Ivan Grigorovich-Barsky
Ivan Grigorovich-Barsky[1][2][3][4][5] or Ivan Hryhorovych-Barskyi (Russian: Иван Григорьевич Григорович-Барский, Ukrainian: Іван Григорович Григорович-Барський) (born 1713 in Litkovychi in a family from Bar, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth - died 1785 in Kiev, Russian Empire) was a Ukrainian-born Imperial Russian architect who worked in the Late Cossack Baroque style. He was a graduate of the Kiev-Mohyla Academy, and designed many buildings and churches in Kiev and elsewhere.
He is also known as a brother of Vasil Grigorovich-Barsky.
Buildings designed in Kiev by him are: the church and belfry of Saint Cyril's Monastery and Church (1750–1760), the Church of the Holy Protectress (1766), the Church of Saint Nicholas on the Bank (1772–1775), the belfry of Saints Peter and Paul Monastery (1761–1773), the Old Bursa of the Kyivan Mohyla Academy (1778), the Gostynyi Dvor warehouse (1760s), the Fountain of Samson (1748-1749), and the Magistrat grain warehouse (1760).
Other buildings designed by him are: the Church of the Three Saints (1761) in Lemeshi near Chernihiv, the regimental chancellery (1757), the Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God (1752–1764, in collaboration with Andrey Kvasov) in Kozelets, the buildings of the Mezhyhirskyi Monastery in Vyshhorod.
Notes
- Touring Kyiv: Guidebook
- Kiev: Architectural Landmarks Places of Interest
- A Short History of the Ukraine. Kiev, 1986. P. 89.
- Kiev: A Guide
- Brumfield, William Craft: Gold in azure: one thousand years of Russian architecture. D.R. Godine, 1983. P. 20.