Wladyslaw Horodecki
Leszek Władysław Horodecki ( Ukrainian / Russian Владислав Владиславович Городецкий ) (* 23 May July / 4 June 1863 greg. In Scholudky, Podolia Governorate , Russian Empire ; † January 3, 1930 in Tehran ) was an architect .
Life
Horodecki was born in Scholudky in 1863 to a Polish family. He studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg . In 1890 he moved to Kiev , where he stayed for almost 30 years and created his most famous works. After the Bolsheviks came to power in Kiev, he emigrated to Warsaw in 1920 , and in 1928 he moved to Tehran, where he died in 1930 and was also buried. Only the Polish words Profesor architektury are written on his tombstone . In 1996 the street between the Majdan Nezalezhnosti and the House of Chimeras was named after him in Kiev .
Works
His most famous buildings are the house with the chimeras , St. Nicholas Cathedral , the Karaite Kenesa , the National Art Museum of Ukraine and the building of the National Music Academy on the Maidan Nesaleschnosti in Kiev.
Web links
House with the Chimeras 2005
St. Nicholas Cathedral 2010
Karaite Kenesa 1900
National Museum of Art of Ukraine 1904
National Music Academy of Ukraine 2008
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| SURNAME | Horodecki, Wladyslaw |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gorodecki |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 4, 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Scholudky |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 3, 1930 |
| Place of death | Tehran |