Architects
Among others, he designed and built the following buildings in St. Petersburg: Mikhailovsky Theatre (now Maliy Theater, 1831–1833), Pulkovo Observatory (1834–1839), the Headquarters of Guard Corps on Palace Square (1837–1843). In 1832 Brullov drafted Lutheran Church of St. Peter and St. Paul on the Nevsky Prospekt in the English Gothic style.
He was an architecture academician and a first Vice-President of the Imperial Academy of Arts, he was born on 1st of March 1737 in Maloyaroslavskiy district (Kaluga province), he died on the 2nd of August 1799 in St. Petersburg.
A German architect and designer. He was important for the modernist movement, and several of the movement's leading names (including Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius) in earlier stages of their careers.
Karl Blank was a well-experienced engineer and builder with profound knowledge of specifics of Moscow architectural technical devices. He was born here in 1728. His father Ivan Blank was an architect in St. Petersburg. His ancestors were French Huguenot refugees who settled in Germany.
Russian artist, designer, architect, eclectic, which specialized in the construction of the estate with the Gothic Revival motifs. Manor built-in locks Moscow and Vladimir regions, mansions in Moscow, Kiev, Nizhny Novgorod.
After the death of Andreas Schluter in 1714, his work was taken over by his student, Johann Friedrich Braunstein, whom he had had invited to Russia in 1713.
With a modest talent Bykovskiy was a passionate and progressive reformer in architecture. Seeing that classicism exhausted, sought to create a new style, calling for the use of the architectural heritage of all ages and peoples, thus contributing to the spread of eclecticism.
A favourite sculptor of Nicholas I of Russia. Klodt's most famous group of horse sculptures, the Horse Tamers, was installed at the Anichkov Bridge in 1851. He was also responsible for the bronze statue of Ivan Krylov in the Summer Garden (1848-55). It was the first monument to a poet erected in the Russian Empire.
Giovanni Maria Fontana was an Italian-Swiss architect, born in Lugano, who worked in Russia, on the invitation of Peter the Great. Among his most prominent commissions were those from Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov, to build his various palaces, including the Oranienbaum, often working in tandem with Johann Gottfried Schädel.
Felten Yury Matveyevich was a court architect to Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia.
Famous german architect worked in Königsberg (Kaliningrad). One of his work — Neo-Gothic Church of the Holy Family.
Russian architect, well known as master of Art Nouveau. Specifically in 1904-1906 years built in St. Petersburg Kschessinska mansion in the style of "Northern modern" - different asymmetrical plan and composition uneven volumes.
A Russian Neoclassical architect. Kazakov was one of the most influential Muscovite architects during the reign of Catherine II, completing numerous private residences, two royal palaces, two hospitals,Moscow University, and the Kremlin Senate. Most of his works were destroyed by the Fire of 1812; they were later rebuilt with various degrees of alteration.
A German architect, painter and writer. He was a representative of neoclassicism. Klenze was the architect who got an order to create a project for The New Hermitage.
In 1816, Alexander I assigned Betancourt to find the architect who could rebuild the cathedral; Betancourt pointed at Montferrand. Four original concepts, using as much of the old structure as possible, failed; the fifth was approved in February 1818.
А Russian architect of German origin. Since 1713 he worked in the baroque style in St. Petersburg and Kiev.
Оne of the greatest Russian architects who was able to work in different styles and perfectly combined them. He was born in St.-Petersburg on 26th of July 1859 in the family of German production engineer Osip Schekhtel . In 1915 Franz Albert converted from Catholicism to Orthodoxy and accepted a new name - Fyodor, under which he found his place in Russian architectural history
Andreas Schluter a German sculptor and architect associated with the Petrine Baroque style of architecture and decoration.
A Russian architect. In the late 1830s, Stakenschneider emerged as the chief court architect of Nicholas I of Russia. For this monarch and his children he designed the Mariinsky Palace, Nicholas Palace, New Michael Palace, as well as the Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace for Princess Kochubey. In Peterhof he was responsible for the Farm Palace, the Belvedere Palace, and numerous garden pavilions.
Was an official architect ofImperial Russia during the reign of Nicholas I. His major works include the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, the Grand Kremlin Palace and the Kremlin Armoury in Moscow.
