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Horodetsky, Vladyslav

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Horodetsky, Vladyslav [Городецький, Владислав; Horodec'kyj; Polish: Leszek Dezydery Władysław Horodecki], b 4 June 1863 in Sholudky, Bratslav county, Podilia gubernia, d 3 January 1930 in Teheran, Iran. Architect. A graduate of the Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg (1890), he worked for many years in Kyiv, where he designed such buildings as the Art and History Museum (now the National Art Museum of Ukraine) in the classicist style (1897–1900), a Karaite synagogue in a Moorish style (1899–1900), a Roman Catholic Church of Saint Nicholas in stylized Gothic style (1899–1909), and the famous ‘House with Chimeras’ on Bankova Street (1902–3). He designed numerous schools, churches, and industrial buildings in the Kyiv region, Uman, Cherkasy, and Simferopol. In 1920 he moved to Warsaw and in 1928 to Iran, where he built the royal palace and other buildings.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 2 (1988).]



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