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Source: Moscow Government – Government of Moscow –
Specialists have restored mosaic panels with the faces of St. Olga and St. Panteleimon on the facades of the buildings of the former St. Olga Children’s Hospital. This is one of the stages of complex work to preserve the architectural ensemble of the late 19th century, located at 2a Orlovo-Davydovsky Lane. It includes four buildings and a park.
A mosaic panel with the face of the healer Panteleimon decorates the facade of one of the buildings (it once housed an outpatient department), and an icon of St. Olga decorates another building (this building historically housed the main hospital building). All buildings in the ensemble are made of red brick in the eclectic style according to the designs of architects Konstantin Bykovsky and Vasily Barkov.
“The smalt mosaic panels are an important part of the facade decoration of the former hospital buildings. Special attention was paid to their restoration. The icons are made of 20 thousand fragments of colored opaque glass, which are dated 1897-1899. The icon of St. Panteleimon is well preserved, so the work was carried out directly on the facade. And the condition of the panel with the image of St. Olga was critical, so it was dismantled and moved to a restoration workshop. There, specialists carefully cleaned the icon, made up for the losses, and then returned it to its historical place,” said the head of the Department of Cultural Heritage of the city of Moscow.
The comprehensive restoration of the architectural ensemble, the first in its entire existence, began in 2022. At the same time, they began to put the historical icons in order. Specialists did a large amount of work: they selected and agreed on the restoration technique, conducted a chemical analysis of the mosaic material at the Ilya Glazunov Russian Academy of Painting.
It is planned to fully complete all work for the architectural ensemble of the former St. Olga Children’s Hospital in 2025. It is a cultural heritage site of regional significance, so the restoration is being carried out under the supervision of specialists from the Moscow City Department of Cultural Heritage.
The complex of buildings is located in the Meshchansky district. It was built according to the design of the architect Konstantin Mikhailovich Bykovsky using funds from Count Sergei Vladimirovich Orlov-Davydov. This is how he decided to perpetuate the memory of his beloved mother, Olga Orlova-Davydova. The institution was named in honor of her patroness, Saint Olga.
It was a small hospital town, on the territory of which there was a two-story brick building with one-story buildings adjoining it on the sides, as well as several wooden buildings of the outpatient building, auxiliary services and a chapel.
In May 1885, the foundation stone of a large stone building for a children’s hospital was laid; outpatient treatment began in December 1886, and an inpatient department was opened in January 1888.
Ten years after the medical institution was founded, Count Sergei Orlov-Davydov petitioned the committee of the Imperial Philanthropic Society to begin expanding the hospital. The design for the new buildings was commissioned from Moscow architect Vasily Vasilyevich Barkov. The wooden buildings were replaced with stone ones. At the same time, mosaic panels with images of the healer Panteleimon and the patroness of the hospital, Saint Olga, appeared on the facades of the buildings. The grand opening of the new buildings took place on December 11, 1899.
Thus, by the beginning of the 20th century, the ensemble of stone buildings of the St. Olga Children’s Hospital was formed in the then widespread style of red-brick eclecticism. A characteristic feature of this architectural trend is decorative elements made of white brick and stone.
Over the past 14 years, more than 2.3 thousand cultural heritage sites have been restored in Moscow. The restoration of the historic buildings of the former St. Olga Children’s Hospital in Orlovo-Davydovsky Lane fully complies with the goals and objectives of the national project “Culture”.
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