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Francesco Carlo Boffo (Cyrillic: Франц Карлович Боффо; 1796-1867) was a Swiss-Italian-born Neoclassical architect who designed more than 30 buildings in Odessa between 1818 and 1861, including the famous Potemkin Stairs. Boffo was probably born in 1796 in Sardinia 〔()〕 and he was apprenticed to an architect in Ticino. He then joined the University of Turin before entering the service of the Potocki noble family in Poland. He served as Odessa's chief architect between 1822 and 1844. His patrons included Prince Michael Vorontsov and his wife, Elisabeth Branicka. Boffo was responsible for transforming Odessa into the open-air museum of Neoclassical architecture, rivalling St. Petersburg in the north of Imperial Russia. The Potocki Palace, Shidlovsky, and Vorontsov Palaces in Odessa were built to his designs, as was the Czarnomski Palace near Bershad (1817). The latter is famed for its uncanny resemblance to the White House. The Potemkin Stairs, Boffo's most ambitious undertaking, was modeled on the earlier Depaldo Stairs, designed by him for the town of Taganrog in 1823. It was Boffo who conceived a 22-metre memorial column for the Kagul battlefield. He also built the Londonskaya Hotel building in 1826-28 as a private residence.〔(Londonskaya Hotel )〕 The architect died in 1867 and he was buried in Odessa. ==References== File:Chekhov Gymnasium (Taganrog).jpg|The Chekhov Gymnasium (Taganrog) File:Vorontsov's Palace (Odessa).JPG|The Vorontsov Palace File:Potemkinsche treppe.jpg|The Potemkin Stairs File:Kollonada.JPG|A semicircular colonnade overlooking the Odessa seaport from a cliff File:Odessa City Duma.jpg|The Odessa City Hall 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Francesco Boffo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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