Brief biography of Krestovsky

Krestovsky during the gluing of the fragments of the “Demon’s head” M. in the year entered the Higher Art School at the Imperial Academy of Arts, which he graduated from Hugo Robertovich Zaleman for two years, and in the third year moved to the workshop of Vsevolod Vsevolodovich Opaev. C and C for years taught at the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after I.

he also worked as a restorer, headed work to protect the monuments of the sculpture of Leningrad after the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. After the war, he participated in the restoration of the palace and park ensemble of Petrodvorets. From the years, he worked in the Russian Museum under the leadership of a sculpture specialist G. restored a large number of museum sculptures made of marble, gypsum, wax and bronze-the works of B.

Rastrelli Statue of Neptune, I. Martos Amur and the tombstone of Gagarina, J. Rashett Jupiter-Gromovets, V. Demut-Malinovsky Russian stage, M. Zhille, F. Shchedrin, F. Kamensky, M. Antokolsky, A. Ober, A. Golubkina, A. Matveev, B. Korolev and other masters. In December, he carried out the most complicated restoration of hundreds of small fragments of one of the mentally ill visitors of the museum, gypsum sculpture M.

Krestovsky developed and applied his own original methodology for calculating the location of small fragments of this sculpture on the floor, creating a topographic cartogram of fragments. Then he gradually collected them and glued them. He also developed special methods for restoring the wax reliefs of F. Tolstoy, which were later published. The task of practical assistance to professional sculptors in the work to restore museum sculpture was devoted to the practical allowance of I.

Krestovsky “Marble Sculpture. The leadership of the restoration technique of marble sculpture ”, published in the Russian Museum in the city as well as in Krestovsky, published later on the generalization of his own practice, as well as the experience of predecessors and colleagues, outlined the main methods for restoring the work of sculpture. The methods and recipes of various materials necessary for gluing, replenishment and strengthening of sculpture from marble, limestone and gypsum were repeatedly used in creative activity.

Therefore, in his recommendations, he relied on the real capabilities of the sculptor of that time, the presence of the materials that could then be found.

In addition, I. Krestovsky sought to take into account the data of those research, development and provisions, at that time performed at the Leningrad Institute of Historical Technology, with which he collaborated, as a result of which the preface to his “leadership” was written by one of the leaders of the institute - N. Hundreds of fragments from the broken “Demon’s head”, a significant number of the recommendations that were progressive for that time and recovery methods should be noted Sculptures.

It must be recognized that his books containing a material about various methods, techniques and recipe for restoration of sculpture played in the future in the future in almost until the 10ths in the matter of its preservation and restoration in our country. He died on June 20 in Leningrad.