Svinyin V.F. (1865-1939), architect

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SVINYIN Vasily Fedorovich (1865-1939, Leningrad), architect, engineer, representative of Neoclassicism. Resided in St. Petersburg from 1883, worked as a house-builder, foreman, assistant architect. Graduated from the Academy of Arts (1892). He was involved in the renovation and restoration of the building of the Academy of Fine Arts and later became its curator. Author of the restoration and reconstruction program of the Mikhailovsky Palace, intended to accommodate the Russian Museum of Emperor Alexander III (1895-98, see Museum of Russian Art). He also drew up the plans and supervised the construction of the ethnographic department building of the Museum of Russian Art (see Museum of Ethnography) on Inzhenernaya Street (1900-11). His other works include: residential building for the staff of the Museum of Russian Art 2 Griboedov Canal Embankment; interiors of N.V. Spiridonov's mansion at 58 Furshtatskaya Street (1895-97). Following October 1917, he was appointed architect of the State Inspection Department in Smolny. Buried at Smolenskoe Orthodox Cemetery.

Reference: Полухина А. Н. Василий Свиньин // Зодчие Санкт-Петербурга, XIX - начало XX века. СПб., 1998. С. 666-681.

V. G. Isachenko. Alexander III, Emperor
Spiridonov N.V.
Svinyin Vasily Fedorovich
Furshtatskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 58
Griboedova Canal Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 2
Inzhenernaya Street/Saint Petersburg, city
Полухина А. Н. Василий Свиньин // Зодчие Санкт-Петербурга, XIX - начало XX века. СПб., 1998 Academy of Arts
Academy of Arts
Russian Museum, State
Russian Ethnographical Museum