Władysław Horodecki

Leszek Władysław Horodecki (Ukrainian / Russian Владислав Владиславович Городецкий ) (*. Maijul 23 / ​​June 4 1863greg in Scholudky, Podolia Governorate, Russian Empire, . † January 3, 1930 Tehran ) was a Ukrainian architect.

Life

Horodecki was born in 1863 in Scholudky as the son of a Polish family. He studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. In 1890 he moved to Kiev where he remained for nearly 30 years and his most famous works created. After the Bolsheviks came to power in Kiev, he emigrated in 1920 to Warsaw, in 1928 he moved to Tehran where he died in 1930 and was also buried. On his grave stone, only the Polish words Profesor architektury. In Kiev, the road between the Maidan Nezalezhnosti and the House of Chimeras in 1996 named after him.

Works

His most famous buildings are the house with chimeras, St. Nicholas Cathedral, the Karaite Kenesa, the National Art Museum of Ukraine, as well as the building of the National Academy of Music on the Maidan Nezalezhnosti in Kyiv.