Melnikov А.I. (1784-1854), architect

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MELNIKOV Avraam Ivanovich (1784, Oranienbaum - 1854, St. Petersburg), architect, associate academy member. Representative of the late Empire style. In 1795-1806, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in the class of А.D. Zakharov. In 1808-11, he was a retainer of the Academy of Arts in Italy. From 1811, he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts (as of 1812, was made an associate academy member, from 1818, was a professor; from 1843, he assumed the post of the Academy Rector). He was a member of the St. Petersburg building committee (from 1818). The St. Nicholas’ Edinoverie Church is considered to be Melnikov's chief masterpiece. He also built a number of private houses: Yakovlev's house (1823-26 Tuchkova Embankment, now 14-16 Makarova Embankment), Zherbin's House (1824, not preserved), Kukanova's House (1831-32, 79 Fontanka River Embankment), Shishmarev's summer house (1824-25, 87 Primorsky Avenue ) and Nikitin's summer house (1828-30, 32 Glavnaya street ), a wooden Church of St. Spiridon in Ornaienbaum. He rebuilt the Holy Annunciation Church at the Volkovsky Edinovercheskoe Cemetery (1835-36, not preserved), the building of the Imperial School of Law (1834-35). He was buried at Smolenskoe Orthodox Cemetery.

References: Тубли М. П. Авраам Мельников. Л., 1980; Саблин И. Д. Авраам Мельников // Зодчие Санкт-Петербурга, XIX - начало XX века. СПб., 1998. С. 190-202.

V. V. Antonov. Kukanova A.
Melnikov Avraam Ivanovich
Nikitin
Shishmarev A.F.
Shishmarev Vladimir Fedorovich
Yakovlev
Zakharov Andreyan (Adrian) Dmitrievich
Zherbin
Fontanka River Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 79
Glavnaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 32
Makarova Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 14
Makarova Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 16
Primorsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 87
Тубли М. П. Авраам Мельников. Л., 1980
Саблин И. Д. Авраам Мельников // Зодчие Санкт-Петербурга, XIX - начало XX века. СПб., 1998 Academy of Arts
Academy of Arts
St. Nicholas’ Edinoverie Church
Law School