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Russian Ampir (Empire) style

  In the history of  European classicism of the end of XVIII - beginning of XIX century the special place belongs to Russia.
Intensive development of Russian art culture occurs on a background of large historical events. A victory over Napoleon, building in St. Petersburg of many  stately architectural ensembles, restoration of Moscow - all this has served as favorable circumstances for magnificent blossoming of Russian Empire style.

  Among the builders of new magnificent palaces, erected during this period in the capital and its vicinities, there were many of the foreign masters who have worked in classical style.  In the beginning,  furniture forms were not free from influence by French and English masters, but very soon Russian furniture art has developed its own independent character.
  The furniture made from exotic or domestic breeds of a tree (mahogany, karelian birch, walnut,  poplar, etc.) was often painted in white color and finished with gold vine in a groove. Alongside with magnificent smart furniture, the masters of Russian empire style also created simpler, convenient furniture for provincial manors and prosperous classes of urban population.
 Therefore - Russian Empire style - is the phenomenon original, though initial style elements also make it related toFrench and Central European "Empire"furniture forms. The furniture of Russian empire style features exclusive beauty, a subtlety of taste and wonderful decorative effect.
 
  Russian furniture of empire style very noticeably differs from foreign samples. Its forms are easier, more rough and in all, it is much more monumental.
In difference from France where ornaments for decoration were designed by Persie and Fontain, in Russia they were made by not less talented architects of Tom De Tomon and Rossi. Today in Russia you can find plenty of every possible samples of chairs, tables, armchairs, sofas and the cases designed by Rossi that are well preserved in it’s original condition. Many excellent samples of this furniture are stored in assemblies of the State Hermitage.

  The main distinctive feature of Russian furniture of empire style is the strict submission to laws of architecture, with usual for architecture partitioning in a horizontal and vertical direction. Separate lines are strictly calculated in each piece. It strengthens and emphasizes the general composition of a subject. The ornaments are concentrated in the separate certain places on rather small space of wide planes. This is what gives the Russian empire style its unique look and appeal. The golden grooves in Russian furniture soon disappear and it is replaced with the gilt mold made from plaster or a groove from a tree. As motives the elements popular during this time serve: a laurel wreath, the lyre symmetric pelmet, acanthus leaves , massive eagles, the griffons, the stylized swans with bent in a loop a neck, sphinxes and lions, chimeras and other fantastic animals with brawny bodies, sinewy legs, furious muzzles and the beaks – that seemed to have  fallen asleep in symmetry. 

  Motives of animals and monsters were very often used for armrests, handles and legs of sofas. Armchairs have either deaf, or through backs, their form was especially often made semicircular, in the form of a trough. The type of a round or octagonal coffee table on one rack in the form of a curbstone has widely been developed. Cases, lockers, secretaries, hills and mirrors were decorated with eaves, friezes and columns. The furniture of Russian empire style amazes an eye with beauty of the proportions and a coordination of separate parts, but at the same time it has some rigidity and absence of that comfort for which the furniture of XVIII century was so famous.

In Russian furniture of empire style it is necessary to distinguish some periods and three sharply differing versions.
 First - furniture produced under orders of a royal family and representatives of ruling class, with the forms, proportions and ornaments closer to French. It was the furniture made from solid mahogany or the Karelian birch, with the massive bronze overlays, produced in capital’s most modern workshops under the supervision of such masters like Hambs and Tour.
   Second - the furniture more modest on the material and scenery. It was the furniture which was made in workshops of local landlords, with more friable, as though swelled forms with the material for its manufacturing being the birch, an ash and a linden. In the forms it repeated samples of capital furniture, sometimes absolutely precisely, but more often with variants, according to individual taste of the customer. On this furniture bronze ornaments are replaced with a groove from a tree, quite flat but with enough detail and a stucco mold. Different parts were painted in black color or plated with gold.
  And, at last, the third version was the style altered for greater convenience. An empire style, which in the West - Germany, Austria and England - has received the name "Bidermeyer". Russian Bidermeyer was stricter and was closer to an empire style. Its distribution grasps the period 30-40-х years of XIX century. 

  It was especially popular among merchant class and was widely used by it. Samples of this version of Russian empire style are featured on such paintings as "Courtship of the major" in A.F.Fedotova's pictures, etc... This furniture (made to resemble mahogany) had many clearly national features and because of that, it stayed popular for the most of XIX century.