Leonid Sherwood

Leonid Vladimirovich Sherwood or Shervud (Russian: Леони́д Влади́мирович Ше́рвуд; 28 April 1871 – 28 August 1954) was a Russian sculptor and architect.

Leonid Sherwood
Леонид Владимирович Шервуд
Born	(1871-04-28)April 28, 1871 Moscow, Russian Empire
Died	August 28, 1954(1954-08-28) (aged 83) Leningrad, Soviet Union
Resting place	Volkovo Cemetery, St. Petersburg
Alma mater	Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture
Known for	Sculpture
Notable work	Monument to Stepan Makarov, 1913 The Sentry, 1933
Awards	Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Honoured Artist of the RSFSR

Biography

Sherwood was born in Moscow. He was of English descent, his grandfather Joseph Sherwood having been an English engineer who emigrated to Russia. His father was the architect Vladimir Osipovich Sherwood and his brother was the architect Vladimir Vladimirovich Sherwood.

Statue of Admiral Stepan Makarov, created by Leonid Sherwood, on Anchor Square in front of the St. Nicholas Naval Cathedral, Kronstadt

Leonid Sherwood was responsible for the Makarov Monument, a memorial to Admiral Stepan Makarov, killed during the Russo-Japanese war. It was erected in 1913 on Anchor Square in front of the St. Nicholas Naval Cathedral in Kronstadt. Sherwood chose to use as the pedestal a 160-ton granite rock originally cut for a monument to Paul I in front of Kazan Cathedral, which sank in transit to Saint Petersburg. The base of the rock is engraved with the words: "Remember the War".

Sherwood was one of the first sculptors to be involved in monumental Soviet sculpture after the Revolution of 1917 and was responsible for many official busts and monumental statues. He was also the architect of the Swallow's Nest, a decorative castle in the Crimea.

Sherwood was educated at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1886–91) and the Imperial Academy of Arts, St Petersburg (1892–1898). He was a pupil of Vladimir Aleksandrovich Beklemishev. He was an exchange student in Paris in 1899–1900, where he became a pupil of Rodin. Returning to Russia, he lived in Petrograd and was employed by Vladimir Lenin for monumental sculpture. He taught sculpture at the Academy of Arts in Petrograd. Among his pupils was Sarra Lebedeva.

Sherwood was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour and was made a Distinguished Artist of the RSFSR. He died in Leningrad, aged 83.

Publications

• Sherwood, Leonid V. (1937). Путь скульптора [The Path of the Sculptor] (in Russian). Leningrad, Moscow: Iskusstvo. OCLC 1246547078.
• Sherwood, Leonid V.; et al. (2021). Sherwood, Viktoriya L. (ed.). Леонид Шервуд. Путь скульптора (in Russian). Saint Petersburg: St. Petersburg Union of Writers. ISBN 978-5-4311-0238-7. OCLC 1288456521.

Further reading

• Abolina, Raisa Ya. (1996). "Leonid (Vladimirovich) Shervud". In Turner, Jane (ed.). The Dictionary of Art. Vol. 28. New York: Grove's Dictionaries. pp. 596–597. ISBN 1-884446-00-0. OCLC 1033666104 – via the Internet Archive.
• Karpova, Yelena V.; Belsky, Pavel Ye. (2023). Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg (ed.). Скульптор Леонид Шервуд (exhibition catalogue) (in Russian). Saint Petersburg: Palace Editions. ISBN 978-5-93332-739-4. OCLC 1373778725.
• Rogachevsky, Vladimir M. (1955). Леонид Владимирович Шервуд (in Russian). Moscow: Sovetskiy Khudozhnik. OCLC 253731366.

External links

• Shulgina, Darya P. (30 November 2023). "Шервуд Леонид Владимирович". Большая российская энциклопедия (in Russian). Moscow: Bolshaya Rossiyskaya Entsiklopediya. Archived from the original on 15 June 2024.