Nikolai Markov (architect)
{{short description|Iranian architect}}
{{Infobox architect
| name = Nikolai Markov
| image = Nikolai Markovv.jpg
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| nationality = Russian
| birth_date = 9 January 1883
| birth_place = Tbilisi, Russian Empire (now Georgia)
| death_date = {{death date and age|1957|11|19|1883|1|9|df=y}}
| death_place = Tehran, Imperial State of Iran
| resting_place = Doulab Cemetery, Tehran
| practice =
| significant_buildings = {{ubl|Tehran Municipality Palace|Alborz High School|Holy Mother of God Church, Tehran|Fakhr al-Dawla Mosque|Qasr Prison|Jeanne d'Arc School}}
| significant_projects =
| significant_design =
| alma_mater = {{ubl|Imperial Academy of Arts|Saint Petersburg University}}
| awards =
}}
Nikolai Lvovich Markov ({{langx|ru|Николай Львович Марков}}, {{langx|fa| نیکولای مارکف}}, 9 January 1883 – 19 November 1957) was a Russian architect working in Iran.
Biography
Nikolai Markov was born in Tiflis and was educated at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg and at the Persian Department of the Oriental Faculty of Saint Petersburg University.{{Cite web |script-title=ru:Знай наших! Николай Марков – архитектор, построивший Тегеран |url=https://russkiymir.ru/publications/323021/ |access-date=2024-10-26 |lang=ru |website=russkiymir.ru}}
Prior to his decisive settling in Iran, Markov was a high-ranking member of the Imperial Russian army, and fought in the Caucasus against the Bolsheviks under Colonel Nikolai Baratov, the commander of the Russian forces in Iran and to whose staff he was attached, and had served with the fanatically anti-Bolshevik Major-General Lazar Bicherakhov, another one of Baratov's senior officers.{{cite book|last1=Cronin|first1=Stephanie|editor1-last=Cronin|editor1-first=Stephanie|title=Iranian-Russian Encounters: Empires and Revolutions Since 1800|date=2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0415624336|page=173|chapter=Deserters, converts, Cossacks and revolutionaries: Russians in Iranian military service, 1800–1920}} A supporter of the White movement, in the years around and after the Bolshevik Revolution he served as a captain in the Persian Cossack Brigade under General Vsevolod Starosselsky.
Markov later worked for the Municipality of Tehran where he built many buildings.{{Cite web|url=http://www.iran-daily.com/1389/5/11/MainPaper/3741/Page/6/MainPaper_3741_6.pdf |title=Tehran Building Manifests European Architecture |work=www.iran-daily.com |language=fr}}{{Cite news |url=http://www.darioush-shahbazi.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=78&Itemid=12 |title=Nikolai Markov 1882- 1957 / 1261 -1336 |work=www.darioush-shahbazi.com |language=fa }}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FkAXHQKE6MkC&q=%22Nikolai+Marcoff%22&pg=PA131 |title=Culture and customs of Iran Par Elton L. Daniel,ʻAlī Akbar Mahdī |isbn=9780313320538 |language=fr|last1=Daniel |first1=Elton L. |last2=Mahdī |first2=ʻalī Akbar |year=2006 }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.izvestia.ru/special/article3100093/ |title=Article Izvestia du 12.01.07 |work=www.izvestia.ru |lang=ru }} Amongst his works are the Alborz High School, the Post Office and Telecommunications Center of Tehran,{{Cite web |url=http://www.teheran.ir/spip.php?article327 |title=La revue de Théhéran - Du messager à cheval au courrier électronique Le Musée des Postes et Télécommunications de l'Iran |work=www.teheran.ir|language=fr}} factories, and a mosque.{{Cite web |date=May 31, 2018 |script-title=fa:مسجد فخرالدوله یادگاری از زن کاردان قاجار |trans-title=Fakhr al-Dawla mosque, a relic of a deft Qajar woman |url=http://newspaper.hamshahrionline.ir/ |access-date=2021-08-27 |website=Hamshahri Online |lang=fa }}{{cite url |url=http://www.chn.ir/NSite/FullStory/News/?Id=82938&Serv=0&SGr=0 |title=Tehran Mosque Fakhr |work=CHN.ir |access-date=2015-10-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304111239/http://www.chn.ir/NSite/FullStory/News/?Id=82938&Serv=0&SGr=0 |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead }} He was buried at the Doulab Cemetery.
Gallery
File:Russian section of Doulab Cemetery 5656.jpg]]
File:Sakhteman Shahrdari Tehran.jpg|Tehran Municipality Palace
File:Tehran Post Museum.jpg|Post Museum (formerly Post Headquarters)
File:Dar ul-Funun Courtyard 20120326-112041.jpg|New Dar ul-Funun
File:نوشیروان جی تاتا.jpg|Anoushirvan High School
File:Professor Adl house - Cropped.JPG|Adle House
File:Markov Building Qasr Museum.jpg|Qasr Prison{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/iran-blog/2016/feb/11/qasr-prison-iran-pictures | title=From palace to prison: Iran's Qasr – in pictures | work=The Guardian / The Tehran Bureau |author1=Marketa Hulpachova |author2=Sourena Parham | date=February 11, 2016 |access-date=December 26, 2017}}
File:MGCC 9770 2.jpg|Holy Mother of God Church, Tehran
File:Alborz DSCF3155.jpg|Alborz High School
File:ساختمان سينگر، نماي مجاور.jpg|Singer Headquarters
File:Jeanne d Arc School Iran Tehran MainCourtyard.jpg|Jeanne d'Arc School
File:آرامگاه شاهزاده گرجی 3.jpg|Georgian Prince Mausoleum
File:Varamin sugar refinery 3.jpg|Varamin sugar refinery
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