Boris Orlovsky

Mikhail Markov, Boris Orlovsky in Thorvaldsen's Studio, c. 1827, pencil on paper; Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

Boris Ivanovich Orlovsky (Russian: Бори́с Ива́нович Орло́вский; 1790s – 28 December 1837) was a Russian Neoclassical sculptor.

Biography

Born into a serf peasant family in Tula, Russia, his artistic talent led to him being freed by his master and sent to the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg. After studying for six years in Italy under Bertel Thorvaldsen, he returned to teach at the Academy where he later became a Professor. At the same time, he improved his skill in the studios of Santino Campioni and Agostino Triscorni. Boris Orlovsky died in 1837 in Saint Petersburg.

Orlovsky's statues of Kutuzov and Barclay de Tolly in front of the Kazan Cathedral reveal a realistic undercurrent in his otherwise Neoclassical work, typified by the Angel on top of the Alexander Column at the Palace Square.

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  Orlovsky's statue of Mikhail Kutuzov in front of the Kazan Cathedral
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  The angel on the Alexander Column
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  Orlovsky's statue of Michael Barclay de Tolly in front of the Kazan Cathedral

Further reading

• Ramazanov, Nikolai A. (2014). Belyaev, Nikolai S. (ed.). Материалы для истории художеств в России (PDF) (in Russian). St. Petersburg: Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences. ISBN 978-5-336-00162-4. OCLC 952577337.
• Romm, Aleksandr G. [in Russian] (1954). "Борис Иванович Орловский". In Leonov, Alexei I. (ed.). Русское искусство: очерки о жизни и творчестве художников. Первая половина девятнадцатого века (in Russian). Moscow: Iskusstvo. pp. 379–398. OCLC 489749250.
• Shurygin, Yakov I. (1962). Борис Иванович Орловский, 1792–1837 (in Russian). Moscow: Iskusstvo. OCLC 67401092.
• Wrangel, Nikolai N. [in Russian] (1913). Grabar, Igor E. (ed.). История скульптуры. История русского искусства (in Russian). Vol. 5. Moscow: Joseph Knebel. pp. 199–206. OCLC 995561716.

External links

• Media related to Boris Orlovsky at Wikimedia Commons