Architect Otto Gustav Gippius

Born on May 5, 1826 in the city of St. Petersburg of the Russian Empire in the family of Gustav Adolf Fomich Gippius, a portrait painter and lithographer. Otto's younger brother, Carl Gustav Gippius, was also an architect. Otto Gippius was educated at the St. Petersburg Gymnasium and the Polytechnic Institute in Karlsruhe, from which he graduated in 1849 with a gold medal. In 1853 he received the title of free artist for his architectural drawings. Arriving to brother Karl in the Caucasus, Otto Gippius prepared designs for a Protestant church in Shamakhi (1868-1869). He is also the author of the Orthodox Cemetery Church in the city of Baku (1871-1872). In 1875-1880, the architect traveled extensively in Azerbaijan, Turkey, Greece and Italy, where he made many sketches and plans. The architect Otto Gustav Gippius died on August 29, 1883.