Victor Ivanovich Butovsky (1815-1881) - Actual State Councilor , Jägermeister of the Court of His Imperial Majesty ; Director of the Stroganov Central School of Technical Drawing .
| Victor Ivanovich Butovsky | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | 1815 |
| Date of death | June 22, 1881 |
| Place of death | Moscow |
| Nationality |  Russian empire |
| Occupation | Actual State Counselor , Jägermeister of the court of the EIV, Director of the Stroganov Central School of Technical Drawing |
| Father | Ivan G. Butovsky |
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Biography
on the portraits of A. G. Varnek (1816) | ||
Victor Butovsky was born in 1815; from the nobles of the Ryazan province; the son of the writer and translator Ivan G. Butovsky , the elder brother of Alexander Butovsky . Initially, Butovsky was brought up in a private boarding house in Kournand, and then entered the Historical and Philological Department of the Imperial St. Petersburg University , which he graduated with a degree of a real student in 1835.
After this, Butovsky served for some time in the Semenovsky Life Guards regiment , then in the office of the Naval Ministry headed by His Holiness Prince A.S. Menshikov and the Minister of Railways K.V. Chevkin , after which he resigned.
A few years later he again entered the service of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Empire (he was a member of the Moscow branch of the Council of Trade and Manufactures ).
In 1860, V.I. Butovsky was appointed director of the Moscow Stroganov Central School of Technical Drawing (now the Moscow State Art and Industry Academy named after S.G. Stroganov ), and in 1868 - director of the Art and Industrial Museum. Butovsky occupied both of these posts until his death.
In 1866, in Moscow, he published the Stroganov Iconographic Facial Original .
In addition to the above, he also chaired the Moscow Hunting Society and the Committee for the Construction of Buildings, which opened after his death, the Moscow All-Russian Trade and Industrial Exhibition.
Victor Ivanovich Butovsky died on June 22, 1881 in the city of Moscow and was buried in the necropolis of the Donskoy Monastery .
Wife: daughter of the hero of the battle of Borodino A.I. Bazilevich , Zinaida (1826-1861). They have a son Victor (1854-1871) and three daughters. The daughter of Alexander (1846-1914) was married to General EV Bogdanovich [1] .
Selected Bibliography
- Stroganov icon-painting front script ( M. , 1866);
- The history of Russian ornament from the 10th to the 16th century according to ancient manuscripts (Art and Industrial Museum in Moscow) - M., 1870 (to this work - atlas);
- On the application of aesthetic education to industry in Europe and in Russia in particular, St. Petersburg. , 1870 (translation into French under the title: “ De l'éducation artistique appliquée à l'industrie en Europe et particulièrement en Russie. St.-P., 1870 ”);
- Considerations on the arrangement in Moscow of a general-education polytechnical museum, read May 13, 1871 at a meeting of the Commission on the construction of this museum (Moscow, 1871);
- Russian art and opinions about it by E. Viola le Duc, French scientist architect, F. I. Buslaev, Russian scientist archaeologist, critical review (M., 1879);
- Memoirs of the Tsar’s hunt for a bear on December 10, 1862 (Moscow Hunting Society in a meeting on March 28, 1881. Read at a meeting of the society by its chairman V.I. Butovsky), M., 1881.
Notes
- ↑ Butovsky, A. D. In his native nest (annals of the Butovsky clan).
Literature
- Butovsky, Viktor Ivanovich // Russian Biographical Dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.
- Aksenova G. First Director of the Stroganov School // Moscow Journal. - 2002. - No. 12 .