6, 1912 .
• The four-storey building of the Jewish club and theater is Skolas Street, 6, 1914 . Now it is the home of the Riga Jewish community.
• The architect’s own house with an architectural studio, which is decorated with two coats of arms of the Von Trompovskiy family. Street Citadeles , 2, 1914 .

• From 1904 to 1908, it is possible to call the “silent” period in the works of Edmund Trompovsky. The eclectic style in which the master worked already seemed to the general public to be too strict, uncreative and dogmatic. Eclecticism has given way to daring modernity . Soon and modern, with a deliberate desire for excessive decoration, fades into the background - a rational start wins a convincing victory, and the year 1908 became the watershed between these stylistic methods.
• After a period of creative “lull”, in 1908, new projects by Edmund Trompovsky appeared. This late period of the master's creative activity was carried out in the light of rational modernism , which gained incredible popularity in Riga - most of the houses in the central part of the city were built using elements of this architectural direction.
• In total, about 100 residential buildings were built by the architect Trompovsky in Riga. A wooden house built according to his project has been preserved in the Riga region of Pävinje , in the wooden building quarter on Kalnciema Street - house 25a ( 1899 ).
• Of industrial objects, the building of the Livonia brewery ( 1898 ), located at 231 Maskavas Street , should be noted.

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  Villa Mundel, 1887 .
  Riga, Maza Nomentu, 43.
  Currently a hotel.

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  Memorial plaque
  Mother Mary .
  House Tiesenhausen,
  Riga, Elizabetes, 21

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  Antonijas, house 10 (1898)

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  Anthonyas, house 10.
  Stairwell light

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  Anthonyas, house 10.
  Mezzanine . staircase

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  Latvian Bank ( 1883 ).
  Riga, Ekaba street

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• Villa Mündel, architect Edmund von Trompovsky