Zhelyazevich, Rudolf Andreyevich (1811- 187?), an architect

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Rudolf Andreyevich Zhelyazevich (1811- 187?), an architect, building expert. He learned abroad. Rudolf Andreyevich Zhelyazevich was an academician of architeture (1842) and a professor of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (1845). He worked at the Central Administrative Board of Railways and Public Buildings (1832-1854) as the senior architect of the Railway Department. He was a member of building the Nikolayevsky (now Moskovsky) Railway Station in St. Petersburg (1845-1851), the author of railway stations projects and the inspector of building the Nikolayevskaya Railway (see the articles: Railway Stations, the October Railway). In St. Petersburg Zhelyazevich built the building of N.M. Stenbok-Fermor' Passazh (1846-1848; it was rebuilt in 1900-1912), an office of the 4th Admiralty (Kolomensky) Police-Station (1849-1851) and others. He designed the building of the Railway Station in Lyuban. Margolis, Aleksandr Davidovich
Stenbok-Fermor, N.M.
Zhelyazevich, Rudolf Andreyevich
Leningrad Oblast, the/Tosno District/Lyuban Town
Архитекторы-строители Санкт-Петербурга сер. XIX – нач. ХХ вв.: Справочник / Под общей ред. Б.М. Кирикова. СПб., 1996., С.132
Зодчие Санкт-Петербурга, XIX – начала ХХ века / Сост. В.Г.Исаченко. СПб., 1998, С.995
October Railroad, the
Railway stations