The Brothers Bernardacci, Johann Karlovich (1782–1842) and Joseph Karlovich (1788–1840), natives of

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(in the Italian speaking

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), were architects who arrived in

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in 1822. They created that "сlean new town" ( Princess Mary), which Lermontov found in 1837 at Gorjachevodsk (now

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). Having devoted all of their life to construction on the

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(Pyatigorsk,

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, Stavropol,

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), the Bernardacci created some landmarks connected with the name of Lermontov. In Pyatigorsk they designed ''Restoratsija'', '' Nikolay's'' (nowadays ''Lermontov's'') ''baths'', Diana's grotto, the

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pavilion, a gallery above Elisabeth's (nowadays Academic) spring, the ''house for retired officers'' (in 1837 - a city commandant's office, nowadays a resort clinic), house of E.A.Hastatova (it has not survived), Areshev's houses (in one of them Lermontov became acquainted with Belinsky; the houses have not survived), a garden opposite the ''Nikolay baths'' (nowadays the ''Tsvetnik''), the ''State garden'' (now the '' Gorky Park of Culture'') and others, and also a direct road from Pyatigorsk to

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on which Lermontov travelled before his

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. In Kislovodsk the Bernardacci constructed ''Restoratsija'' (has not survived) and A.F. Rebrov's house.

External links

Lermontov's Encyclopedia
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