Irina Benua
Irina Nikolayevna Benua ( Ирина Николаевна Бенуа ; 16 May 1912 St. Petersburg - 2004 ) was a Soviet - Russian architect and building restorer .[1][2]
She was named a People's Architect of the Russian Federation .[3]
Life
[edit]Irina Nikolayevna's parents were Nikolai Mikhailovich Osipov (1881–1941), a professor at the Imperial Academy of Arts, and his wife, Zoya Leonidovna, née Van der Flaas, who had studied at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory . Irina Nikolayevna studied at the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (LIShSA), which had evolved from the Imperial Academy of Arts, in the Faculty of Architecture , graduating in 1937 as an architect-artist. In 1937, she married the Leningrad architect Mikhail Konstantinovich Benoua (1912–1955, great-nephew of Leonti Nikolayevich Benois and Alexander Nikolayevich Benois ). They had one daughter. [4]
Irina Benua then worked as an architect and designer in Fomin and Levinson's Leningrad workshop. She also taught drawing at the Leningrad Building Technical School. During World War II, after the first winter of the Siege of Leningrad, she and her daughter were evacuated to Barnaul . [4]
In the autumn of 1945, Benua returned and worked in the Leningrad Workshops for Architecture and Restoration . [4] From 1946 to 1953, she restored the classical Alexander School in Leningrad, built in 1765–1775 by Georg Friedrich Veldten and Ivan Ivanovich Betskoy, the southwest section of which had been destroyed by German aerial bombs in 1941. From 1952 to 1956, she restored the badly damaged Kikin Palace.[5] Her projects for the restoration of the Peter and Paul Cathedral and the Panteleimon Church, built by Ivan Kuzmich Korobov , were not realized. [6]
When the Leningrad bridge construction organization Lenmostotrest took the initiative to restore the Staro Kalinkin Bridge over the Fontanka River in 1965 , Benua carried out the project. She also oversaw the restoration of the Kamennoostrovsky Theatre (1967) and the Cottage Palace in Peterhof , built by Adam Menelaws for Nicholas I.
References
[edit]- ↑ "International Architecture Database". archinform.net. Retrieved 2026-04-11.
- ↑ Sokolina, Anna (2021-06-28). The Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-000-38736-0.
- ↑ "УКАЗ Президента РФ от 06.10.2000 N 1734 "О ПРИСВОЕНИИ ПОЧЕТНОГО ЗВАНИЯ "НАРОДНЫЙ АРХИТЕКТОР РОССИЙСКОЙ - ФЕДЕРАЦИИ" БЕНУА И.Н., КУБАСОВУ В.С."". graph.document.kremlin.ru. 2013-10-25. Archived from the original on 2014-08-11. Retrieved 2026-04-14.
- 1 2 3 "Реставраторы Петербурга: Ирина Бенуа | сайт компании НРФ «МИР". www.nrfmir.ru. Archived from the original on 2018-06-14. Retrieved 2026-04-11.
- ↑ Kelly, Catriona (2016-11-01). Socialist Churches: Radical Secularization and the Preservation of the Past in Petrograd and Leningrad, 1918–1988. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-1-5017-5758-7.
- ↑ Miropolskaya, R.A. (May 16, 2017). "16 мая исполняется 105 лет со дня рождения петербургского реставратора И.Н.Бенуа" (PDF). www.institute-spb.standardsite.ru. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-06-25. Retrieved 2026-04-11.
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