Hermann Pavlovich Nädler
Hermann Pavlovich Nädler (German: Hermann Friedrich Nädler; 1845, 1917) was a Russian teacher for the blind and a privy councilor. He began his career in 1870 as a German language teacher at the St. Petersburg Mariinsky …
Mark Matveyevich Antokolsky
Mark Matveyevich Antokolsky, born on October 21 (November 2) 1843 in Vilna, was a renowned Russian realist sculptor. In 1871, he became an academician of the Imperial Academy of Arts, and from 1880, a professor of sculpt…
Vladimir Petrovich Tseidler
Vladimir Petrovich Tseidler (1857, 1914) was a renowned Russian architect and academician of architecture at the Imperial Academy of Arts. He designed over 30 buildings in St. Petersburg and other cities.
Tseidler studi…
Nikolai Nikitovich Ievsky
Architect N. N. Ievsky was born in 1740 in the village of Gryazi in the Lipetsk district of the Tambov province, which is now within the city limits of Gryazi, in a noble family.
In 1753 and 1759, he studied at the famo…
Ivan Alekseevich Potapov
Ivan Alekseevich Potapov, chief commandant of the fortress of Saint Dmitry and governor of the Voronezh province, was born in 1722. He was the son of Alexei Semyonovich Potapov, who came from a merchant family in Pereyas…
Dmitry Vasilyevich Ukhtomsky
Prince Dmitry Vasilyevich Ukhtomsky, born in 1719 in the village of Semyonovskoye, passed away on October 4, 1774, in the village of Dubki, Odoevsky district, Tula province. He was a renowned Russian architect and restor…
Catherine II the Great of Anhalt-Zerbst
Catherine II the Great, also known as Sophia Augusta Frederick of Anhalt-Zerbst, was born on April 21, 1729, in Prussia. Her father, Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst, served in the Prussian army and was a commandant, …
Anton-Edward Yevgrafovich Schwartz
Anton-Edward Yevgrafovich Schwartz (born December 7, 1818, in Danzig, Prussia, died April 30, 1892, in St. Petersburg) was a sculptor and an honorary free member of the Academy of Arts since 1870.
From 1825, he lived in…
David Ivanovich Grimm
David Ivanovich Grimm, born on March 22 (April 3) 1823 and died on November 9 (21) 1898, was an outstanding Russian architect and one of the founders of the "Russian style." He served as the chairman of the St. Petersbur…
Alexander Antonovich Kyui
Alexander Antonovich Kyui (1824, 1909) was an architect and academician of the Imperial Academy of Arts, as well as an actual state councilor. He was the brother of composer Caesar Antonovich Kyui.
He was born in Vilno.…
