Architect Robert Marfeld

Robert Marfeld was born in 1852 in Germany, where he graduated from the Polytechnic Institute in Karlsruhe. Then he studied at the Vienna Academy of Civil Engineering. He received his third diploma, which was an extraordinary rarity in those years, at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St.Petersburg. Robert Marfeld began his career at the Ministry of the Interior in Germany, where they needed drawing technicians for the Technical and Construction Committee. For the next few years, Robert Marfeld worked as an architect in St. Petersburg (Russia). In 1896-1900, he made a number of projects for educational buildings built in various cities of the Russian Empire. In Baku, Robert Marfeld projected the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, the second largest Orthodox cathedral in the world after the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. The architect Robert Marfeld died in 1921.