Alexander Sergeyevich Khrenov, born in 1860 in St. Petersburg and died on January 13, 1926, in Viljuyif, was an architect, draftsman, watercolorist, decorator, and stained glass artist of the Art Nouveau era.

He came from a peasant family of land surveyor Sergey Antonovich Khrenov from the village of Vetoshkino, who lived from 1822 to 1888. His brother Mikhail Khrenov, born in 1871, was a landscape painter. Alexander studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, graduating in 1884. In 1888, he became the chief architect of St. Isaac's Cathedral and a teacher at the drawing school of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts. He was also a member of the board of the Society of Russian Watercolorists. At the request of Nicholas II, Khrenov created a series of watercolors titled 'Imperial Hunt.' In St. Petersburg, he built or reconstructed more than 30 buildings. He was acquainted with Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich the Younger and, at his request, built a palace, the last constructed for a member of the Romanov family. In 1914, he was awarded the title of Actual State Councilor.

After the revolution, Khrenov remained in Petrograd until 1918, then moved to Harbin via Vladivostok. He continued to work in construction in China, after which he briefly moved to Chicago. He later returned to Paris, where he died in the suburbs in 1926. He was buried at the Kremlin-Bisetr cemetery. He had three sons: Dmitry Alexandrovich, a White officer and governor of Chukotka during the Civil War, an explorer of Alaska; Sergey Alexandrovich, who died on the front in 1917; and Boris Alexandrovich, an artist. His grandson, James Krenov (Dmitry Dmitrievich Khrenov), born in 1920, became a renowned American carpenter and died in 2009. Alexander's nephew, Ivan Palmov, was also an architect. Khrenov's descendants live in Sweden and America.