History of Saint-Petersburg: Exhibition “The author of one letter”, dedicated to the architect A. P. Aplaksin

The exhibition “The author of one letter” presented the work of now-forgotten but talented and active Petersburg architect A. P. Aplaksin (1879-1931), opened on February 8, 2013 at the Museum of Urban Sculpture in St. Petersburg.

A. P. Aplaksin is one of the most prominent representatives of the “neo-Russian style” in church architecture, a connoisseur of ancient art. The title of the exhibition refers to the letter of A. P. Aplaksin, dated April 20, 1919.

In St. Petersburg and Leningrad region on his projects have been built dozens of temples and public buildings. He has developed and implemented the project of restoration of the Kazan and the St. Sampson's Cathedrals in St. Petersburg, the Cathedral of St. Nicholas, the Monastery of Staraya Ladoga, the Yamburg Cathedral of St. Catherine, the South Chapel in the church of the Nativity of the Virgin in New Ladoga.

The active member of the “Society of the protection and conservation in Russia of the monuments of art and antiquities”, A. P. Aplaksin initiated the establishment of the “Commission for registration of monuments of art and antiquities of St. Petersburg Province”.

The exhibition for the first time features dozens of architectural projects of churches in the region, as well as unique documents and photographs from the archives of A. P. Aplaksin who provided the descendants of the architect. Seven models of temples by projects of A. P. Aplaksin enliven the imagination images of the former Russia.