Architect Carl Gustav Gippius, the younger brother of another famous German architect Otto Gustav Gippius, was born in the family of Gustav Adolf Fomich Gippius, a portrait painter and lithographer. Carl Gustav Gippius graduated from the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts in 1855. Since 1857, Carl Gustav Gippius was an architect and artist at the Transcaspian Trading Society. After the earthquake of 1859 in the city of Shamakhi, which destroyed its ancient structures, Karl Gippius carried out research that served as the basis for the transfer of the provincial center from Shemakhi to Baku. Thanks to this work in Baku, he received the post of provincial and city architect. Carl Gustav Gippius did a lot for the improvement of Baku: he settled the streets and squares, built a stone embankment and erected on it the Governor's House, the building of the Nobility Assembly, several private houses, the building of the Baku Armenian Church. Thanks to the German architect, who defended the inviolability of the Shirvanshahs' Palace complex, which they wanted to turn into a city prison, today we admire this wonderful architectural monument. The architect Carl Gustav Gippius died on August 22, 1880.