Baron Fyodor Ivanovich Lidval (Johan Fredrik Lidvall, Swedish: Johan Fredrik Lidvall; May 20 (June 1), 1870 — March 14, 1945) was a Russian-Swedish architect of Swedish citizenship and origin, an academician of the Imperial Academy of Arts, born in Saint Petersburg. His father, Jon Petter Lidval, was born in the village of Bude in the Liden parish of Hälsingland (according to other sources — in Medelpad), came to Russia in 1859, and eventually became a well-known tailor in Petersburg, head of the large sewing workshop "Ivan Petrovich Lidval and Sons," and a supplier to the imperial court. His mother, Ida Amalia Fleschow, was born in Petersburg to a Swedish mother, Eva Lakstrem, born in the Finnish locality of Hausjärvi, and Baltazar Fleschow, a cabinetmaker who came to Russia from the Danish province of Slagelse, South Zealand. Besides Fredrik, the family also had sons Erik Leonard, Wilhelm Baltazar, Edward Theodor, Paul Nicholas, and daughters Maria Ulrika and Anna.

In 1882, Lidval graduated from the primary school at the Evangelical Swedish Church of Saint Catherine, and then from the Second Petersburg Real School (in 1888). He studied for two years at the Baron Stieglitz School of Technical Drawing. During vacations, Fyodor Lidval, like his brothers, twice served in the Royal Life Guards regiment in Stockholm.

From 1890 to 1896, Fyodor Lidval was a student in the architectural department of the Higher Art School at the Imperial Academy of Arts, where from 1894 to 1896 he studied in the workshop of architect L. N. Benois. He graduated from the Higher Art School with the title of artist-architect.

From 1910 to 1917, Lidval taught at the architectural faculty of the Women's Polytechnic Institute, participated in publishing an architectural-artistic magazine, was a member of many competition juries, and himself took part in numerous competitions for designing various buildings. For example, in 1911 he participated in the competition for the design of the building of the Noble Assembly on Italian Street, No. 27 (the project by the Kosyakov brothers won). In 1912, Lidval took part in a closed competition by the Board of the South-Western Railway for the design of the Kiev station building, winning second prize, as well as in a commissioned competition held by the Ministry of Railways and the Academy of Arts for the reconstruction project of the Nikolaevsky station building (in both competitions, projects by V. A. Shchuko won). By 1915, there were two more competition projects: the building of the Volga-Kama Bank for Tiflis (Gudiashvili Street; the building was constructed by Zurabyan) and for Kiev (Khreshchatyk, house No. 10; the building was constructed by Andreev), executed by Lidval together with architect Kosyakov. In the same year, Lidval, together with Kitner, completed a project for a residential building for single workers of the Lysvensky plant in the Perm province (the building was constructed by the Lysva architect Zhdanov).

The most productive period of Lidval's creativity is associated with Saint Petersburg. Since 1899, he became a member of the Petersburg Society of Architects. In 1907, a special commission awarding prizes for the best facades awarded Lidval a silver medal for the facade of the Meltzer house (corner of Bolshaya Konyushennaya Street and Volynsky Lane) and an honorary diploma for the facade of the Zimmermann revenue house (corner of Kamennoostrovsky Prospect and Vologodskaya Street). More than 30 buildings and structures were built in Saint Petersburg according to his designs.

Lidval's works began to play a significant role in the architecture of Saint Petersburg in the 1900s. In the first stage of his creativity (1897–1907), he was a bright representative of the "Northern Modern" style; his pursuits during these years were close to the aspirations of Scandinavian and Finnish architects.

After the February Revolution of 1917, the Swedish military attaché suggested that Lidval send his children and wife to Sweden. The architect had a lot of work and agreed, but he himself could not go. Lidval's family never returned to Petersburg. Lidval's wife briefly came to attend her father's funeral and returned to Sweden. She did not take any valuables, not even withdrawing money from the bank account. A relative of the architect's wife lived for some time in the house on Kamennoostrovsky Prospect, 1–3. Somehow, she managed to transfer part of the property and furniture to Reval (Tallinn). In the autumn of 1923, Lidval's family received all of it.

After October 1917, Lidval lived in Petersburg. He was not subjected to violence and was needed as an architect. But due to the difficult situation in the country, nothing was being built anymore. These hardships and longing for his family were the reasons that, having left for Sweden in the summer of 1918, Lidval never returned to Russia.

Finally, one of the Swedish architects, Albin Stark, gave Lidval work; working in this company, he designed 16 custom houses in Stockholm and also participated in the development of projects for another 7 buildings (mainly as an interior designer). But creative commissions were rare. Mostly, the work was technical. His first independent project was two residential houses on Tjusta Gatan (No. 3 and No. 5, 1922), in which motifs characteristic of Lidval's Petersburg period and Swedish Grace architecture style, distinguished by modesty and restraint, are combined. Among other projects he realized in Stockholm are the building of the Shell oil company on Birger Jarlsgatan and a house on the corner of Torsgatan and Saint Eriksgatan. Also, in the early 1930s, Lidval designed several residential buildings in the functionalism style in Stockholm. According to his daughter Ingrid's recollections, Lidval felt spiritually isolated in Sweden and mourned lost creative opportunities. It is known that in 1932 and 1937 he traveled to Finland, to Terijoki. There he met with Marta, the younger sister of Emmanuel Nobel.

He died in 1945 as a result of a cerebral hemorrhage. He is buried in Stockholm at the Jurskholm Cemetery.

Sources:

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Лидваль,_Фёдор_Иванович

https://www.peoples.ru/art/architecture/fedor_lidval/