Noah Trotsky's 1918–1919 Academic Projects as a Document of His Authorial Style: to Description of the Early Stages of the Architect's Creative Biography

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the earliest stage of the creative work of Noah Abramovich Trotsky (1895–1940), one of the most significant Leningrad architects of the Interbellum. The hypothesis is that the student projects created by N.A. Trotsky at Pegoskhum (formerly the Higher Art School of the Imperial Academy of Arts) are a legal piece of his architectural legacy, because the signature style is already shown in them. Despite a period of experiences within modernistic style during the second half of the 1920s, N.A. Trotsky remained faithful to the credo formed by him in the latest stage of education. The point is not only in following classical architecture but also in refining its image through a romantic exaggeration of proportions and a special forced monumentality.