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Alexander
Osipovich Bernardazzi

Russia • 1831−1907

(1831, Pyatigorsk — 14 (26) August 1907, the station Fastov) — Russian architect, member of the Society of civil engineers, St. Petersburg society of architects.

Alexander Bernardazzi was born in Pyatigorsk in 1831. The son of a Swiss architect Giuseppe Bernardazzi, who built the city of Pyatigorsk. Dynasty Bernardazzi, came from Pambio, Ticino Canton, settled in the South of Russia under Alexander I.

In 1843 defined in the Junior classes of the School Building in St. Petersburg, graduated from the course in the first category with the title architectural assistant. From 1850 he was appointed to a Junior technical position in the Bessarabian regional construction and road Commission. Almost 30 years was a Policeman architect of Chisinau. Since 1875, the honorary citizen of Chisinau.

In 1883 he moved to Odessa, but went on to design and Bessarabia, and later worked in the Novorossiysk University. Bernardazzi was an adherent of classicism, then, of Neoclassicism, at the same time, he gravitated to the style of the Italian Renaissance with Gothic elements.

Alexander Bernardazzi died on a business trip in Fastov, near Kiev. According to his will he was buried in Chisinau next to his mother.

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