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15-918: The Lutheran cemetery on Dekabristov Island is known to have existed in 1747. The Smolenka River divides it from the Smolensky Orthodox Cemetery on Vasilievsky Island . This cemetery contained the burials of the parishioners of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saint Katarina and the Catholic Church of St. Catherine , including Leonhard Euler , Xavier de Maistre , Germain Henri Hess , José de Ribas , Moritz von Jacobi , Agustín de Betancourt , Jean-François Thomas de Thomon , Ludvig Nobel , Fyodor Litke , Georg Friedrich Parrot , Karl Nesselrode , Vladimir Lamsdorf and Vasily Radlov . Some tombstones of notable people were transferred to

30-500: A "finance house", on Kamennoostrov Prospect in St Petersburg, begun in 1899 and completed in 1904. The structure was also known as the "Lidval House" as he received the commission from his mother, Ida Amalia Lidval. This building, with its Gothic windows, abundance of decorative elements, and different colors and textures, is often cited as a model of its style. Lidvall himself lived in this house until his exile in 1918. He designed

45-467: A British investment company launched a development project on a 1 square-kilometer lot in western Goloday Island, hiring Ivan Fomin and Fyodor Lidval to design a Neoclassical middle-classical neighborhood. A small part of this project was completed before World War I and the Russian Revolution . Eastern and northern sides of the island were heavily industrialized; the western half of the island

60-669: A corruption of a British merchant name Halliday) is an island in Vasileostrovsky District of Saint Petersburg , Russia , to the north of Vasilyevsky Island , separated from it by Smolenka River . The island, originally low-lying and frequently flooded, all the same was traditionally used as the Smolensky Lutheran Cemetery . In the early Soviet period, the name was changed to Decembrists' Island to commemorate five executed leaders of Decembrist revolt , who were buried in an unmarked grave on Goloday. In 1911,

75-789: A house for Alfred Nobel , the Tolstoy House on Trinity Street (now St. Rubenstein Street) with another facade overlooking the Fontanka Embankment , and many other buildings. Included among these was the six-storey Hotel Astoria , which opened in 1912 and was one of the most luxurious hotels in the Russian Empire. He designed (with his mentor Leon Benois) the Art Nouveau redesign of the Grand Hotel Europe , which had been opened in 1875. Both

90-524: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Fyodor Lidval Fyodor Ivanovich Lidval ( Russian : Фёдор Иванович Лидваль , Swedish : Johan Fredrik Lidvall ) (June 1 (June 13) 1870, St. Petersburg – 1945, Stockholm ) was a Russian-Swedish architect. Lidvall was born in St. Petersburg into a family of Swedes. In 1882 he attended elementary school at the Swedish Church of St. Catherine, and then

105-722: The Azov-Don Commercial Bank Building in St. Petersburg (1907–1813), already showing his characteristic restraint and use of classical elements (the center of the building includes a portico with columns). Lidvall also built structures for the Azov-Don Commercial Bank in Moscow , Astrakhan , Kiev , and Kharkiv . The second decade of the Twentieth Century began Lidval's creative heyday. During these years he designed

120-560: The early Soviet period when vital records are missing or prove difficult to find. Historians use them to research the social histories of the city. Somewhere in the cemetery lies the little body of infant Louisa Catherine Adams (August 12, 1811 - September 15, 1812), the fourth and last child and only daughter of John Quincy and Louisa Adams . Dekabristov Island Dekabristov Island ( Russian : остров Декабристов , lit.   'Decembrists Island'), known prior to 1926 as Goloday Island (остров Голодай – possibly

135-509: The exact writing on each headstone . He has published a two-volume book on the cemetery detailing its history ( Deutsche in St. Petersburg: ein Blick auf den Deutschen Evangelisch-Lutherischen Smolenski-Friedhof und in die europäische Kulturgeschichte , 1998). The second volume contains an index of all those buried there whose graves are still standing today. The publications are used by genealogists for family research in pre-revolutionary Russia and

150-572: The head office for Shell in Stockholm. He died in 1945 and is buried in Stockholm in Djursholm Cemetery . Lidvall began to play a significant role in the architecture of St. Petersburg in the first decade of the Twentieth Century. At the beginning of his career, he was a typical follower of the prevailing Modernist style. One of his early works was an apartment building of the type called in Russia

165-496: The necropolis of famous people at Alexander Nevsky Lavra . Among them are Thomas de Thomon (relocated in the 1930s), Euler (1956), Betancourt (1979), and others. In the last perestroika years of the Soviet Union two parts of the cemetery were destroyed. The first was a large section in the far north west corner of the cemetery which was entirely flattened to make way for a building for a local fire department in 1985. The second

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180-525: The second Petersburg Technical High School in 1888. For two years he worked in Baron Stieglitz's School of Technical Drawing. From 1890 to 1896 Lidvall was a student in the architectural department of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, studying (1894–1896) in the workshop of the eminent architect Leon Benois . He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in 1896 with the title "Artist-Architect". From 1909 he

195-528: Was a member of the Academy of Architecture, an arm of the Imperial Academy of Arts . In 1917, ruined by the revolution , he was forced to emigrate to his family in Stockholm , ending the most fruitful period of his work which is connected with St. Petersburg, although he designed several buildings in Stockholm . In Stockholm, Lidvall worked as an architect. He mainly constructed apartment buildings, but also

210-456: Was a small section at the entrance which was replaced with a petrol station in the early 1990s. The person who has done the most work in investigating the current status of the cemetery is Robert Leinonen, a longtime resident of Saint Petersburg who moved to Germany in 1991. Between 1988 and 1991, Leinonen went on countless personal visits to the cemetery itself and compiled an inventory of all those graves that are still standing today, copying

225-440: Was built up with a Brezhnev -era high-rise. Dekabristov Island is connected to Vasilievsky Island to the south with five automobile bridges, and to the tiny Serny Island north from it. It is connected to the center of the city through Primorskaya station of Saint Petersburg Metro . 59°57′N 30°14′E  /  59.950°N 30.233°E  / 59.950; 30.233 This Saint Petersburg location article

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