Pavel Yulievich Suzor (1844–1919) was a Russia

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n architect

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, president of the Architects Society and count

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.

Suzor graduated from the Saint Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts

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 in 1866. He started to work for the city council in 1873, and in 1883 he started to teach at the Saint Petersburg Institute of Civil Engineering. Suzor practiced Eclecticism

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 and Art Nouveau

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 in his designs. In 1903 Suzor became chairman and president of the Architects Society. In 1907 he cofounded the Museum of Old Saint Petersburg, located at his own house.

Works

Today there are over 80 buildings designed by Pavel Suzor in Saint Petersburg.

Apartment houses

• Nevsky 63 - Nevsky Prospekt 63 (1872)
• Ushakov House - Nevsky Prospekt 49 (1882-1883)
• Egorov House - Nekrasov Street 40 (1883-1884)
• Ratkov-Rozhnov House - Griboedov Canal Embankment 71 (1886-1888)
• Badaev House - Bolshoy Avenue 49 (1902-1903)

Baths

Suzor paid special attention to baths

• Voronin baths - Fonarny Lane 1 (1870-1871)
• Egorov baths - Bolshoy Kazachy Lane 11 (1875-1876)
• Ovchinnikov baths - Bolshaya Pushkarskaya Street 22 (1876-1877)
• Belozerskie baths - Kropotkina Street 1 (1882)

Banks and corporations buildings

• First Mutual Credit Society House - 13 Griboedov Canal Embankment (1888-1890)
• Singer House
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  - Nevsky Prospekt 28 (1902-1904)