Giacomo Quarenghi

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Giacomo Quarenghi Giacomo Quarenghi (20 or 21 September 1744 – 2 March [ O.S. 18 February] 1817) was the foremost and most prolific practitioner of Palladian architecture in Imperial Russia , particularly in Saint Petersburg . Ананьева Елена Группа 411

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Career under Catherine II Quarenghi's first important commission in Russia was the English Palace in Peterhof , a magnificent rectangular edifice with a Corinthian portico . The structure, which pleased the Empress immensely, was blown up by the Germans during World War II and was later demolished by the Soviet government. In 1783 Quarenghi settled with his family in Tsarskoe Selo , where he would supervise the construction of the Alexander Palace , the most ambitious of his undertakings to date.

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Appointed to the post of Catherine's court architect, Quarenghi went on to produce a prodigious number of designs for the Empress, her successors and members of her court: houses, summerhouses, bridges, theatres, hospices, a market, a bank building, interior decorations and garden designs. His projects were put into execution as far away from the capital as Novhorod-Siverskyi , Ukraine where a cathedral was constructed to his designs.

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In Moscow , he was responsible for the reconstruction of medieval Red Square in a fashionable neo-Palladian mode. Count Nicholas Sheremetev engaged him to devise a theatre hall in the Ostankino Palace and a semicircular collonnade for the Sheremetev Hospital . Most of Quarenghi's designs intended for Moscow were subsequently realized with significant modifications by other architects, as was the case with Gostiny Dvor (1789-1805), Catherine Palace (1782-87), and Sloboda Palace (1790-94).