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.

List of works

  • 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

    Literature

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  • Степан Самойлович Кричинский. Некролог // Зодчий, 1924, N 1, С.4-5
  • Горюнов В. С., Тубли М. П. Архитектура эпохи модерна. // СПб., 1994. С. 339; Строитель. 1897. Стлб. 720.
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