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Pyotr Mikhailovich Yeropkin (ca. 1698–1740) was a Russian
/ref> Among his major commissions were the palaces for Andrei Osterman, Chancellor Osterman, Prince Tcherkassky, and Volynsky. After Volynsky's fall from grace he was tried and executed with him. Empress Elizabeth had a monument erected to Yeropkin's memory near his tomb in St. Sampson's Cathedral. The current memorial by Alexander Opekushin was raised in the late 19th century at the behest of historian Mikhail Semevsky. No buildings by Yeropkin survive, but he is still remembered as the first ethnically Russian town-planner and the first translator of
Pyotr Mikhailovich Yeropkin (ca. 1698–1740) was a Russian architect
An architect is a person who plans, designs, and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...
credited with replanning Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the List of cities and towns in Russia by population, second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the Neva, River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland ...
after Peter the Great
Peter I (, ;
– ), better known as Peter the Great, was the Sovereign, Tsar and Grand Prince of all Russia, Tsar of all Russia from 1682 and the first Emperor of Russia, Emperor of all Russia from 1721 until his death in 1725. He reigned j ...
's death. It was Yeropkin who designed the famous Trident of the Nevsky, Voznesensky, and Gorokhovaya thoroughfares as the city's structural center. Dmitri Olegovich Shvidkovski. ''Russian Architecture and the West''. Yale University Press, 2007. Pages 208-210. He demanded that "no obstacle to the view of the Admiralty spire should be permitted" and insisted on the primacy of the embankments.
The scion of a noble family, Yeropkin was one of the first professionally trained Russian architects. After 8-years study in Italy he worked in St. Petersburg under Domenico Trezzini
Domenico Trezzini (; – 1734) was an Italian Swiss architect who elaborated the Petrine Baroque style of Russian architecture.
Biography
Domenico was born in Astano, Landvogtei of Lugano (at that time a condominium of the Old Swiss C ...
and Niccolo Michetti. He was a relative of Artemy Volynsky, one of Empress Anne's closest advisors, and built the notorious ice palace on her request./ref> Among his major commissions were the palaces for Andrei Osterman, Chancellor Osterman, Prince Tcherkassky, and Volynsky. After Volynsky's fall from grace he was tried and executed with him. Empress Elizabeth had a monument erected to Yeropkin's memory near his tomb in St. Sampson's Cathedral. The current memorial by Alexander Opekushin was raised in the late 19th century at the behest of historian Mikhail Semevsky. No buildings by Yeropkin survive, but he is still remembered as the first ethnically Russian town-planner and the first translator of
Palladio
Andrea Palladio ( , ; ; 30 November 1508 – 19 August 1580) was an Italian Renaissance architect active in the Venetian Republic. Palladio, influenced by Roman and Greek architecture, primarily Vitruvius, is widely considered to be one ...
's books into Russian.
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