Francesco Boffo
Sardinian-born Neoclassical architect
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Francesco Carlo Boffo was a Neoclassical architect who designed more than 30 buildings in Odesa between 1818 and 1861, including the famous Potemkin Stairs. Boffo was probably born in 1796 in Sardinia and he was apprenticed to an architect in Ticino. He then joined the University of Turin before entering the service of the Potocki noble family in Poland. He served as Odesa's chief architect between 1822 and 1844. His patrons included Count Michael Vorontsov and his wife, Elisabeth Branicka. Boffo was responsible for transforming Odesa into the open-air museum of Neoclassical architecture, rivalling St. Petersburg in the north of Imperial Russia.
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