Georg Frohbusch

Georg Frohbusch (c. 1650–1708), German jeweller, goldsmith, enameller, engraver. Worked at the Gold Chamber and the Kadashyovsky Mint in Moscow (1700–08).
Born: c. 1650, Courland
Died: 1708, Moscow

German jeweller, goldsmith, enameller, engraver. Born in the family of Wilhelm Frohbusch in the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia (c. 1650). Worked at the Gold Chamber in the Moscow Kremlin (c. 1669–1700), where he enamelled a gold heraldic plate for Tsar Alexis Mikhailovich (1675) and ?ontributed to the covers of the Gospels donated by Tsar Feodor III to the Upper Saviour Cathedral and the Church of the Renewal of the Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Jerusalem in the Terem Palace (1677–78). After the Gold Chamber was closed down by Peter the Great (1700), engraved coin dies at the Kadashyovsky Mint in the Kadashi Sloboda (1700–08). Died in Moscow (1708).

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