Leonid Vesnin
Leonid Aleksandrovich Vesnin, was a Russian and Soviet architect. The oldest of 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