Men-announcement for Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday, performed at the Moscow Chamber Theater in 1922-1923

Alexandr Alexandrovich Vesnin (Yurevets, 1883, Moscow, 1959) was the youngest member of the trio formed with his two brothers, Leonid (1880-1933) and Viktor (1882-1950). Together they worked on many Constructivist proposals, but the leadership of the youngest seems to be beyond doubt.

Like almost all the great figures of Constructivism, Vesnin was initially trained as a painter and designer. He studied with the painters Tsionglinsky and Kuon between 1907 and 1911, while taking courses at the St. Petersburg Institute of Civil Engineering, from which he graduated in 1912. He soon entered the studio of Vladimir Tatlin, and there he met Liubov Popova and other members of the embryonic artistic Avant-Garde...[+]