About Leonid Vesnin
Lived 1880 – 1933 (aged 52). Leonid Vesnin was a Russian architect.
Leonid Aleksandrovich Vesnin (; – 8 October 1933) was a Russian and Soviet architect. He was the eldest of the Vesnin brothers, who were influential in developing Constructivist architecture.
Biography Leonid Aleksandrovich was born on in a merchant family in Nizhny Novgorod. He went to Moscow Practical Academy of Commercial Sciences from 1890 to 1899. In 1900 he got into Imperial Academy of Arts and was a student of Leon Benois until he graduated in 1909.
Selected work
1934 People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry Project 1930 Palace of Culture of the Proletarskie district, Moscow 1928 House of Film Actors, Moscow 1926 Mostorg Department store, Moscow 1924 Leningradskaya Pravda project 1922–23 Palace of Labor project
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Who was Leonid Vesnin?
Russian and Soviet architect (1880-1933)
When was Leonid Vesnin born?
Leonid Vesnin was born on 10 December 1880 in Nizhny Novgorod.
When did Leonid Vesnin die?
Leonid Vesnin died on 8 October 1933 in Moscow.
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Leonid Vesnin was an architect.
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Leonid Vesnin was Russian.
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