The art of architecture restoration

To 10th anniversary of the scientific restoration centre “Restavrator-M”

March 09 — April 09 2005
The Enfilade of the Main Building

 “Restavrator-M” is a well-known scientific and design institution, its staff has completed a considerable quantity of research and restoration projects for architectural monuments. “Restavrator-M” had prepared all documentation for restoration of the Aleksandrovskiy Hall of the Great Kremlin Palace in 1996—1999. During past 10 years professionals of this practice have been restoring other buildings in the Moscow Kremlin — the Belfry of Ivan the Great, the Armoury, the Cathedrals of the Assumption and of the Annunciation.

“Restavrator-M” is also responsible for restoration projects of many religious and public monuments of Moscow: the Church of St. Nicholas in Golutvino, the Church of the Ascension at the Gorokhovo Pole, the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin in the Rozhdestvenskiy Monastery, the mansion of Prince Gagarin in the Armyanskiy Pereulok, the mansion of Prince Dolgorukiy in the Pokrovka Street, the building of the Board of Trustees in the Solyanka Street, facades of the Malyi Manezh exhibition hall in the Georgievskiy Pereulok, facades of the lesser building of the GUM store and of many others.

According to the centre’s projects, the dome of the Moscow choral Synagogue has been reconstructed, now restoration of its facades and interiors is being carried out.
Many theatres’ historical buildings were reconstructed while using the “Restavrator-M”’s plans, among them the Theatre of operetta, the Molodezhniy Theatre at the Teatral’naya Square and the Pushkin Theatre. Now the staff of the centre is carrying out restoration and project work — a part of the major reconstruction and restoration program of the Bolshoi Theatre.
The director and the chief architect of the practice is Elena V. Stepanova, the Honorary architect of Russia.

“Restavrator-M” has created a Centre of new technologies and restoration in collaboration with the Russian Academy of Science. The staff of this new institution has first recreated in its entirety the historical collection of the colour photographs by S. M. Prokudin-Gorsky dating back to the beginning of the 20th century.
On display there are examples of the research and project documentation — blueprints, models, photographs that give to a visitor an opportunity to look “inside” the process of the restoration researches and taking work decisions.

 

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