LENINGRAD SCHOOL, CIRCLE OF IVAN FOMIN, 1920S–1930S Study of a colonnade

sanguine on paper 54.5 x 40 cm Ivan Alexandrovich Fomin (1872–1936) was a Russian architect and educator who began his career in Moscow working in the Art Nouveau style. After moving to Saint Petersburg in 1905, he became one of the leading figures of the Neoclassical Revival in Russian architecture. Following the Russian Revolution of 1917, Fomin developed a Soviet adaptation of Neoclassicism and became one of the principal architects associated with the early phase of Stalinist architecture, often referred to as postconstructivism.