Benois L.N. (1856-1928), architect

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Benois Leonty (Ludovik) Nikolaevich (1856, Peterhof -1928, Leningrad), architect, full State Advisor (1905), an honourable cultural figure (1927). The son of N. L. Benois, a brother of Albert N. Benois and А. N. Benois. In 1879, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts. He taught at the School of Drawing of the Society of Encouragement of Artists (1879-84), and at the College of Civil Engineers (1884-92, 1920-27). He was an editor of the Arkhitector journal (1892-95). He was the associate member (1885) and a professor (1892), and, from 1893, a full member of the Academy of Fine Arts, as well as Architect of the Supreme Court (1899). He was a founder (1903) and an honourable member (1922-28) of the Society of Architectural Artists. He was professor and director of the studio (from 1893), a rector (1903-06, 1911-17) of the High School of Artists at the Academy of Fine Arts; a professor of Petrograd Free Educational Drawing Workshops (from 1918) (Among his students: V. G. Gelfreich, A. I. Dmitriev, N. E. Lansere, O. R. Munz, L. V. Rudnev, M. M. Peretyatkovich, V. A. Pokrovsky, I. A. Fomin, V. A. Shchuko and A. V. Shchusev, et al.). The works by Benois who was a representative of Eclecticism and Neoclassicism, are characterized by precise architectural composition, expressive silhouette, measured and solid artistic ensemble, inventive faculty and high skill in accomplishing the details. In St. Petersburg, he designed the following apartment houses: 39 Zagorodny Avenue, 79 Gorokhovaya Street, (1885-86); 27-29 Mokhovaya Street, (1897-98); 20 Third Line of Vasilievsky Island (1897-98, not implemented); 24 Kamennoostrovsky Avenue, 10 Bolshaya Monetnaya Street (1896-96); 57 Bolshoy Avenue of Vasilievsky Island, 15 Sixteenth Line of Vasilievsky Island); he also erected the buildings of the Court Chapel, buildings of administration of Russia insurance company (37 Bolshaya Morskaya Street, 1898-99), of the First Russian Insurance Society (40 Bolshaya Morskaya Street, 1899-1900); of the Otta Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology; the Moscow Merchant Bank ( 46 Nevsky Prospect, 1901-02); the Roman Catholic church of the French Embassy; the Assembly Hall of the State Council in Mariinsky Palace (1907-08), the building of the State Printing Office ( 15 Chkalovsky Avenue/ 26 Gatchinskaya Street, 1908-10), of the Exhibition wing of the Museum of Russian Art (1914-19, with participation of S. O. Ovsyannikov) etc. In 1910-13, together with A. E. Enakiev, Peretyatkovich and Lansere, he developed the project for reconstructing St. Petersburg (not implemented). He lived in his own house on 20 Third Line of Vasilievsky Island (1899 - 1928). He was buried at Literatorskie mostki.

References: Записки о моей деятельности // Невский архив: Ист.-краевед. сб. М.; СПб., 1993. [Вып. 1]. С. 7-64.

Лит.: Лисовский В. Г., Юдина Л. А. Замечательный зодчий и педагог: Творч. портрет Л. Н. Бенуа // СиАЛ. 1979. № 2. С. 35-38; Фролов В. А. Леонтий Бенуа // Зодчие Санкт-Петербурга, XIX - начало XX века. СПб., 1998. С. 537-561; Фролов В. А., Фролова М. В. Влияние французской архитектуры на творчество Л. Н. Бенуа // Тр. Гос. музея истории С.-Петербурга. 2001. Вып. 6. С. 42-66; Лисовский В. Г. Леонтий Бенуа. СПб., 2003.

В. А. Фролов. Benois Albert Nikolaevich
Benois Alexander Nikolaevich
Benois Leonty Nikolaevich
Benois Nikolay Leontievich
Dmitriev Alexander Ivanovich
Enakiev Alexander Ivanovich
Fomin Ivan Alexandrovich
Frolov Vladimir Alexandrovich
Gelfreich Vladimir Georgievich
Glinka Mikhail Ivanovich
Lansere Nikolay Evgenievich
Munz Oskar Rudolfovich
Obukhov Pavel Matveevich
Ovsyannikov Mikhail Alexeevich
Ovsyannikov Sergey Osipovich (Iosifovich)
Peretyatkovich Marian Marianovich
Pokrovsky Vladimir Alexandrovich
Rudnev Lev Vladimirovich
Shchuko Vladimir Alexeevich
Shchusev Alexey Viktorovich
3d Line of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 20
16th Line of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 15
Bolshaya Monetnaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 10
Bolshaya Morskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 40
Bolshaya Morskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 37
Bolshoy Ave of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 57
Chkalovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 15
Gatchinskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 26
Gorokhovaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 79
Kamennoostrovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 24
Mokhovaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 27-29
Nevsky prospect/Saint Petersburg, city, house 46
Zagorodny Avenue/Saint Petersburg, city, house 39
Лисовский В. Г., Юдина Л. А. Замечательный зодчий и педагог: Творч. портр. Л. Н. Бенуа // Стр-во и архитектура Ленинграда, 1979
Фролов В. А. Леонтий Бенуа // Зодчие Санкт-Петербурга, XIX - начало XX века. СПб., 1998
Фролов В. А., Фролова М. В. Влияние французской архитектуры на творчество Л. Н. Бенуа // Тр. Гос. музея истории С.-Петербурга, 2001
Записки о моей деятельности // Невский архив: Ист.-краевед. сб. М.; СПб., 1993 Academy of Arts
Academy of Arts
Zodchiy (The Architect), journal
Ott Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Roman Catholic Church of the French Embassy
Mariinsky Palace
Russian Museum, State
Literatorskie (Literary) Mostki, the museum-necropolis