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Architect, teacher. Born in the family of Stepan Melnikov and Elena Repkina in Moscow (1890). Graduated from the painting (1913) and architectural (1917) sections of the Moscow School of Painting, Sc...
French architect, draughtsman. Born in Paris (1760). Studied at the Paris Academy of Arts. Worked in Poland (early 1790s) and Austria (1794–98). Lived and worked in Russia (from 1799). Academician of...
Scottish architect, painter, teacher. Grandson of John Parland (1758–1842), who taught English to the family of Tsar Paul I. Born in St Petersburg in the family of Alexander Parland from Scotland (17...
Architect, painter, draughtsman. Born in Novoe Usolye in Perm Province in the family of a serf of Count Alexander Stroganov called Nikifor Voronikhin (1759). Emancipated from serfdom (1786). Studied ...
Heinrich (Andrei Ivanovich) Stackenschneider was born at his father’s mill near Gatchina in 1802. He was the grandson of a tanner from Brunswick brought to Russia by Paul I. A lack of money forced hi...
Very little is known about the early biography of Adam Menelaws, who was probably born in Edinburgh around 1753. He came to Russia in 1779 at the request of Charles Cameron, who was looking for skill...
Joseph-Jean Charlemágne was born in St Petersburg in 1782. He was the son of a French émigré sculptor and the head of a large family of architects and artists. After studying under Charles Cameron at...
Jean-Baptiste-Michel Vallin de la Mothe was born in Angoulême in south-west France in 1729. After studying in Paris and Rome, he went to St Petersburg in 1759 to teach architecture at the Academy of ...
Giacomo Quarenghi was born in the small town of Rota d’Imagna near Bergamo in 1744. His fate was decided when he visited and fell in love with Rome in 1763. Inspired by the majestic ruins and ancient...
Antonio Rinaldi was born in Italy in 1710 and studied under Luigi Vanvitelli in Naples. He was first invited to Russia by Kirill Razumovsky, the last hetman of the Ukraine, to build at his capital in...