Mikhail Eisenstein
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Mikhail Osipovich Eisenstein, (Russian: Михаил Осипович Эйзенштейн, 1867, St. Petersburg - 1921, Berlin), was a Russian architect and civil engineer. Being a German Jew, 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 a well-known Soviet film director.
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