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Grigorije Samojlov
Grigorije Ivanovič Samojlov (Russian Cyrillic: Григорий Иванович Самойлов; Taganrog, Imperial Russia, 8 September 1904 - Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia, 15 October 1989) was a Russian architect, designer and painter who lived and worked in Serbia. He was one of the many academically trained Russian émigrés who after settling in Serbia contributed the architectural landscape of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. He built in the spirit of academism, Serbo-Byzantine style, modernism and art deco. He distinguished himself not only with his high skills in designing various types of building, from monumental public buildings to family houses, but also as the author of some of the most beautiful interiors of Belgrade palaces of this period. Also, he painted the likenesses of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia, and scientist Milutin Milanković among the most notable, as well as teaching the art of design and painting.
He is the author of numerous works such as the chapel of Jovan Savić at Novo Groblje (Belgrade New Cemetery), the iconostasis and interior of the former Church of the Holy Trinity (now the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Banja Luka), the Church of the Holy Archangel Gabriel at Topčider Cemetery (1939), the factory and villas of the Teokarović family, as well as the Church of the Nativity of St. John in Vučje, Palace of the Pension Fund of Officials and Employees of the NationalBank of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1938) in Terazije, with cinema "Belgrade", since 1975 converted into Theater on Terazije, the building of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and the Faculty of Technology in Belgrade.
He was born on 8 September 1904, in Taganrog, a small town on the coast of the Sea of Azov, in a wealthy Russian, Cossack family. He studied painting in high school with the famous painter Serafima Blonskaya (Russian: Серафима Блонская). At the end of the Civil War in Russia in 1921, when he was 17, he emigrated with his father to the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Upon his arrival, his father died, and he then continued his education at the Don Military School in Bileća, where he graduated, after which he enrolled in studies at the Architectural Department of the Technical Faculty at the University of Belgrade. He graduated in 1930.
For his diploma work, he designed the "Yugoslav Pantheon", conceived as a national monument, in a dominant place in the city, whose silhouette could be seen from a distance. The work was an example of the role of the neo-Byzantine style in forming the identity of the Yugoslav nation, by transposing the Serbian national style to all South Slavs, replacing the cross on the high central dome with a sculpture of victory, holding laurel wreaths in its hands. Although the project according to the program was not actually conceived as a Christian temple, a chandelier and a masonry iconostasis were projected inside. The work was included in the annual exhibition, which featured about forty students of architecture and was considered one of the best.
Among the first public projects in which he applied elements of neo-Byzantine architecture is the competition project for the building of the Railway Station in Skopje, in 1931.
In the beginning, he worked as an associate of the architect Milutin Borisavljević, and later he became an assistant to Professor Aleksandar Deroko in the subject Byzantine Architecture. At the same time, he worked in the office of architect Aleksandar Đorđević, then a recognized architect and representative of French academism. Đorđević hired Samojlov as an associate in the development of several large projects, such as the Belgrade Stock Exchange and the Beli Dvor. In addition, they became so close that Đorđević was the best man at the wedding of Samojlov and Danica Ljujić.
He passed the state exam in 1933 when he obtained a permit for independent work. The first independent achievement of the same year was a building on the corner of Skenderbegova and Dositejeva streets in the spirit of modernism, and one of the best achievements was a villa in Pushkinova Street (then Gladstone Street) in Senjak (once owned by Ljubica Radenković, and now one of the residences of the United States Embassy) in a combination of medieval Serbian-Byzantine and Romanesque elements, for which he received the award of the city of Belgrade, as the best architectural solution.
In the middle of 1936, when a competition was announced for the conceptual design of the iconostasis for the Banja Luka church of the Holy Trinity, as an assistant at the Architectural Department of the Technical Faculty of Belgrade University, "he considered it his duty to apply for the competition." In September of the same year, he was awarded the first prize, and in addition to the iconostasis, he gave a solution for chandeliers and carpentry. The works were completed in 1939 when the cathedral was consecrated.
