Marian Lalewicz

Marian Lalewicz studied at Higher Art School at the Imperial Academy of Arts. The recorded working language is Polish and Russian. The field of work recorded is architecture. Places of work recorded in the authority are Saint Petersburg, Moscow and Narva-Jõesuu. Residence is recorded at Saint Petersburg. Employment is recorded with Warsaw University of Technology. Works named in the authority record are Nevsky Prospect 21. Distinctions recorded are Golden Laurel of the Polish Academy of Literature and Commander of the Order of Polonia Restituta.

• Name — Marian Lalewicz • Born — 21 November 1876 • Birthplace — Wyłkowyszki, then the Russian Empire, today Lithuania • Died — 21 August 1944 • Place of death — Warsaw, Poland

Lalewicz finished school at a gimnazjum in Suwałki in 1895. He then studied architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Saint-Petersburg, from which he graduated in 1901. He continued his studies in Sweden, Norway, Germany, Austria and Italy. Until 1917, he taught the history of art and the history of architecture in Saint Petersburg schools, while at the same time designing various buildings in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. After World War I he moved back to newly independent Poland. Between 1925 and 1927 he was the dean of the Architecture Department at the Warsaw Polytechnic, and between 1935 and 1938, he was a rector. He was active in various social organizations dedicated to the preservation of historic buildings.

After the Nazi invasion of Poland, Lalewicz served as a director of the emergency medical services (Pogotwie Techniczne) during the Siege of Warsaw. Under German occupation he was a teacher at one of the secret universities (all education past primary school for Poles had been banned by the Nazis). He was expelled by the Germans from his home in 1943. Lalewicz was executed during the Warsaw Uprising by German units, in the Mass murder on Dzika street on August 21, 1944. A symbolic grave was erected after the war at Warsaw's Powązki Cemetery (244-I-29).

• Illustration — F.L. Martens department store building in Saint Petersburg, designed by Lalewicz.

• Illustration — The dormitory of the State-owned Factory of Military self-propelled Guns (KZVS) in Podlipki, architect M.S. Lyalevich, demolished in 2020.

• The Palace of M.K. Pokotilov in Saint-Petersburg (1909). • The F.L. Mertens department store building in Saint-Petersburg (1911–1912). • The tenement house of M.A. Soloveychik in Saint-Petersburg (1911-1913). • The cinema/theater "Parisiana" in Saint-Petersburg (1913–1914). • An administrative building for the Russo-American Manufacturing Firm "Treugol’nik" in Moscow (1916). • A residential town at the KZVS military plant (State-owned factory of military self-propelled guns), which was built by the British company BEKOS in Podlipki, now Korolyov, Moscow region.

The authorities additionally record the heading Marian-Lyudovik Lyalevich. His recorded languages were Polish and Russian.

Marian Lalewicz worked in architecture. His work is associated with Art Nouveau and Neoclassicism. He was employed by Warsaw University of Technology. He belonged to The Circle of Polish Architects in St. He worked at Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Narva-Jõesuu and Warsaw.

Marian Lalewicz is recorded as having received Golden Laurel of the Polish Academy of Literature and Commander of the Order of Polonia Restituta.