Nicholas Benois

Nicholas Benois
Николай Бенуа
Portrait by Viktor Dumitrashko, 1901; Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg
Born(1813-07-01)July 1, 1813
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
DiedDecember 11, 1898(1898-12-11) (aged 85)
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Resting placeChurch of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary [ru], Saint Petersburg (burial lost)
EducationMember Academy of Arts (1847)
Professor by rank (1857)
Alma materImperial Academy of Arts (1836)
Known forArchitecture
Spouse
Camilla Cavos
(m. 1849; died 1891)
Children5, including Alexandre, Albert and Leon
FamilyBenois
AwardsBig Gold Medal of the Imperial Academy of Arts (1836)

Nicholas or Nikolai Leontievich Benois (Russian: Николай Леонтьевич Бенуа, romanizedNikolay Leontyevich Benua; 13 July [O.S. 1 July] 1813 – 23 December [O.S. 11 December] 1898)[1] was a Russian architect who worked in Peterhof and other suburbs of St. Petersburg.[2]

  1. ^ The supplement to The modern encyclopedia of Russian, Soviet and Eurasian history: Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic - Bugaev, Boris Nikolaevich. Gulf Breeze, Fla: Academic International Press. 1995. p. 122.
  2. ^ Chuchvaha, Hanna (2016). Art periodical culture in late imperial Russia: 1898-1917 print modernism in transition. Leiden Boston: Brill. p. 68. ISBN 9789004301405.

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