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Charles Cameron
b. London, mid-1740s;
d. St Petersburg I (Leningrad), 1811/12.
British architect, creator of integrated building and landscape compositions that brought English aesthetic ideas to the Imperial Russian court of Catherine the Great. He was apprenticed as a carpenter by his father, a builder, but in the early 1760s he was hired, on the basis of his [...]

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 [...]

Ivan Yegorovich Starov
b. Moscow, 1744;
d. St Petersburg, 1808.
Ivan Yegorovich Starov was the founder of the simple, antique-inspired Empire style of Russian classicism, and one of its spatially most original exponents. From a church family, Starov entered the new Moscow University’s gymnasium (secondary school) in 1755, and then from 1758 was among the first pupils [...]