Alexey
Leontievich Benoit

Russian architect who worked in Turkestan. Nephew of the famous Russian architect Nicholas Benois. He graduated in 1865 the Imperial Academy of arts, received by the end of the title of a free artist "with the right to produce buildings and to join the service, what you will."

The most famous buildings in Tashkent, made by its projects or with its participation, are the building of the Tashkent men's gymnasium, the building of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church (the Lutheran Church) and the building of the Palace of Grand Duke Nikolai Konstantinovich, which was built in 1889-1890 years under the direction of the civil engineer V. S. getselman.

The largest architectural work of A. L. Benois in Central Asia have been according to experts, the Palace of the Emir of Bukhara Sayyid Abdul al-Ahad-Bahadur Khan.

(1838, St. Petersburg. - 1902, Krasnovodsk)

Son Leonty Leontyevich Benois, the nephew of the architect Nicholas Leontyevich Benois.

In 1865 he graduated from the architecture Department of the Imperial Academy of arts. Freelance artist (1865). From 1874 he worked in Turkestan; in 1875-1877 architect under the military Governor of Semirechensk area in the city of Vernyi (now Alma-ATA), in der. Kazan-Bogorodskoe (presently Uzunagash village). In 1877-1879, Jr., the architect of the Syr-Darya region; 1882-1886 – "correcting the Affairs of the Junior architect" Sarachanskoe district in Samarkand. Designed for civil, residential and Church buildings in eclectic style (co-author of the Palace of Grand Duke Nicholas Konstantinovich in Tashkent, 1889-1890), the Moorish (the Palace of the Emir of Bukhara, 1893-1898; railway station in the town of Krasnovodsk, now the city of Turkmenbashi), Russian (5-domed chapel of St. Prince Alexander Nevsky at the Tashkent teachers ' school, 1898; draft city Council in Tashkent, 1898, together with the engineer, E. P. Dubrovin), Gothic revival (the Protestant Church in Tashkent, the project 1881-1896 built 1899) and other historic styles.