Table of contents:
- Nobel's tenement house
- The building of the Azov-Don Bank
- Hotel "Astoria"
- Tolstoy's apartment building
- Eulers' apartment building
- Meltzer's apartment building
Video: Why did the architect who created the new look of St. Petersburg leave Russia: Architect Lidval and his magnificent houses
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Fyodor Lidval for St. Petersburg is like Lev Kekushev or Fyodor Shekhtel for the capital. If Shekhtel (the same can be said about Kekushev) is the father of Moscow Art Nouveau, then Lidval is the father of St. Petersburg Art Nouveau, or, if I may say so, the father of Northern Art Nouveau in the city on the Neva. It was Lidval's buildings that shaped the new look of St. Petersburg at the beginning of the last century, when the streets of the city began to be actively built up with apartment buildings and other large-scale and bold, for those times, buildings.
Fedor Lidval has Swedish roots (both his father and his mother were of this nationality), so the Northern Art Nouveau and Scandinavian motives were close to him, perhaps on a subconscious level. Fedor's parents lived in St. Petersburg.
The future great architect graduated from the St. Stieglitz and the Higher Art School, in which, by the way, Leonty Benois himself taught him. Lidval always considered himself his follower. Benoit strongly influenced his work.
Lidval's career as an architect in St. Petersburg went uphill - he had many orders. However, the revolution forced him to leave the country. He moved to Sweden, where he continued to do what he loved, though not on the same scale as before. Fedor Lidval died in the capital of Sweden, having lived to be 75 years old.
Nobel's tenement house
The building, located on Lesnoy Prospekt, before the revolution was designed and built for the workers of the factory of Emmanuel Nobel, the nephew of the “very” Alfred Nobel.
The building has an interesting arcade that connects the left and right sides, which are asymmetrical. Also, the turret is located asymmetrically in relation to the center of the building, however, the lack of symmetry is just characteristic of Art Nouveau.
The apartments in this house still have fireplaces and old doors.
The building of the Azov-Don Bank
This house on Bolshaya Morskaya is only partly Art Nouveau (it has many features of neoclassicism), but this does not make it less interesting.
The building is elegant and pompous. It has amazing Ionic columns and pilasters. The walls are teeming with mini-sculptures, and unusual medallions are located between the windows of the fourth floor. In the area of the first floor, you can see the bas-reliefs "Asia" and "Africa" (they were made for the project by the St. Petersburg sculptor Vasily Kuznetsov).
The interiors of the building were decorated with marble of different colors, specially delivered from abroad.
Hotel "Astoria"
The Astoria Hotel on Bolshaya Morskaya is a very famous project, to which Fyodor Lidval had a hand, although from an architectural point of view, it may not be as interesting as some of his other buildings. He worked on the project together with Nikolai Kozlov and Konstantin Eulers.
Laconic and at the same time majestic "Astoria" - the final building of the entire architectural composition of St. Isaac's Square.
Tolstoy's apartment building
One of the rather famous buildings in St. Petersburg, Tolstoy's apartment building (also called the Tolstoy House), was also built according to Lidval's design. Interestingly, this large-scale house is considered the prototype of modern residential complexes.
The architect made inside the complex not a dull courtyard-well, which can often be found in St. Petersburg, but a comfortable space for rest and walks.
By the way, many famous films were filmed near and inside the house, for example, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, The Adventures of Prince Florizel, Winter Cherry.
Eulers' apartment building
This apartment building on Roentgen Street was built at the beginning of the last century - even before the street was named after the great physicist. The customer was Herman Eilers, Lidval's father-in-law. And the house was designed by Fyodor Lidval together with his wife's brother, Konstantin Eulers.
The former Eulers apartment building has an incredibly beautiful front facade that deserves, perhaps, a separate story.
Meltzer's apartment building
On one side this apartment building faces Bolshaya Konyushennaya, and on the other - to Volynsky Lane, and its turret is visible from afar to those who walk along Nevsky Prospect.
It is believed that Meltzer's tenement house is one of the most beautiful buildings designed by the great master. Here you can see brickwork, and plaster, and granite, and other stones, and all this together does not look tasteless, but talented, beautiful and grandiose.
Lidval has other great projects as well. For example, he built an interesting apartment building for his mother, Ida Lidval. We invite you to read, what secrets this pompous house for the elite keeps.
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