Artistic Heritage of Architect Ivan Zhaltousky
CThe text is devoted to the personality of Ivan Zhaltousky, a genius architect, founder of neoclassic style of the period of person cult in the USSR who came from a noble family which lived in Polessye. His creative work became unique in the world history of architecture through the scale of his city construction programs and due to his creative longevity. Greater part of the article is devoted to the architect’s biography, which was born in Pinsk, finished classical gymnasium, as well as to the stages of his creative growth. Pointing out several facts of the creative biography of the world famous architect, S.Khareusky singles out Belarusian context in them through the prism of general Soviet cultural context of the 1930-1950-ies.The author suggests analyzing once more such part of our architectural heritage as neoclassicism of the mid XX century, which was little studied. The personality of our compatriot Ivan Zhaltousky who was the beginner of this construction direction, whose taste and talent shaped the look of cities in the whole USSR, is not yet properly understood in Belarusian Historiography. At the same time, the role of this great creator in establishing Belarusian architectural school and in shaping the look of its cities is not yet properly explored in Belarusian art studies.Stages of creative evolution of the architect are singled out in the article; attention is drawn to his teaching and public activity. However the author focuses on ideal and artistic aspects of the activity of Ivan Zhaltousky as well as on buildings in Belarus in the construction of which the architect himself participated.