Fyodor Lidval

From 1890 to 1896 Lidvall was a student in the architectural department of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, studying (1894–1896) in the workshop of the eminent architect Leon Benois.

Lidvall began to play a significant role in the architecture of St. Petersburg in the first decade of the Twentieth Century.

One of his early works was an apartment building of the type called in Russia a "finance house", on Kamennoostrov Prospect in St Petersburg, begun in 1899 and completed in 1904.

This building, with its Gothic windows, abundance of decorative elements, and different colors and textures, is often cited as a model of its style.

[1] He designed (with his mentor Leon Benois) the Art Nouveau redesign of the Grand Hotel Europe, which had been opened in 1875.