(b Wylkowyszki [now Volkovysk, Belarus], 21 Nov 1876; d Warsaw, Aug 1944). Polish architect, teacher and historian. He studied architecture under Leonty Benois at the Academy of Fine Arts, St Petersburg (1895–1901). Between 1903 and 1918 he taught art history at the Institute of Archaeology and the Academy of Fine Arts and architectural design at the Institute of Communications and the Women’s Institute of Technology, all in St Petersburg. During this period he also designed some notable buildings in Russia, using a wide range of styles. He employed Art Nouveau, for example, in his designs for the Pertsov apartment block (built 1910–13 by Stefan Galenzovsky and Ippolit Pietro) on Ligovsky Prospect but also turned to Gothic, Russian Orthodox and Islamic architecture for inspiration. Particularly important for his artistic development were the design of the Sytny Market (1906; with Marian Peretyatkovich; built 1912–13 under Lalewicz’s supervision) and the complex of the Pokotilova house and apartment block (1909) on Stone Bridge (Kamennoostrovsky Prospect). The motif of the triple arch became a particular characteristic of his work, used in such buildings as the Martens House (1911–12) on Nevsky Prospect, a spacious four-storey building in reinforced concrete with a mainly glass façade, and the Pokotilova apartment block, a two-storey structure with details borrowed from Italian Renaissance examples. In the second decade of the century he produced some elegant variations of the Palladian style, for example in a house at 7 Panteleymon Street (now Pestel’ Street).

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