Vasily Baumgarten

Vasily (Wilhelm) Fyodorovich von Baumgarten (; October 30 , 1879 — May 13, 1962) was Russian Empire and Yugoslavian architect and military engineer.

Biography

Russian Empire

Vasily was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. He graduated from the Emperor Alexander II's Cadet Corps at 1897, then from the Nicholas Pavlovich's engineering school at 1900 and Nikolaevsky Engineering Academy at 1905 in St. Petersburg. Because of the October Revolution and Russian Civil War in September 1918 Vasily Baumgarten joined the White movement. In January 1919 he joined the Anton Denikin's Volunteer Army as a procurement manager for engineer units. as well as an architect of the corresponding department in the Ministry of Civil Construction. He has become best known as an originator of the Royal Yugoslav Armed Forces General Staff headquarter building design and the design of the Emperor Nicholas II's Russian House (Ruski dom) in Belgrade.

The interbellum politics of Vasily Baumgarten were panslavistic. Branch building of the State Mortgage Bank in Pančevo (1940; together with the engineer Solodov).

The last years of his life For a long time in Yugoslavia it was believed the architect Baumgarten has not survived World War II times, although the date and place of his death haven't been known. The couple had sons and there is an information of a granddaughter named Marina.