Nicholas Benois

Nicholas Benois
Николай Бенуа
Portrait by Viktor Dumitrashko, late 19th century
Born(1813-07-01)July 1, 1813
DiedDecember 11, 1898(1898-12-11) (aged 85)
EducationMember Academy of Arts (1847)
Professor by rank (1857)
Alma materImperial Academy of Arts (1836)
Known forArchitecture
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.