ABSTRACT
Architect, Russia Among Russian architects at the turn of the 20th century, Fedor Shekhtel is unique not
only in the range of accomplishment over some three decades but also in the degree to which his work embodied the cultural aspirations of his era. As no other architect, Shekhtel enlarged and gave coherent expression to the creative possibilities of the modern style, yet after 1908 he retreated from modernism to a reworking of traditional forms in Russian architecture.
