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. However, later it turned out that after 1945 Wilhelm Baumgarten emigrated to
Argentina together with his family. The last years of his life he spent in
Buenos Aires. There Baumgarten served as a chairman of The in South America and (since 1949) was the leader of the
Peter Wrangel's
Russian All-Military Union local department. He died on May 13, 1962. Buried at the
Cementerio Británico not far from
La Chacarita Cemetery in Buenos Aires. == Family ==