Speckle, Carl Johann

He was the son of a gunsmith and sculptor Philip Shpekle, who came to Russia at the invitation of Peter I in 1698. He studied at the school of St. Anne - a school at the Lutheran Church of St. Anne. Together with his brother Paul in 1758, as a talented portrait painter and draftsman, he was hired by the assistant architect B.F. Rastrelli to the Office of the Buildings . In 1765-1796 he served as an architect of the Engineering Corps of the Russian Army, and also served as architect of the Artillery Corps. In these positions, he directed the design and construction of numerous military buildings in various parts of the Russian Empire. These include barracks, guard rooms, officer apartments, military administrative buildings, workshops, arsenals, military hospitals and weapons factories.
So, Shpekle revised the design of the building of the St. Petersburg Arsenal and supervised its construction until 1790. The building is considered an outstanding work of early classicism. In 1770-1780, the architect led the construction of the Sestroretsk arms factory , in 1783-1789 - the Bryansk arsenal .
In 1786-1787, he built the first iron bridges in Russia - the small Chinese in the Alexander Park of Tsarskoye Selo , and then in the Tauride Garden .
In St. Petersburg, the house of engineer-general F.V. Baur (1781-1784, Kutuzov embankment 36/2), built by Shpekle, has been preserved.
The military buildings built by Špekle are located in Finland, for example, in the Friedrichsgam Fortress and in the Wilmanstrand Fortress .
In Vyborg , the constructions designed by Shpekle in the Anninsky fortifications , as well as the former governor's palace (1784), originally intended to house the Engineering Team, were preserved.
Since 1782, Speckle taught civil architecture in the Artillery and Engineering Cadet Corps. In 1785 he received Russian citizenship, and in 1793 he was awarded the Order of St. Vladimir for 35 years of impeccable service. He died in St. Petersburg in 1796 ^[1] .

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  Corps de guard of the Anninsky fortifications (1776)

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  Vyborg diocesan center (former palace of the governor, 1784)

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  Baur House (St. Petersburg, 1784)

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  Cordegard Guard of the Friedrichsham Fortress (1776)

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  Garrison guardhouse building in Vyborg (1776, rebuilt in 1857)

• Neuvonen P., Peyuhya T., Mustonen T. Vyborg. Architectural guide / Per. L. Kudryavtseva. - 2nd ed. - Vyborg: “CH”, 2008. - 160 p. - ISBN 5-900096-06-8 .