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KOKORINOV, Alexander Filippovich - b. 1726 Tobol'sk, d. 1772 St. Petersburg - WGA

KOKORINOV, Alexander Filippovich

(b. 1726 Tobol'sk, d. 1772 St. Petersburg)

Russian architect and educator, one of the founders, the first builder, director (1761) and rector (1769) of the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. Kokorinov has been house architect of the Razumovsky family and Ivan Shuvalov, the first President of the Academy. Kokorinov’s surviving architectural legacy, once believed to be substantial, has been reduced by recent research to only two buildings, the Imperial Academy of Arts and Kirill Razumovsky palace in St. Petersburg. The Academy was designed by Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe based on an earlier proposal by Jacques-François Blondel (1705-1774), while Kokorinov managed the construction in its early phases (1764-72).

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The Razumovsky Palace is one of the few palaces and mansions remaining from the 18th century in St. Petersburg. It got its name from Kirill Razumovsky, the great Hetman (Cossacks leader) of Ukraine and President of the Academy of Sciences. He was also the younger brother of Alexey Razumovsky, a favourite of the Russian Empress Elizabeth.

Razumovsky commissioned the architect Alexander Kokorinov to replace the former wooden palace with a new stone building. By 1766 the work was completed by Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe. The strictly symmetrical main fa�ade of the building includes many finely traced bas-reliefs. The front courtyard was separated from the embankment by a high stone wall with a monumental gate in the centre.

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