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Grigorije Samojlov
Grigorije Ivanovič Samojlov (Russian Cyrillic: Григорий Иванович Самойлов; Taganrog, Imperial Russia, 8 September 1904 - Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia, 15 October 1989) was a Russian architect, designer and painter who lived and worked in Serbia. He was one of the many academically trained Russian émigrés who after settling in Serbia contributed the architectural landscape of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. He built in the spirit of academism, Serbo-Byzantine style, modernism and art deco. He distinguished himself not only with his high skills in designing various types of building, from monumental public buildings to family houses, but also as the author of some of the most beautiful interiors of Belgrade palaces of this period. Also, he painted the likenesses of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia, and scientist Milutin Milanković among the most notable, as well as teaching the art of design and painting.
He is the author of numerous works such as the chapel of Jovan Savić at Novo Groblje (Belgrade New Cemetery), the iconostasis and interior of the former Church of the Holy Trinity (now the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Banja Luka), the Church of the Holy Archangel Gabriel at Topčider Cemetery (1939), the factory and villas of the Teokarović family, as well as the Church of the Nativity of St. John in Vučje, Palace of the Pension Fund of Officials and Employees of the NationalBank of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1938) in Terazije, with cinema "Belgrade", since 1975 converted into Theater on Terazije, the building of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and the Faculty of Technology in Belgrade.
He was born on 8 September 1904, in Taganrog, a small town on the coast of the Sea of Azov, in a wealthy Russian, Cossack family. He studied painting in high school with the famous painter Serafima Blonskaya (Russian: Серафима Блонская). At the end of the Civil War in Russia in 1921, when he was 17, he emigrated with his father to the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Upon his arrival, his father died, and he then continued his education at the Don Military School in Bileća, where he graduated, after which he enrolled in studies at the Architectural Department of the Technical Faculty at the University of Belgrade. He graduated in 1930.
For his diploma work, he designed the "Yugoslav Pantheon", conceived as a national monument, in a dominant place in the city, whose silhouette could be seen from a distance. The work was an example of the role of the neo-Byzantine style in forming the identity of the Yugoslav nation, by transposing the Serbian national style to all South Slavs, replacing the cross on the high central dome with a sculpture of victory, holding laurel wreaths in its hands. Although the project according to the program was not actually conceived as a Christian temple, a chandelier and a masonry iconostasis were projected inside. The work was included in the annual exhibition, which featured about forty students of architecture and was considered one of the best.
Among the first public projects in which he applied elements of neo-Byzantine architecture is the competition project for the building of the Railway Station in Skopje, in 1931.
In the beginning, he worked as an associate of the architect Milutin Borisavljević, and later he became an assistant to Professor Aleksandar Deroko in the subject Byzantine Architecture. At the same time, he worked in the office of architect Aleksandar Đorđević, then a recognized architect and representative of French academism. Đorđević hired Samojlov as an associate in the development of several large projects, such as the Belgrade Stock Exchange and the Beli Dvor. In addition, they became so close that Đorđević was the best man at the wedding of Samojlov and Danica Ljujić.
He passed the state exam in 1933 when he obtained a permit for independent work. The first independent achievement of the same year was a building on the corner of Skenderbegova and Dositejeva streets in the spirit of modernism, and one of the best achievements was a villa in Pushkinova Street (then Gladstone Street) in Senjak (once owned by Ljubica Radenković, and now one of the residences of the United States Embassy) in a combination of medieval Serbian-Byzantine and Romanesque elements, for which he received the award of the city of Belgrade, as the best architectural solution.
In the middle of 1936, when a competition was announced for the conceptual design of the iconostasis for the Banja Luka church of the Holy Trinity, as an assistant at the Architectural Department of the Technical Faculty of Belgrade University, "he considered it his duty to apply for the competition." In September of the same year, he was awarded the first prize, and in addition to the iconostasis, he gave a solution for chandeliers and carpentry. The works were completed in 1939 when the cathedral was consecrated.