Career
Bondarenko trained at Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture from 1887 to 1891 (class of Alexander Kaminsky), completing education at the Zurich Polytechnikum in 1894 and Fyodor Schechtel firm (1895–1896). He travelled within Russia throughout the 1890s, studying traditional architecture of the North and Volga regions. He was well skilled in Art Nouveau interior design, taking part in Ivan Fomin"s 1902 Art Nouveau exhibition.
Congregations responded with numerous new construction projects.
Bondarenko, well-known to influential community leaders, became the foremost architect for Belokrinitskaya Hierarchy. This was followed by churches in Noginsk, Riga, Kashin, Orekhovo-Zuevo, three more churches in Moscow.
He also worked for the State Church, completing the Shuya Cathedral in 1912. Bondarenko adored the Moscow variety of Neoclassicism, and was engaged in studies of this style since 1904.
In particular, he discovered and published the original drawings of Domenico Giliardi and Afanasy Grigoriev (1913), and wrote the first biography of Matvey Kazakov (1912).
In 1921, Bondarenko returned to Moscow, and worked in various soviet institutions until his death in 1947. In the 1930s, he returned to architecture, working with historical buildings, notably his 1938 expansion of Bakhrushin Museum of Theatre and 1933 expansion of Moscow Conservatory. He held title of chief architect of Vagankovo Cemetery, chief architect of Mosenergo, and was engaged in numerous consultancies regarding old buildings, including the 1938-1940 surveys of Saint Basil"s Cathedral.
His last assignment has been the restoration of Matvey Kazakov"s Travel Palace in Tver, damaged during World World War World War II
