Biography of Galina Semenova

In the city of Repin with a degree in History and Theory of Fine Arts. With the city of Semenova, she professionally engaged in the research of architectural monuments and garden art, as well as issues of urban planning of the Pushkin, Pavlovsky and Vasileostrovsky districts.

She made a great contribution to the study of the history of the construction and decoration of the Alexander Palace in Tsarskoye Selo. From the memoirs of T., both in her life happened. And the more disasters occurred, the more discoveries she succeeded. By the age of thirteen, a girl born in the Belarusian place of Silichi probably, from the word “power”, was left without parents.

Then - a boarding school, work combined with studies at the Repin Institute of the Academy of Arts. A difficult family life brought both grief and joy, embodied in the girl Vasilisa and boy Ivan. The important purpose of Galina-to serve Petersburg-began with the place of personal habitat: first in the residential building of the Peter and Paul Fortress, then on the 6th line of the Vasilievsky Island.

With what dedication she worked in the State Inspectorate, and then the Committee for the Protection of Monuments for 29 years! Historical certificates, passports, examinations, discussions, field examinations, conclusions on the historical objects of the Vasilievsky Island and the complex of the Pulkovo observatory, Pushkin and Pavlovsk demanded the highest qualification of the art critic, architect, historian and photographer in one person.

She returned to the monuments the lost dignity, and she herself never lost it with official changes, nor in an acute polemic, showing both the tact and the necessary stubbornness. The name Galina in Greek means silence and calm, which she needs so much as a scientist who wrote serious works: “Tsarskoye village. Familiar and unfamiliar ”,“ Cathedral Square in Tsarskoye Selo ”,“ Architecture of Wooden Houses ”,“ Tsarist Hell.

Album of phototypes. " Participate G. Semenova in the scientific publications of KGIOP “Monuments of Architecture and History” by Vasileostrovsky, Petrograd and Admiralteysky significantly replenished the scientific strata of St. Petersburg Science. Numerous articles in collections and magazines, speeches at conferences, on radio and television followed without any exaltation of their discoveries and new attributes.

The Association of Arts of the Union of Artists appreciated its works dedicated to the tsarist village, as the best on this topic over the past 50 years. And there was a museum meeting with the tsarist village: Galya was invited to work in the Alexander Palace, where she managed to revive a lot of Russian history not only with her research, but also to enlightenment.

She was a participant and initiator of the first after the departure of the imperial family of Molebn in the Alexander Palace. It was she who managed to restore the history of the house church. Semenova G. Abstracts of the conference reports. Novikov Yu. Research materials. Leningrad - Petersburg of the twentieth century. The space of communication: Materials X Tsarskoye Selsk.

The principles of the formation of the historical borders of the monuments of G. Kirikov; comp. History of the Guards Rifle Division: Sat. Cathedral Square in Tsarskoye Selo. Architecture of wooden houses from the cycle "Walking around the city of Pushkin." Palace V. Tsarskoye Selo. Familiar and unfamiliar. Contact and conflict of worldviews: Materials of the XV TsarskoyeSelsk. Encyclopedia in 3 tons, design and construction of St.

Petersburg. House S. Sukhanov I. Admiralteysky district. Baroque and classicism. From the palace to the museum: Sat.