Johann Edel
Johann Edel or Ivan Edel – Russian architect of German origin, and state councilor. Architect of many historical buildings in Baku, Azerbaijan, such as Isa bek Hajinski House, Mitrofanov's Residence, House with Griffins. Biography Young years Johann Wilhelmovich Edel was born in 1863 in the German colony Bilovach, Borznyansky Uyezd, Chernigov province, in the family of Wilhelm Genrikhovich Edel, the honorary citizen of German origin, who later worked at the Baku lighthouse. After baptism in the Orthodox Church, Johann Wilhelmovich Edel received the name Johann Vasilievich, and was known in the world as Ivan Vasilievich. While studying at the School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture of the Moscow Art Society, Edel created a project for a Lutheran prayer house, school and parsonage, and in 1886 he drew up an original project for the buildings of the Lutheran community in Baku. According to the project, however, only a school and an Evangelical Lutheran Church were built. His professor was A. K. Savrasov. He graduated from college with a gold medal he received for the drawing "In the Bath". Due to the fact that Edel's uncle and father worked in Baku, shortly after graduating from college, in the late 1880s, Ivan Vasilyevich