19th Century

Fyodor Klages

Architect, painter, teacher. Born in the family of Andrei Klages in St Petersburg (1814). Studied under Alexander Brullov and Maxim Vorobyov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (from 1830, occasional stu...

Carlo Rossi

Italian architect, applied artist. Born in Naples to ballerina Guertroude Rossi (1775). Moved to Russia with his mother. Designed Yelagin Palace (1816–18), Mikhailovsky Palace (1819–25), General Head...

Nikolai Nikitin

Architect, painter, theatrical designer. Born in St Petersburg in the family of a postal customs official called Stepan Nikitin (1811). Studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1821–33). Foreign fell...

Ivan Kolodin

Architect. Born in St Petersburg (?) as the illegitimate son of a former serf called Pelageya Kolodina and a man called Shtykov (1788). Studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1800–06). Awarded a mi...

Jean-Francois Thomas de Thomon

French architect, draughtsman. Born in Paris (1760). Studied at the Paris Academy of Arts. Worked in Poland (early 1790s) and Austria (1794–98). Lived and worked in Russia (from 1799). Academician of...

Alfred Parland

Scottish architect, painter, teacher. Grandson of John Parland (1758–1842), who taught English to the family of Tsar Paul I. Born in St Petersburg in the family of Alexander Parland from Scotland (17...

Andrei Voronikhin

Architect, painter, draughtsman. Born in Novoe Usolye in Perm Province in the family of a serf of Count Alexander Stroganov called Nikifor Voronikhin (1759). Emancipated from serfdom (1786). Studied ...

Heinrich Stackenschneider

Heinrich (Andrei Ivanovich) Stackenschneider was born at his father’s mill near Gatchina in 1802. He was the grandson of a tanner from Brunswick brought to Russia by Paul I. A lack of money forced hi...

Adam Menelaws

Very little is known about the early biography of Adam Menelaws, who was probably born in Edinburgh around 1753. He came to Russia in 1779 at the request of Charles Cameron, who was looking for skill...

Joseph-Jean Charlemágne (Charlemágne-Baudet)

Joseph-Jean Charlemágne was born in St Petersburg in 1782. He was the son of a French émigré sculptor and the head of a large family of architects and artists. After studying under Charles Cameron at...

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