Grigorii Revzin

Biography

Grigory Revzin, a graduate of Moscow State University’s history faculty, with a Candidate degree in Art History, is the author of several books and more than 50 scholarly articles on the theory and history of architecture. In 1992 he published the first monograph in Russia devoted to Neoclassicism. He taught History of 19th-Century Russian Art in the history of Russian art department of Moscow State University for 10 years.

From 1996 to 2000 he held the post of deputy editor in chief of Proyekt Rossiya, and in 2001 he was in charge of Proyekt Klassika. He has worked on Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Segodnya, Architectural Digest (AD) and Gentlemen’s Quarterly (GQ), and since 1996 he has been an observer in the cultural section of Kommersant. In 2001 and 2008 he was the curator of the Russian pavilion at the Venice Biennale. In 2011 he became a member of the Skolkovo Foundation’s Urban Planning Council.