Ippolit Vladislavsky-Padalka – a Talented Creator of Parks in Southern Ukraineand Bessarabia

Abstract

The article presents and analyses the work of Ippolit Vladislavski-Padalka (1872–1920), a landscape architect who worked in Southern Ukraine and Moldova at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. The artistic expression of the parks he created, their complex development determined by historical circumstances, was and remains significant and relevant in the context of the knowledge of the development of European park art. Several aspects of the history of park art were the object and goal of our study. The principles of park creation applied by Vladislavski-Padalka in the unfavourable climate and arid environment of the steppe zone correspond to the artistic means of expression and trends in European park art of the creative era. It is precisely these creative efforts, knowledge of technologies for planting in the steppe and their persistent implementation that earn the park creator European fame.