Alexander Grabovetskiy
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Alexander Grabovetskiy with award-winning piece, Wall Decoration.
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| Born | Dimitrovgrad, Russia |
| Residence | South Florida |
| Occupation | Master Woodcarver |
| Spouse(s) | married |
Alexander Grabovetskiy (July 4, 1973) is a Russian-American Master Wood Carver.
Grabovetskiy was recognized as the 2012 International Wood Carver of the year, and his piece Wall Decoration was awarded first place. His work utilizes the same approaches used for centuries by master woodcarvers, including techniques employed by Grinling Gibbons.[1][2]
In 2015 Alexander Grabovetskiy was Editors’ Choice to be Awarded with Woodworking Excellence in category: Turnings, Carvings & Objets d’Art by Popular Woodworking Magazine
Biography
Grabovetskiy was born on July 4, 1973 in the Russian town of Dimitrovgrad. His grandfather taught him basic woodcarving techniques at six-years old, and at 16 he was taken on as an apprentice by renowned carver Vladimir Tokarev.[1][2]
Due to his faith and his refusal to enlist in the Soviet Armed Forces, Grabovetskiy was imprisoned by the Soviet authorities. He was freed after two years as part of an Amnesty International campaign for prisoners of faith incarcerated by the USSR. In prison he began a business making furniture and kitchen sets, and finding no work upon his release at the age of 21 years, he continued on to run his own woodworking enterprise.[1][3][4]
In 1996, Grabovetskiy immigrated as a political refugee to the United States together with his wife Nadia and their 10-month-old son. The woodworking and custom home building business that he established in Goshen, Indiana, Aalmark LLC, employed a number of expert craftsmen who were also Christian refugees from the former Soviet Union. He currently works in South Florida.[2][3][4]
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- 20th-century Russian people
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- Living people
- American cabinetmakers
- American Christian clergy
- American evangelicals
- American woodcarvers
- Furniture makers
- People from Boca Raton, Florida
- People from Charlotte, North Carolina
- People from Goshen, Indiana
- People from Dimitrovgrad, Russia
- People from Union County, North Carolina
- Prisoners and detainees of the Soviet Union
- Refugees in the United States
- Russian emigrants to the United States
- Russian artists
- Russian Christians
- Russian engravers
- Russian evangelicals
- Russian refugees
- Russian sculptors
- 20th-century Russian sculptors
