Aleksandr Lavrentyevich Vitberg was a Russian Neoclassical architect of Swedish stock. As a young man he was a member of Alexandr Labzin's Masonic lodge, the "Dying Sphinx', studying Boehmist theosophy. The lodge, which had been the first to reopen, in 1800, was ordered closed in 1822.

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  • Aleksandr Lavrentyevich Vitberg was a Russian Neoclassical architect of Swedish stock. As a young man he was a member of Alexandr Labzin's Masonic lodge, the "Dying Sphinx', studying Boehmist theosophy. The lodge, which had been the first to reopen, in 1800, was ordered closed in 1822. Vitberg won a design competition and in 1817 had the satisfaction of witnessing groundbreaking ceremony for his neoclassical Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, a monument to the Russian resistance in the 1812 War, for which Vitberg was forced to change faith to the Russian Orthodox Church to meet the stipulations of Tsar Alexander I. Though construction on the Sparrow Hills was commenced in 1826, a new tsar, Nicholas I later abandoned the "Masonic" plan for a less "Roman Catholic" neo-Byzantine construction. The architect was accused of bribery and exiled to Vyatka, a city in the Ural Mountains. There his most successful work was accomplished, among which were his monumental gates for the Alexander garden (1836) and the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral (1839–1848). A fellow-exile there was Alexander Herzen, who made friends with Vitberg, portrayed him sympathetically in My Past and Thoughts, and was briefly influenced by Vitberg's strain of mystical thought. When he was allowed to return to Moscow, Vitberg found little work and died in poverty and official neglect. The dawn of Russian neoclassical revival in the late 19th century contributed to a reappraisal of his architectural legacy. An exhibition commemorating his output, set in the historical context of his generation, was mounted in Stockholm: Alexander Witberg (1787-1855). En Arkitekurhistorisk Installation Stockholm, 1993-1994.
  • Alexander Lawrentjewitsch Witberg war ein russischer neoklassizistischer Architekt und Maler schwedischer Abstammung. Er gewann den Wettbewerb um die Gestaltung der Christ-Erlöser-Kathedrale in Moskau. Witberg war mit Alexander Herzen während der Verbannungszeit in Wjatka befreundet.
  • Aleksandr Lavrentievitch Vitberg (en russe, Александр Лаврентьевич Витберг) était un artiste et architecte russe d'origine suédoise, né à Saint-Pétersbourg le 26 janvier 1787 (15 janvier du calendrier julien) et décédé à Saint-Pétersbourg le 24 janvier 1855 (12 janvier).
  • Александр Лаврентьевич Витберг — выдающийся российский художник и архитектор шведского происхождения, автор первоначального проекта храма Христа Спасителя в Москве, автор проекта Александро-Невского собора в Вятке. Академик Академии художеств. Член петербургской масонской ложи «Умирающий сфинкс». Близкий друг русского философа и революционера Александра Герцена. Крестник императора Александра I.
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  • Aleksandr Lavrentyevich Vitberg was a Russian Neoclassical architect of Swedish stock. As a young man he was a member of Alexandr Labzin's Masonic lodge, the "Dying Sphinx', studying Boehmist theosophy. The lodge, which had been the first to reopen, in 1800, was ordered closed in 1822.
  • Alexander Lawrentjewitsch Witberg war ein russischer neoklassizistischer Architekt und Maler schwedischer Abstammung. Er gewann den Wettbewerb um die Gestaltung der Christ-Erlöser-Kathedrale in Moskau. Witberg war mit Alexander Herzen während der Verbannungszeit in Wjatka befreundet.
  • Aleksandr Lavrentievitch Vitberg (en russe, Александр Лаврентьевич Витберг) était un artiste et architecte russe d'origine suédoise, né à Saint-Pétersbourg le 26 janvier 1787 (15 janvier du calendrier julien) et décédé à Saint-Pétersbourg le 24 janvier 1855 (12 janvier).
  • Александр Лаврентьевич Витберг — выдающийся российский художник и архитектор шведского происхождения, автор первоначального проекта храма Христа Спасителя в Москве, автор проекта Александро-Невского собора в Вятке. Академик Академии художеств.
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  • Aleksandr Vitberg
  • Alexander Lawrentjewitsch Witberg
  • Aleksandr Vitberg
  • Витберг, Александр Лаврентьевич
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