Danini S.A. (1867-1942), architect.

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DANINI Silvio Amvrosievich (1867-1942, Leningrad), architect. Descendent of an Italian family. He lived in St. Petersburg from 1886, graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in 1892. From 1896, he was the architect of the palace administration of Tsarskoe Selo. From 1911, he was architect of the imperial court. His buildings in Tsarskoye Selo are typical for Neo-Romantic trend of the modernist style with stylized motives of medieval architecture, such as the Palace electric power station (9, 11 Malaya Street, 1896), mansions of A.V. Kokorev (53, 55 Moskovskaya Street, 1901-04) and of V.V. Gudovich (18 Parkovaya Street, 1905), the emperor's stables (4 Akademichesky Avenue, 1906-07), Drozhzhina Orphanage (14 Pavlovskoe Highway, 1907-11) etc. In 1900s, Danini decorated a number of interiors of Alexandrovsky Palace, he built and reconstructed park structures, expanded a complex of the Court Hospital (7 Gospitalnaya Street, 1908-14). His main works in St. Petersburg were: the apartment building of A. Y. Tami and S.M. Deutschman (currently, 20 Pravdy Street, 1903-04), the early Art Nouveau; the real school and gymnasium of G.K. Stemberg (10 Zvenigorodskaya Street, 1912-13), an example of Neoclassicism. He is buried at Volkovskoe Lutheran Cemetery.

References: Бертаццони В. Судьба мантуанского рода Данини в России. СПб., 1996.

Б. М. Кириков. Danini Silvio Amvrosievich
Deutschman S.M.
Drozhzhina M.A.
Gudovich Vasily Vasilievich
Kokorev A. V.
Stemberg G.K.
Tami A.Yu.
Akademichesky Avenue/Pushkin, town, house 4
Gospitalnaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 7
Malaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 9
Malaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 11
Moskovskaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 53
Moskovskaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 55
Pavlovskoe Freeway/Pushkin, town, house 14
Pravdy St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 20
Zvenigorodskaya Street/Saint Petersburg, city, house 10
Бертаццони В. Судьба мантуанского рода Данини в России. СПб., 1996 Academy of Arts
Academy of Arts
Alexander Palace (Pushkin)
Neoclassicism