Nilus, Bogdan Mikhailovich

In 1894 he graduated from the Institute of Civil Engineers of Emperor Nicholas I in St. Petersburg with the title of Civil Engineer. Initially, he worked in the capital, was an architect at the TSK MVD . At the beginning of the XX century he moved to Moscow. In 1902 he was appointed supernumerary technician of the Construction Department of the Moscow Provincial Government, from 1906 he moved to the post of first electrical engineer, and then junior engineer. Since 1908 he worked as a provincial architect, and later acted as a provincial engineer. At the same time, from 1907, he was an architect at the Moscow City Office of the State Bank. From 1902 to 1919 he served as the controller of loans of the Moscow Credit Society. He was the vowel of the Moscow City Council, was a member of the commission for the development of the Moscow city tram ^[1] . ^{[2] [3]} He lived on Malaya Dmitrovka , 3, apt. No. 17 ^[4] . The fate of the architect after 1917 is unknown. ^[2]

B. M. Nilus undertook the construction of mainly large state and private orders, which explains the small number of its buildings. The art historian M.V. Nashchokina particularly distinguishes the Loan Treasury building, made in the Neo-Russian style , and the Penkina apartment building, built in the modernist style , from his buildings. ^[2]

• The building of the State Bank, together with M. D. Bykovsky (1894, Moscow, 12 Neglinnaya Street ) ^[7] ;
• Bocharov’s apartment building (215, Moscow, Gogolevsky Boulevard , 21, in the yard);
• Apartment building S. P. Penkina, together with A. F. Meissner (1905-1906, Moscow, Bolshaya Nikitskaya street , 26);
• Office buildings in the possession of P.P. Ryabushinsky (1906, Moscow, Gogolevsky Boulevard, 6, in the yard);
• Three stone buildings of Y. V. Schukin in the Hermitage Garden (1907, Moscow, Karetny Ryad );
• House of D. I. Blagoveshchensky (1909, Moscow, Kudrinskaya Square ), has not been preserved;
• The apartment building and services of A. I. Sporyshkin (34, Bolshoi Kamenshchiki , Moscow, 1909, Moscow) were not preserved;
• Apartment building S.F. and A.A. Plescheeva (1910, Moscow, Gusyatnikov pereulok , 3/1 - Lane Ogorodnaya Sloboda , 1/3);
• Apartment building D.K. Kalenichenko (1910-1911, Moscow, Leningradsky Prospekt 22), rebuilt;
• The Nikitinykh Circus, together with A. M. Gurzhienko (1911, Moscow, Triumfalnaya Square , 4), was rebuilt into the Satire Theater ;
• Participation in the construction of the State Bank Building (1911-1913, Nizhny Novgorod , 26 Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Street );
• Own tenement houses of B. M. Nilus (1912, 1915, Moscow, 3 Daev Pereulok ) were not preserved;
• Residential buildings for employees of the Moscow office of the State Bank (1913, Moscow, 12 Nikitsky Boulevard ), completed in 1922-1925 by the architect S. A. Krotov ^[7] ;
• The building of the Loan treasury , together with V. A. Pokrovsky (1913-1914, Moscow, 3 Nastasyinsky Lane );
• The project of the house church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker at the apartment buildings of the Ministry of Finance (1915, Moscow, Kalashny Lane , 7), has not been implemented ^[8] .

• Nashchokina M. B. Architects of Moscow Art Nouveau. Creative portraits . - 3rd ed. - M .: Giraffe , 2005 . - S. 361-363. - 2500 copies. - ISBN 5-89832-043-1 .
• Moscow architects of the time of eclecticism, Art Nouveau and neoclassicism (1830s - 1917): ill. biogr. Dictionary / State. scientific researcher Museum of Architecture A.V. Shchuseva et al. - M .: KRABiK, 1998 .-- S. 186-187. - 320 p. - ISBN 5-900395-17-0 .

• Nilus Bogdan Mikhailovich Article on biografija.ru
• Art Nouveau and eclecticism