Francesco Boffo
Francesco Carlo Boffo (
Cyrillic: Франц Карлович Боффо; 8 September 1796 – Cherson, 10 November 1867) was a Neoclassical architect who designed more than 30 buildings in Odesa between 1818 and 1861, including the famous Potemkin Stairs
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Boffo was probably born in 1796 in
St. Petersburg in the north of Imperial Russia
.
The
Vorontsov Palaces in Odesa were built to his designs, as was the Czarnomski Palace near Bershad (1817). The latter is famed for its uncanny resemblance to the White House. The Potemkin Stairs, Boffo's most ambitious undertaking, was modeled on the earlier Depaldo Stairs, designed by him for the town of Taganrog in 1823. It was Boffo who conceived a 22-metre memorial column for the Kagul battlefield. He also built the Londonska Hotel building in 1826–28 as a private residence.[4]
The architect died in 1867 and he was buried in Odesa.
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The Chekhov Gymnasium (Taganrog)
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The Vorontsov Palace
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The Potemkin Stairs
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A semicircular colonnade overlooking the Odesa seaport from a cliff
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The Odesa City Hall
References
- ^ "Treccani - la cultura italiana | Treccani, il portale del sapere".
- ^ "Как Франц Боффо построил Одессу". 3 November 2010.
- ^ https://www.ofam.org.ua/ua/about Fine Arts Museum Odessa
- ^ "Londonskaya Hotel". Archived from the original on 1 January 2014. Retrieved 13 December 2014.