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Franz Karlowicz Boffo
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Frans (Francesco) Karlowicz Boffo (Russian: Франс (Франческо) Карлович Боффо) (1780 Italy - 1867 Odessa) was an Sardinian (Italian) architect, architect of many important projects in Russia.
Boffo lived and worked in Odessa for more than 40 years (from 1820 through 1861) and built more than 50 public and residential buildings.[1]
Boffo designed several famous building in Odessa, including:
- The Primorsky (Potemkin) Stairs, with Avraam Melnikov, a St. Petersburg architect (1841)
- Primorsky Boulevard 8 and Maritime Palace (1829 - 1830)
- Mayor's office (1828 - 1834 together with G.I. Torricelli)
- Vorontsov Palace (1827 - 1830)
- One of the first multi-storied houses in Odessa, on Pushkinskaya 6 (1835) - the oldest "high-rise" in the city.
Boffo also designed another 30 buildings. Among them:
- Puskinskaya, 3 (Пушкинская) (1830),
- Sadovaya 1 (Садовая) (1847),
- Zhukovskiy 39 (Жуковского) (1836),
- Grechiskaya 35 (Греческая) (1832),
- Tschaikovsky's alley, 8 (переулок Чайковского) (1844) - which was the personal house of Boffo. This street is behind the Odessa Opera Theater.
Outside of Odessa:
- In 1823 Boffo designed the Depaldo stone stairs (Депальдовская лестница, also Каменная лестница) in Taganrog (Таганроге), Russia . In 1843 Boffo designed a stone two-story building secondary school in the city Taganrog (Таганроге).
Boffo died in 1867 and is buried in Odessa, in the first Christian cemetery (destroyed in 1930).
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Source
- Boffo, Franz Karlowicz on Russian wikipedia.
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Notes
- ^ Kononova, G. (1984). Odessa: A Guide. Moscow: Raduga Publishers. p. 47
