Alexander Bernadazzi

Aleksander Osipovich Bernardazzi ( _ru. Бернардацци Александр Осипович, alternative spelling: Alexandr Bernardacci) (1831-August 14, 1907) was a Russian architect best known for his work in Odessa.

Early life

Bernardazzi was born in Pyatigorsk in 1831. The town had been almost completely built by his father and uncle, who were originally Swiss. Very early Bernardazzi demonstrated artistic talent. Bernardazzi was sent to study in Moscow. His first architectural job was in Chisinau from 1856-1858, where he served as the city architect. cite book
last = Kononova | first = G. | authorlink = | coauthors = | year = 1984 | title =Odessa: A Guide
publisher = Raduga Publishers | location = Moscow | id = | url = http://www.2odessa.com/wiki/index.php?title=Odessa_a_guide p. 105-106] Herlihy, Patricia (1987, 1991). Odessa: A History, 1794–1914. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-916458-15-6, hardcover; ISBN 0-916458-43-1;p. 268, 269.]

Major work

In 1878 Bernardacci moved to Odessa and lived there for over thirty years.

Bernardazzi became an Odessa architect at the Novorossisk University (Новороссийском университете) in the mid 1880s.

In the mid 1880s he designed:
* The former Odessa railway station, 1879-1883, Architect V.A. Schröter (В.А. Шретера)] destroyed by the Nazis in 1944;
*Disability house ("Pischepromavtomatika" (Пищепромавтоматика) Mechnikova 53 (Мечникова), 1886) and
* The Odessa International Technical Society building (Baranova 1 (Баранова), in 1887.Architect E. Ya. Mesnera (Э.Я.Меснера), engineer P.S. Chehovicha (П.С. Чеховича).]

Bernardazzi desiged a large number of residential buildings and mansions:

* Preobrazhenskaya 15 (Преображенская) (1891);
* Pastera 34 (Пастера) (1891);
* Gogolaya 23
* Troitskaya 20 (Троицкая);
* Kirov 20 (Кирова) (1893);
* Deribasovskaya 31 tobacco shop (Дерибасовской)(1894);
* Didrihsona, 7 mansion (Дидрихсона)(1894); and a number of others.

By the 100th Anniversary of Odessa, Odessa city architect Bernardazzi, led the work of the Technical Division of the Architectural Society and instructed the design and construction of a number of public buildings. Bernardazzi most memorable designs were in the 1890s:

* Medical school clinic at Pastera 7 (Пастера); [Architect N.S. Tolvinskim (Н.Ш.Толвинским)]
* Belinsky 9 hospital (Белинского) (1892) [Architect Shmidena and Shneera (Шмидена и Шнеера)]
* Warehouse building near the railway station (1890s);
* Reformed Church Pastera 62 (Пастера), Now the Puppet Theatre;
* Krasnaya (Red) hotel at Pushkinskaya 15, "Bristol" (Бристоль), 1898-1899 [With young architect A.B. Minkusom (А.Б.Минкусом)] and, finally,
* The New Stock Exchange now the Odessa Philharmonic Theater (1894-1899). [In collaboration with sculptors Molinari, and Menzione and Eduardsom, artists Kassioli and Karazinym (Молинари, Менционе и Эдуардсом, художниками Кассиоли и Каразиным)]

Bernardazzi is also responsible for Baranova 18 (Баранова)(1902), and Troitskaya 18 (Троицкая)(1903).

Other work includes the:

*Porto-Franko Bank at Pushkinskaya 10 (Пушкинская)
*Bernardacci designed a monument to Alexander II in Alexander Park. The statue was replaced and today only the base remains, used to honor Taras Shevchenko. Alexander Park was renamed Shevchenko Park.

Bernardazzi died August 14, 1907 at Fastov.

Notes

ee also

*List of Russian architects

External links

*Much of the material for this article came from the article cite web
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