Vladimir Petrovich Tseidler (1857, 1914) was a renowned Russian architect and academician of architecture at the Imperial Academy of Arts. He designed over 30 buildings in St. Petersburg and other cities.
Tseidler studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts from 1876 to 1880. During his studies, he received several awards: a large encouragement medal in 1878, a small silver medal in 1880, and a small gold medal in 1881 for his design of a 2000-seat theater in the capital. In 1882, he was awarded the title of first-class artist, and in 1866 he became an academician of architecture for his project of a swimming school and baths with a bathhouse on the river in southern Russia.
Tseidler lived in St. Petersburg on Chernyshev Lane, house 14. He held the rank of collegiate councilor and owned the village of Bolshie Kemary in the Nizhny Novgorod province. Tseidler also participated in the construction of the ensemble of the Novodevichy Convent in St. Petersburg.
He worked in the Main Administration of Non-Statutory Collections and State Sale of Spirits since 1909, as well as in the Imperial Philanthropic Society. Tseidler was responsible for the construction of buildings for the All-Russian Art and Industry Exhibition of 1896 in Nizhny Novgorod and served as the senior contractor in the city's construction management.
In 1912, he married Yelizaveta Dmitrievna Pilenko, the daughter of General Dmitry Vasilyevich Pilenko, who previously headed the Black Sea Military District.
Tseidler is buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery in St. Petersburg, in plot 10, but his gravestone has not survived.
Among his significant works in St. Petersburg are the Kapnist House (1902), the design of the savings bank management building with residential wings (1910, 1911), the building of the St. Petersburg Private Commercial Bank (1910, 1911), the building of the physics and mathematics faculty of the Higher Women's Courses (1910, 1911), as well as several apartment buildings constructed in the 1890s and 1900s. In Nizhny Novgorod, he built the buildings of the Volga-Kama Bank (1894, 1898) and the City Duma (1902).
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