Krichinsky got acquainted with the architecture of
Italy,
Germany,
France,
Sweden and
Finland. He studied monuments of
Russian architecture in the north and central Russian
provinces. He investigated the issues of resort construction on the
Kuban and the
Black Sea coast in 1916–1917. Krichinsky built 24 buildings in various cities. He took part in the construction of some large buildings in
Saint Petersburg.[3]
From 1918 to 1920 he was a professor of architecture at the
Kuban Polytechnic Institute, and from 1921 at the Institute of Civil Engineers in
Petrograd. Since 1922 he was the head of the Architectural and Construction Department in Petrograd.[citation needed]
He was married to the daughter of
Gleb Uspensky — Maria Glebovna. Her brother, Alexander Uspensky, was also a prominent architect. Stepan and Maria Krichinsky had three children: two sons, Gleb (born 1904) and Boris (born 1905), and a daughter Irina. In 1925—1926 Boris Krichinsky compiled a list of his father's works.[4]
Stepan Krichinsky died in 1923 and was buried in
Volkovo Cemetery in Saint Petersburg.[5]
List of works
The building of the equestrian yard on the estate of A. E. Vorontsova-Dashkova (St. Petersburg, Shuvalovsky Park), 1906
The building of the Institute of Experimental Veterinary Medicine, 1908
The main building of the Brigade of the Separate Border Guard Corps, with the house church in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (St. Petersburg, Krasnogo Kursanta Street, 34), 1913—1914
"Fedorovsky Gorodok" in
Tsarskoye Selo (
Pushkin, Academic Prospect, 14‑30), 1913—1917, in collaboration with V. A. Pokrovsky
People's House and Theater of the Nevsky Society for the Organization of People's Sobriety (St. Petersburg, Shlisselburgsky Tract)
St.
Nicholas of Bari Church of the
Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society (St. Petersburg, intersection of Kalashnikovsky Prospect (now Bakunin Prospect) and Mytninskaya Street), 1913—1915, demolished in 1932
A number of buildings complementing the complex of the City children's hospital (since the 1920s — the Institute of Maternity and Infancy, now the
Saint Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University (corner of Bolshoy Sampsonievsky Prospekt and Litovskaya Street), 1916
Restoration and reconstruction of the buildings of the German embassy, the Buddhist temple, the building of the former
Swedish embassy, 1922
Apartment building (St. Petersburg, Barmaleeva Street, 26), 1912
Suite building and other buildings of the Olgino estate (
Ramon), 1906[6]
The retail store for the officers of the garrison guard, Bolshaya Konyushennaya street 21/23, St. Petersburg
^Степан Самойлович Кричинский. Некролог//Зодчий, 1924, N 1, С.4-5
^Кригер, Лариса Валерьевна. Усадьбы Воронежской области. 2011. — 366 с.
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