Benois, Nikolay Leontyevich (1813 - 1898), an architect and artist

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Nikolay Leontyevich Benois (1813-1898), an architect and artist-decorator. N.L. Benois graduated from the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts in 1836. From 1846 he was a court architect of the Academy (1847), a professor (1858), an honorary member of the Academy of Arts (1896). He was an founder, the chairman (1890-1893), an honorary member of the St. Petersburg Society of Architects. He was the author of projects of buildings in St. Petersburg, Peterhof (the Court Stables, Lady-in-waiting houses, the post office building, the railway station), in Tsarskoye Selo, Moscow, Tambov, Helsingfors, in the Smolensk and Yekaterinoslav Gubernias. During 1853-1862 he built the group of buildings of the Lisino forestry and the Church of the Procession of the Venerable and Life-Giving Cross of the Lord (Lisino-Korpus Settlement, Tosno District). In 1860-65 he built the Chapel "Krylechko" ("Small Porch") at the Tikhvin Dormition Convent. N.L. Benois died in St. Petersburg and was buried in the Vyborg Catholic cemetery. The gravestone was not intacted. Chekanova, Olga Aleksandrovna
Benois, Nikolay Leontyevich
Leningrad Oblast, the/Tosno District/Lisino-Korpus Settlement
Бартенева М.И. Николай Бенуа. СПб., 1994
Кириков Б.М. Малоизвестные работы архитектора Николая Бенуа // Краеведческие записки: Исследования и материалы. Вып. 3. СПб., 1995., 103-109
The Church of the Procession of the Venerable and Life-Giving Cross of the Lord (Lisino-Korpus Settlement, Tosno District)
Tikhvin Dormition Convent, the