Suzor P. Y. (1844-1919), architect

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SUZOR Pavel Yulievich (1844 - 1919, Petrograd), architect, associate academy member of architecture (1892). Graduated from the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts (1866). From 1873, worked at the City Council, from 1883 lectured at the Institute of Civil Engineering. He was a master of matured Eclecticism and Art Nouveau. Over 80 buildings of his design can be seen at present (apartment houses, baths, orphanages, hospitals, academic and bank buildings, churches and industrial production facilities). From the 1870s, he continuously employed new techniques of structural organization for apartment houses, broad windows, multi-storied bay windows, corner-towers. These enlarged elements of a three-dimensional composition, accentuating the silhouette of streets and blocks, are skilfully integrated into А.М. Ushakov's house (54 Nevsky Prospect, 1882-83), Е.S. Egorov's house (pres. 40 Nekrasova Street, 1883-84), V.A. Ratkov-Rozhnov's house (pres. 71 Griboedov Canal Embankment, 1886-88), P.T. Badaev's house (49 Bolshoy Avenue of Petrogradskaya Side, 1902-03). Suzor’s defined the appearance of a newly routed Pushkinskaya Street (1874-79). Works performed in the late 19th century combine rational planning and the lavishness of the eclectic adornment of facades. In the houses of Y.V. Ratkov-Rozhnov and A.V. Ratkov-Rozhnov (13-15 Pestelya Street, 32-34 Kirochnaya Street, 1898-1900) for the first time we see the court and garden areas opened on the street side with gigantic arches. Suzor paid special attention to the construction of baths, among his projects are the baths of M.S. Voronin (1 Fonarny Lane, 1870-71), of E.S. Egorov (11 Bolshoy Kazachy Lane, 1875-76), of E.F. Ovchinnikov (22 Bolshaya Pushkarskaya Street, 1876-77), Belozerskie baths (present day 1 Kropotkina Street, 1882). The building of the Society of Mutual Credit is designed in the spirit of Neo-renaissance (present day 13 Griboedov Canal Embankment, 1888-90, sculptors D.I. Jensen, А.М. Opekushin). Syuzor's most significant creations are considered to be the building of the join-stock company Singer and Co. (28 Nevsky Prospect, 1902-04, sculptor А.G. Adamson, now Dom Knigi bookstore, where a metal frame was first applied. Initiator and chairman of the Russian Architects Congresses' Organizational Committees. Chairman of the Artists Architects Society (from 1903). One of the founders of the Museum of Old St. Petersburg, from 1907 located at his house (at present 21 Syezdovskaya Line). Also owned houses at 3 Volkhovsky Lane, 42 Kazanskaya Street among others. Buried at Smolenskoe Lutheran Cemetery.

Reference: Исаченко В. Г. Павел Сюзор // Зодчие Санкт-Петербурга, ХIХ - начало ХХ века. СПб., 1998. С. 501-517.

B. М. Kirikov. Adamson Amandus
Badaev P.T.
Egorov Efim Savelievich
Jensen David Ivanovich
Opekushin Alexander Mikhailovich
Ovchinnikov E.F.
Ratkov-Rozhnov Vladimir Alexandrovich
Ratkov-Rozhnov Yakov Vladimirovich
Suzor Pavel Yulievich
Ushakov Abram Mikhailovich
Voronin Mikhail Stepanovich
Bolshaya Pushkarskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 22
Bolshoy Ave of Petrograskaya Storona/Saint Petersburg, city, house 49
Bolshoy Kazachy Lane/Saint Petersburg, city, house 11
Fonarny Lane/Saint Petersburg, city, house 1
Griboedova Canal Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 13
Griboedova Canal Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 71
Kazanskaya Street/Saint Petersburg, city, house 42
Kirochnaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 32
Kirochnaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 34
Kropotkina St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 1
Nekrasova St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 40
Nevsky prospect/Saint Petersburg, city, house 28
Nevsky prospect/Saint Petersburg, city, house 54
Pestelya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 15
Pestelya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 13
Siezdovskaya Line of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 21
Volkhovsky Lane/Saint Petersburg, city, house 3
Исаченко В. Г. Павел Сюзор // Зодчие Санкт-Петербурга, ХIХ - начало ХХ века. СПб., 1998 Academy of Arts
Academy of Arts
Mutual Credit Societies
The House of Books, the Book Shop
Museum of Old Petersburg
1890