(b 1844; d St Petersburg, 1919). Russian architect. A graduate of the St Petersburg Academy of Arts, he designed over 100 residential and public buildings in St Petersburg. Among his most important projects were the ten houses he built on Pushkin Street (1876). In spite of these buildings’ uniformity of plan, the decoration of their façades is eclectic. Syuzor constructed several large corner buildings, such as 71 Yekaterininsky (now Griboyedov) Canal (1886–8), and began to develop his own architectural style, using distinctive two-storey oriel windows, corner towers and decorative sculptures, all faced in stucco in Baroque Revival style. In 1898–1900 he erected two complexes, each occupying an entire block: 32–34 Kirochnaya (now Saltykov-Shchedrin) Street and 13–15 Panteleymonovskaya (now Pestel’) Street. In both structures, two buildings are joined by a triumphal arch. The façades were located within the courtyard and metal was used for decorative purposes. Combining the magnificence of aristocratic palaces with the scale of commercial buildings, they are the ultimate achievement in 19th-century stuccoed eclecticism in St Petersburg and reveal Syuzor’s dependence on his French contemporaries. In 1902–4 he built the Singer company building on Nevsky Prospect. With its use of stone, metal and sculptures by Amandus Adamson on the main façades, the glass tower and the innovative structural solutions, this building is among the outstanding achievements of Art Nouveau architecture. Syuzor was one of the founders of the magazine Zodchiy (‘Architect’), the organizer of the first conferences of architects, construction engineers and cement technologists in Russia, and in 1907 the founder of the historico-architectural society, Old St Petersburg (Stary Petersburg). He was married to the daughter of Aleksandr Bryullov.

• Syuzor, Pavel (Yul'yevich), Count
  • Adamson, Amandus