Mikhail Eisenstein

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Mikhail Eisenstein, (1867, St. Petersburg - 1921, Berlin), was a Russian architect and civil engineer. Being of Jewish descent, he converted to Orthodox Christianity.[1] He graduated from the Institute of Civic Engineering in St. Petersburg in 1893. He was the designer of a number of Art Nouveau buildings in Riga (now in Latvia). He built several apartment buildings for State Counsellor A. Lebedinsky, including the ones at Alberta iela 4 (1904), 6 (1903) and 13, and at Elizabetes iela 10b (1903)

His son Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein was the well known Soviet film director.

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Elizabetes iela 10b	detail	Alberta iela 4	detail
Alberta iela 2a	Strelnieku iela 4	detail

[edit] References

• History of Alberta iela 13

[edit] External links

• Buildings in Riga by Mikhail Eisenstein