Shaposhnikov, Ivan Ivanovich (architect)

According to the stories of his daughter, E. I. Roerich , Ivan Shaposhnikov’s grandfather came to Russia under Peter I from Riga , where he was mayor . When Peter I visited the Baltic region, he presented the king with a richly decorated copy of the Monomakh hat . Peter was pleased with the reception and invited the burgomaster to move to Russia . Upon acceptance by the grandfather of Russian citizenship, Peter gave him a new surname - Shaposhnikov ^{[1] [2]} . The grandfather had one son Ivan, who married Vorontsova and they had four sons and six daughters. One of the sons - Ivan Ivanovich Shaposhnikov. ^[3] .

In 1844 - 1847, I. I. Shaposhnikov studied at the St. Petersburg Commercial School, and from 1855 to 1864 at the Imperial Academy of Arts . Since 1865 he was a teacher at the Construction School (in 1882 it was renamed the Institute of Civil Engineers ); since 1872 - a teacher at the Technological Institute, and since 1882 - an architect of the Main Engineering Department of the military department. In 1870, he became a founding member of the St. Petersburg Imperial Society of Architects . ^[four]

He rebuilt the church of the Ulan Regiment in Peterhof , built cottages in the vicinity of St. Petersburg, the temporary church of St. Catherine’s in St. Petersburg, the house for washing and burial in the Preobrazhensky Jewish cemetery , worked on the construction of the buildings of the Alexander Steel Plant. The brightest and most grandiose building is the Great Choral Synagogue . The project, which won first place in the selection competition, was implemented in 1880 together with L.I. Bakhman . The synagogue was built in 1883 - 1893 under the supervision of the architect A.V. Malov.

He was married to Ekaterina Golenishcheva-Kutuzova. Their two children - son Illarion and daughter Anna, died at the age of five, and daughter Elena , having married the artist, traveler and public figure Nikolai Roerich , gained fame in Russia as a religious philosopher.

• Order of St. Stanislav 2nd and 3rd degree
• Order of St. Anne , 2nd and 3rd degree
• Order of St. Vladimir 3rd and 4th degree
• In 1897, he was elevated (by order) to the hereditary nobility, together with his wife and daughter, with the right to include in the third part of the noble genealogy book. ^[four]

• Prospect Rimsky-Korsakov , d. No. 55 / Lermontovsky prospekt , d. No. 9 - apartment building. 1871 , 1885 . An existing building is included.
• Shcherbakov Lane , d. No. 1, the left part is a tenement house. 1872 .
• Tchaikovsky Street , d. No. 31 - apartment building. Restructuring and expansion. 1873 .
• Tchaikovsky Street , d. No. 18 - apartment building. 1876 - 1877 .
• Borovaya street , house number 23 / Konstantin Zaslonov street , house number 21 - apartment building. Perestroika 1877 .
• Riga Avenue , d. No. 25 - apartment building. Perestroika 1880 .
• 19th line , d. No. 12 - a mansion and a shop of sculptural products of R. Ginkeldein. 1881 . (Add-on and extended).
• Griboedov Canal Embankment , d. No. 138 - apartment building. 1882 - 1883 . An existing house is included.
• Lermontovsky Prospect , d.№ 2 - choral synagogue. The project together with L.I. Bachman . Implemented in 1883 - 1893 by A.V. Malov.
• English Avenue , d. No. 18 - the mansion of S. K. Rimsky-Korsakova. Perestroika 1887 .
• Grechesky prospekt , d. No. 1 - the building of the rash hospital. 1891 . Together with N.F. Becker.
• Street Oskalenko , d.18, the left building - the hospital building of the St. Petersburg provincial zemstvo. 1891 - 1899 . Together with N.F. Becker.
• Pryazhka Rei Embankment , d.№ 5 / Alexander Blok street , d.№ 2-4, the left part - the house and cartographic institution of A. A. Ilyin. 1896 - 1897 .
• Prospect Obukhovskaya Defense , bld. 116 - building of the Alexandrovsky Steel Plant. 1890s .
• Street Komsomol , d. No. 22 / street Academician Lebedev , d. No. 1-3 - a complex of buildings of the Mikhailovsky Artillery School and Academy . Expansion. 1890s . (Partially rebuilt).

• Roerich, Elena Ivanovna - daughter of Ivan Ivanovich Shaposhnikov

• Architects of St. Petersburg. XIX - beginning of XX century / comp. V. G. Isachenko ; ed. Yu. Artemyev, S. Prohvatilova. - SPb. : Lenizdat , 1998 .-- 1070 p. - ISBN 5-289-01586-8 .

• St. Petersburg assemblies