(1863, Simbirsk governorate — 1919, Moscow), architect. Studied at St. Petersburg Institute of civil engineers (1883-88). Taught at the Stroganov school of industrial art (1898-1901). He worked mainly in Moscow. Early constructions made in the spirit of eclecticism (the apartment house of A. S. Gagarin in Small varsonof'evskiy pereulok, 1892 — 1893, 1896). Since the beginning of the XX century became a bright representative of the Moscow version of art Nouveau. The architecture of the mansions came from free, often asymmetrical-plan, effectively beat motifs of the tower, protruding Bay Windows, deep loggias, horseshoe complete Windows, undulating offsets of the roof that did live, a variety of external outlines of the building, reported it to the integrity of the facades, elastic, pulsating force. Along with the harmonious outlines of buildings (houses A. O. Sheet in Glazovskiy pereulok, 1898-99, I. A. Mindovsky on Cook street, 1903-04) created an emphatically expressive, extravagant building with an unusual combination of volumes (Kekusheva Ostozhenka, 1901-02). In the architecture of the apartment buildings was a combination of recesses and protrusions of the walls with undulating top of the eaves, large glass surfaces with whimsical curves casements and stained-glass Windows are widely used molding and elegant wrought-iron grating (apartment house I. Isakova on Prechistenka, the beginning of the 1900s). Made picturesque expressiveness in sustainable architecture for commercial buildings (Nikolsky shopping arcade on Nikolskaya street, 1899-1900).
