Leo ( Leib ) Isaacovich Bakhman ( 1830 , Chisinau , Bessarabian province - 1896 , Peterhof ) - Russian architect, representative of the eclectic trend .
| Lev Isaakovich Bachmann | |
|---|---|
 Great Choral Synagogue in St. Petersburg (1893) | |
| Basic information | |
| A country | Russian empire |
| Date of Birth | 1830 |
| Place of Birth | Chisinau , Bessarabian province |
| Date of death | 1896 |
| A place of death | Peterhof |
| Work and Achievements | |
| Study | |
| Worked in the cities | St. Petersburg |
| Architectural style | eclecticism |
| The most important buildings | St. Petersburg Great Choral Synagogue |
The first Jew to graduate from the St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts ( 1852 - 1861 ) [1] [2] . Having never received a residence permit in St. Petersburg , he lived in the suburbs until the end of his life.
Main works: the project of a monument to A.S. Pushkin for Moscow (1860), the project of the Great Choral Synagogue for 1200 seats and the adjacent complex of buildings in St. Petersburg (together with I. I. Shaposhnikov , 1869 - 1871 ), residential buildings in the vicinity of St. Petersburg [ 3] .
The synagogue, according to the description of Osip Mandelstam , “with its conical caps and onion-like spheres, like a magnificent alien fig tree”, was built on a site along Officerskaya and Bolshaya Masterskaya Streets (now Dekabristov Street and Lermontovsky Prospekt) in 1893 . The Arab-Moorish style for the main Jewish temple of the city was chosen on the advice of the literary critic V.V. Stasov . The construction was carried out by A.V. Malov and B.I. Girshovich .