Mikhail
Konstantinovich Benois

Russia • 1912−1955

(1912, St. Petersburg. – 1955, Leningrad)

Architect-artist. The son of Konstantin Mikhailovich Benoit (1885-1950), the grandson of Mikhail Nikolayevich Benois (1862-1930), the great-grandson of the architect Nicholas Leontyevich Benois.

In 1933-1938 studied at the architectural faculty of the Institute. Repin. In 1941-1944 he served in the army. From 1945 he worked in the architectural Bureau of the Lenproject Institute with E. A. Levinson and I. I. Fomin. Among the works: projects of the metro station "Baltic" (1947, with A. I. Kubasov and F. F. Oleynikov), development of Suvorovsky Prospekt and Tulskaya street (1946, together with I. I. Fomin), the houses on the Palace embankment in Leningrad.

Wife is an architect-restorer, people's architect of Russia Irina Benoit (1912-2004), one of the founders of the school of restorers of Leningrad, restored the monuments of Leningrad and its environs.

The granddaughter of architect Barbara E. Benoit (b. 1962).

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