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  • Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli

    Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli was an Italian Baroque architect. He was born in Florence in 1700 in the family of the Italian sculptor Bartolomeo Carlo Rastrelli, who worked at the court of King Loui...

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  • Bartolomeo Carlo Rastrelli

    Italian sculptor, architect. Father of Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli. Bartolomeo Carlo Rastrelli was born in Florence in 1675. He studied as an architect in Florence, Rome and Paris. In 1716, when h...

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  • Johann Gottfried Schädel

    Johann Gottfried Schädel was born circa 1680 in the town of Wandsbek near Hamburg. In 1712, he was offered employment by Prince Alexander Menshikov, who was with the Russian army in Pomerania and pla...

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  • Francesco Fontana

    Francesco Fontana is possibly one of the most enigmatic architects of this period. Virtually nothing is known of him – and what is known is often confused with another Italian architect with the same...

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  • Mikhail Zemtsov

    Mikhail Zemtsov is an important name in the history of Russian culture. A true “fledgling” of the nest of Peter the Great, he was greatly indebted to the tsar for his professional career and fame. Mi...

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  • Jean-Baptiste-Alexandre Le Blond

    Jean-Baptiste-Alexandre Le Blond was born in Paris in 1679. He was the son of Jean Le Blond, a leading artist and member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. As a young boy, he showed ...

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  • Nicola Michetti

    Despite his rivalry with Johann Friedrich Braunstein, Nicola (Niccolò) Michetti still managed to do a great deal during his five years in Russia. He was born in Rome circa 1675 and studied under the ...

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  • Johann Friedrich Braunstein

    After the death of Andreas Schlüter in 1714, his work was taken over by his student, Johann Friedrich Braunstein, whom he had had invited to Russia in 1713. Braunstein initially worked for Schlüter a...

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  • Andreas Schlüter

    Andreas Schlüter was a leading German master and court architect to the kings of Prussia. He came to Russia in 1713 at the age of fifty-two, at the instigation of James David Bruce, a Scottish milita...

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  • Georg Friedrich von Veldten

    Architect. Born in St Petersburg in the family of a German immigrant called Georg Veldten (1730). Worked for the Chancellery of Construction (from 1762). Designed the Old Hermitage, Çesme Palace, Çes...

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