Robert Pflug (; 1 May 1832 – 30 November 1885) was a

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architect. Robert August Pflug was born in

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as the son of a merchant. He studied at the Technological Institute in Saint Petersburg between 1846 and 1850 and thereafter at the

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. In 1860 he went on a study trip to Germany and Italy. From 1862 he worked as an architect in

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, the present-day capital of Latvia, and was a teacher at the Riga Polytechnic Institute (today

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) from 1869 to 1875. Among the buildings designed by Pflug in Riga, the Nativity Cathedral, the House of the Livonian Noble Corporation (designed together with

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and Otto von Sievers; today the Latvian parliament, the ''

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'') and the Haus Szczytt - House of Justynian Niemirowicz-Szczytt (1814-1894)T. Żychliński, Złota Księga Szlachty Polskiej, Rocznik IV, Poznań 1882, s. 370-372 - the building of the present-day Finnish embassy can be mentioned.

Gallery

Flickr - Saeima - 4.maijs Saeimā (6).jpg, The House of the Livonian Noble Corporation in Riga (now Latvian parliament, the ''

'') Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ in Riga.jpg, Nativity Cathedral on the Brīvības boulevard 23, Riga. (1876 - 1884) Raiņa bulvāris 21, Rīga.JPG, Residential building on the Raiņa boulevard 21, Riga. (1875) Church of the Intercession Riga 1.JPG, Church of the Intercession of the Most Holy Mother of God, Riga. (1879)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pflug, Robert Baltic-German people from the Russian Empire Architects from Riga Architects from Saint Petersburg 1832 births 1885 deaths Academic staff of Riga Technical University Academics from Riga