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Dr. Tatiana Efrussi is an architecture and art historian as well as an artist. She was born in Moscow and is currently based in Paris. Since 2010, she has been researching the influence of political ideas on architectural practice and urban realities in both Soviet and German contexts in the 20th century. In 2011, she graduated from the Department of Art History of the Moscow State Lomonosov University with a paper on connections between Bauhaus and the USSR. As a researcher at the Museum of the Moscow Architectural Institute (MARKhI), she curated the exhibition 'Bauhaus in Moscow' in 2012. Her doctoral research dedicated to Hannes Meyer's life in the USSR during the early Stalinist period was supported by the Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Scholarship Fund. She defended her in 2020 at the Department of Architectural Theory and Design, University of Kassel in Germany. In parallel, Efrussi continued her art practice and studies and, in 2021, graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris school.From 2018 to 2019, Efrussi collaborated with the 'Bauhaus Imaginista' project, initiated by Marion von Osten and Grant Watson. In 2019-2020, she worked as a research consultant for the traveling exhibition 'The City of Tomorrow', curated by Ruben Arevshatyan and Georg Schölhammer. Efrussi has published essays on topics including Hannes Meyer, the Bauhaus, Soviet architecture, and contemporary Russian urbanism in scholarly collections and magazines in Russia, Germany, and Switzerland.
Efrussi's ""Hannes Meyer: Soviet Architect. Life and Work in the USSR, 1930-1936"" constitutes a critical contribution to the Bauhaus literature. Efrussi mined the post-Soviet archive, uncovering important details about Meyer's projects for the USSR that had previously gone unnoticed. The resultant book fills in a major gap in our knowledge about Meyer's work in the 1930s and forces us to rethink our broader understanding of the Bauhaus project. Prof. Dr. Angelina Lucento Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies Duke University Based on meticulous work with archival sources, Tatiana Efrussi's book painstakingly documents the activity of Hannes Meyer in the Soviet Union, demonstrating how, designing and planning for Moscow, Izhevsk, Birobidzhan and elsewhere, the second director of the Bauhaus turned into a 'Soviet' architect, embroiled in the politics of architecture in the 1930s USSR. Dr. Alla Vronskaya Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture Department of Architecture, City- and Landscape Planning University of Kassel, Germany Tatiana Efrussi has presented the definitive publication on the work of Swiss architect Hannes Meyer in the Soviet Union from 1930 to 1936. Following his dismissal as Bauhaus director in Dessau in 1930, Meyer went to Moscow on his own initiative with a whole group of loyal students and partners. Based on in-depth archival research, Efrussi now characterizes Meyer not only as an emigrant in the Soviet Union but also as a ""Soviet architect"" - and can thus not only fill in blind spots in his work biography but also make him visible as an actor in the architectural-political debates and power struggles of these years of Stalinist upheaval. Engaged, polemical, humiliated and forgotten for a long time - but remained true to himself as an internationalist and regionalist. Dr. Thomas Flierl www.thomasflierl.de
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