Andreyan Dmitrievich Zakharov
b. St Petersburg (Leningrad), 1761;
d. St Petersburg, 1811.
Andreyan Dmitrievich Zakharov was a Leading Russian classicist of the early c19. Son of a minor admiralty official, Zakharov entered the preparatory school of the Academy of Arts in 1767, ultimately graduating from its Architecture School in 1782 with the gold medal. The prize took him [...]

John Wood the Elder and Younger
John Wood the Elder, b. Bath, 1704; d. Bath, 1754.
John Wood the Younger, b. Bath, 1727; d. Batheaston, 1781.
John Wood the Elder was a prominent architect in English Palladianism during the first half of the C18. Son of a builder, he began his apprenticeship as a joiner in London at [...]