ROMANTIC TRENDS IN ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITION OF THE DON REGION OF THE LATE XIX – EARLY XX CENTURY

The article is devoted to the study of architectural competition practice on the territory of the Don region during the heyday of romantic trends in Russian architecture of the second half of the XIX – early XX centuries. This period was a time of rapid industrial and economic development of the cities of the Lower Don and the Sea of Azov, such as Rostov-on-don and Taganrog. A sharp increase in residents, their well-being and the expansion of the style of regional architecture contributed to the activation of construction. The examples of some of the competition entries are studied in the article. The problem of this research is to identify romantic trends in the regional architectural and construction practice of the Don region of the late XIX – early XX centuries, by analyzing the competitive proposals of architects. The authors propose a new approach to the problem of forming stylistic trends in the region, where an important role is played by the architectural competition as a platform for introducing popular stylistic ideas into the public consciousness. The studied issue of the manifestation of romanticism ideas in the regional competitive architectural and construction practice allows to conclude that romantic tendencies are in project proposals presented at architectural competitions of the Don region. There is a penetration of current and popular trends of romanticism in the regional architectural and construction practice.