Carl Emil Michael Schmidt (russian: Карл Карлович Шмидт, translit=Karl Karlovič Šmidt;December 21, 1866 – 8 August 1945) was a Russo-German

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and philatelist. Born in St. Petersburg, his father Karl Friedrich Adolf Ferdinand Schmidt was a German marine engineer from

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and mother Olga Helena Schmidt was a Baltic German. He is known as a representative of the "brick-style" and the early

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in architecture. Carl Schmidt studied at the

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. His villas and houses adorn the streets of St. Petersburg. In autumn 1918 the Schmidt family was forced to leave Russia and back to Germany. In Germany, he could not follow on his architectural work. He died in 1945 in

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Selected works

* 1897/98. Villa of V. Tiss. Sjezzhinskaya ul, 3 * 1897/99. Alexandra asylum for women. Bolshoy prospekt V. O., 49-51 * 1899/1900. Building of the Faberge firm. Bolshaya Morskaya ul., 24 * 1900/01. Villa and the office of Paul Forostovski. 4 liniya V. O., 9 * 1900/04. Own villa in Pavlovsk. 2-ya Krasnoflotskaya ul., 7 * 1901/02. Apartment house. Chersonskaya ul., 13 * 1907. New building for a girls' school of Emilie Schaffe. 5-ya liniya O. V., 16 Osobnyak tisa 1.jpg, Villa of V. Tiss Alexandrinskiy priut 8.JPG, Alexandra asylum Sede fabergé.JPG, Building of the Fabergé firm Dacha schmidta 1.jpg, Carl Schmidt's villa in Pavlovsk

Selected works

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