Benois Alexei Leontievich. Famous Russian architect who worked in Turkestan. Son of Leontius Leontievich Benois (an official of the Tsarskoye Selo Railway Company (1801-1885), nephew of architect Nikolai Leontievich Benois (1813-1898). In 1865 he graduated from the Imperial Academy of Arts, receiving upon its completion the title of a free artist ‘with the right to make buildings and enter whatever service he wishes’. From June 1874 he entered ‘the service of the military and national administration’ in the office of the Governor-General of Turkestan K. P. von Kaufman. On 8... далее

Benois Alexei Leontievich. Famous Russian architect who worked in Turkestan. Son of Leontius Leontievich Benois (an official of the Tsarskoye Selo Railway Company (1801-1885), nephew of architect Nikolai Leontievich Benois (1813-1898). In 1865 he graduated from the Imperial Academy of Arts, receiving upon its completion the title of a free artist ‘with the right to make buildings and enter whatever service he wishes’. From June 1874 he entered ‘the service of the military and national administration’ in the office of the Governor-General of Turkestan K. P. von Kaufman. On 8 February 1875 he was appointed a member of the Syr-Darya construction and road commission, which was in charge of the entire development of Tashkent. Alexei Leontievich Benois was seconded for two years (1875-1877) at the disposal of the military governor of the Semirechensk region to the city of Verny (Almaty), where he was also engaged in architectural and construction works. In 1878 A.L. Benois returned to Tashkent, when in the Turkestan region at the regional boards began to organise construction departments headed by military engineers, and A.L. Benois was appointed to the post of junior architect of the Syr-Darya region. In April 1879, Alexei Leontievich Benois left the civil service ‘for family reasons’ and at the same time, due to a number of circumstances could not receive the title of class artist of the 3rd degree. For almost four years he worked in Tashkent as a private architect. At the end of 1882, A. L. Benois was again appointed to public service as a junior architect of the Zaravshan district in Samarkand, where he worked for four years. In 1890 A. L. Benois (together with engineer E. P. Dubrovin) designed and built entrance gates on the side of Konstantinovsky square for the industrial exhibition, opened in the city garden and timed to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the annexation of Tashkent. The last years of his life A. L. Benois served as an architect of the Turkestan customs district in Krasnovodsk. The most famous buildings in Tashkent, made according to his designs or with his participation, are the building of the Tashkent Men's Gymnasium, the building of the Evangelist Lutheran Church and the building of the palace of Grand Duke Nikolai Konstantinovich, which was built in 1889-1890 under the direction of civil engineer V. S. Heinzelman. The largest architectural work of A. L. Benois in Central Asia was, according to experts, the Palace of Emir of Bukhara Seyid Abdul-Akhad Khan, who ruled from 1885 to 1910. The Palace of the Emir of Bukhara is a palace 12 kilometres east of Bukhara. The city where this palace was built was called New Bukhara during the years of construction and was later renamed Kagan in 1935. The palace is considered the main attraction of the city. скрыть