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Jeweller
Pyotr Afinogenov
Jeweller, silversmith. Employed at Vasily Matveyev Kunkin’s workshop (1751–61) and the Silver Workshop in Moscow (1762–76). Created religious ornaments for the Solovetsky Monastery (1750s) and six silver dishes for Catherine the Great (1776).