Stepan Krichinsky

Stepan Samoilovich Krichinsky was a Russian architect of the eclectic and modern era.

Biography

Krichinsky was born and raised in the family of Major General Selim Krichinsky, a representative of Polish-Lithuanian Tatars. Krichinsky received secondary education at a real school in Vilnius. In 1897, he graduated from the. Since 1900, he worked as the chief architect in the Russian Border Guard Department.
Krichinsky got acquainted with the architecture of Italy, Germany, France, Sweden and Finland. He studied monuments of Russian architecture in the north and central Russian provinces. He investigated the issues of resort construction on the Kuban and the Black Sea coast in 1916–1917. Krichinsky built 24 buildings in various cities. He took part in the construction of some large buildings in Saint Petersburg.
From 1918 to 1920 he was a professor of architecture at the Kuban Polytechnic Institute, and from 1921 at the Institute of Civil Engineers in Petrograd. Since 1922 he was the head of the Architectural and Construction Department in Petrograd.
He was married to the daughter of Gleb Uspensky — Maria Glebovna. Her brother, Alexander Uspensky, was also a prominent architect. Stepan and Maria Krichinsky had three children: two sons, Gleb and Boris, and a daughter Irina. In 1925—1926 Boris Krichinsky compiled a list of his father's works.
Stepan Krichinsky died in 1923 and was buried in Volkovo Cemetery in Saint Petersburg.

The building of the equestrian yard on the estate of A. E. Vorontsova-Dashkova, 1906
The building of the Institute of Experimental Veterinary Medicine, 1908
The main building of the Brigade of the Separate Border Guard Corps, with the house church in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, 1913—1914
The building of the retail store for the officers of the garrison guard, 1908—1910s, participation under the general overseeing of E. F. Virrikh
Saint Petersburg Mosque, 1910, designed by N.V. Vasilyev with the participation of Alexander von Hohen
Complex of the Feodorovskaya Icon Cathedral in Commemoration of the Romanov Tercentenary, 1911—1914
Mansion of the artist P. E. Shcherbov, 1910—1911
Palace of E. A. Vorontsova-Dashkova, 1912—1915
The House of the Emir of Bukhara, 1913
"Feodorovsky gorodok" in Tsarskoye Selo, 1913—1917, in collaboration with V. A. Pokrovsky
People's House and Theater of the Nevsky Society for the Organization of People's Sobriety
St. Nicholas of Bari Church of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society, 1913—1915, demolished in 1932
The building of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society, 1916
A number of buildings complementing the complex of the City children's hospital, 1916
Restoration and reconstruction of the buildings of the German embassy, the Buddhist temple, the building of the former Swedish embassy, 1922
Apartment building, 1912
Suite building and other buildings of the Olgino estate, 1906

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Горюнов В. С., Тубли М. П. Архитектура эпохи модерна. // СПб., 1994. С. 339; Строитель. 1897. Стлб. 720.
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