Two Neo-Renaissance buildings by Nikolai Efimov – part of the St. Isaac’s Square ensemble

The building of the Ministry of Agriculture and State Property – Research Institute of Plant Industry. N. I. Vavilova, №4

Address: St. Petersburg, Isaakievskaya sq., 4
Architects: Efimov N. E.
Year built: 1844-1853
Style: Neo-Renaissance

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House of the Minister of State Property – Research Institute of Plant Growing, №13

Isaakievskaya sq., 13
Architects: Efimov N. E.
Year built: 1847-1853
Style: Neo-Renaissance

The buildings are an important part of the St. Isaac’s Square ensemble.

Nikolai Efimovich Efimov (May 9, 1799, Yakovlevka village, Oboyansky district, Kursk province – September 11, 1851, St. Petersburg) – Russian architect of late Russian classicism, academician and professor of architecture at the Imperial Academy of Arts. One of the main representatives of the neo-Renaissance architectural style in St. Petersburg.

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