Alfred Parland

Scottish architect, painter, teacher. Grandson of John Parland (1758–1842), who taught English to the family of Tsar Paul I. Born in St Petersburg in the family of Alexander Parland from Scotland (1799–1887) and his German wife Maria Caroline Hellmann (1842). Studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1863–74). Fellow of the Imperial Academy of Arts in Germany, Italy and Paris (1874–77). Academician of architecture (1881), honorary member of the Imperial Academy of Arts (1905). Taught at the Imperial Academy of Arts and the Baron Stieglitz Central School of Technical Drawing, professor (1892). Designed houses and churches in Novgorod, Pskov and Smolensk provinces, Church of the Saviour on Spilled Blood in St Petersburg and regimental chapels in Peterhof and Tsarskoe Selo. Died in Petrograd and buried at the Smolensk Cemetery (1919).