Alexei Shchusev. 150
Alexey Shchusev was an architect of unique talent, who brilliantly showed himself in different architectural styles and trends of the late 19th - first half of the 20th centuries. The two-part exhibition "Alexey Shchusev. 150" in the Museum of Architecture presents to the public about 200 architectural projects created by Shchusev during his more than half a century career. The exposition includes almost 600 items: project graphic sheets are supplemented by the master's student and artistic works, archive photographs, letters, documents and personal belongings of Alexey Shchusev, models and layouts. The exhibition will allow you to look at the great architect as a man, artist, urban advocate, scientist, restorer, founder and first director of the Museum of Russian Architecture.
The exhibition "Alexey Shchusev. 150" is the most large-scale project of the Museum for the last decades. It occupies two main exhibition spaces: the exposition in the Anfilade is devoted to civil architecture projects, while the Aptekarsky Prikaz presents the master's temple architecture.
A separate room is dedicated to Alexey Shchusev's railway projects: the Kazan railway station, the master's favourite and most difficult brainchild, which he spent 38 years working on, and previously unknown to the public structures of the Arzamas-Shikhrany, Nizhny Novgorod-Kotelnich and Kazan-Yekaterinburg railway lines. Typical projects of railway stations, depots, water supply buildings, residential and household buildings, architectural design of tunnel portals demonstrate the flexibility of thinking and practical savvy of the author who wants to achieve a high artistic result within the strict limits of the technical assignment.
In the section "New Moscow" the viewers will get acquainted with the works created in the first Soviet years: the plan of reconstruction of the capital "New Moscow", the projects of the All-Russian Agricultural and Crafts and Industrial Exhibition, the Palace of Labour and Lenin's Mausoleum - one of the key works not only in the creative heritage of Shchusev, but also in the history of domestic architecture of the twentieth century as a whole.