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Anton-Edward Yevgrafovich Schwartz

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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 St. Petersburg. Schwartz graduated from the Peter and Paul School and studied sculpture at the Academy of Arts. He worked as an assistant to renowned sculptors I.P. Vitali, I.I. Reimers, R.K. Zaleman, and D.I. Jensen during the construction of St. Isaac's Cathedral and the renovation of the Hermitage. Among his works are the figures for the monument to Nicholas I in St. Petersburg (1859) and the monument to the 1000th anniversary of Russia in Novgorod (1862).

Schwartz also created sculptures to decorate the Salt Town in St. Petersburg in the 1870s, as well as for the palaces of grand dukes and private individuals in the city.

From 1858 to 1860, he worked on the monument to Peter I in Voronezh, which was unveiled on August 30, 1860. The original concept of the monument was by D.I. Grimm, and the architect was A.A. Kyuie.

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