Vasily Ivanovich Demut-Malinovsky was a Russian

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whose works represent the quintessence of the

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Biography

He entered the

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at the age of six and studied under

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for fifteen years. Upon the death of his teacher, he won a competition to design his tomb and departed for

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to study with

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. Success came to him with two colossal statues for the Kazan Cathedral in St Petersburg. In the aftermath of the Russian victory over Napoleon, Demut-Malinovsky executed a number of patriotic pieces, including a tomb and a large statue of

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. Later

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assigned to him the task of preparing bas-reliefs symbolizing the Neva and the Volga for the Alexander Column on

Palace Square Palace Square ( rus, Дворцо́вая пло́щадь, r=Dvortsovaya Ploshchad, p=dvɐˈrtsovəjə ˈploɕːɪtʲ), connecting Nevsky Prospekt with Palace Bridge leading to Vasilievsky Island, is the central city square of St Petersburg ...

. Demut-Malinovsky also designed statuary and decorations for other St Petersburg churches, palaces, and public monuments, especially those designed by Carlo Rossi: the General Staff Building, the Bourse, the Admiralty, the Mining Institute, the Egyptian Gate, the Narva Gate, and the

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Works

File:Главный штаб9298.jpg, Sculptural composition on the arch of the General Staff Building File:Statue in Saint Petersburg, Russia.jpg,

Andrew the Apostle Andrew the Apostle ( grc-koi, Ἀνδρέᾱς, Andréās ; la, Andrēās ; , syc, ܐܰܢܕ݁ܪܶܐܘܳܣ, ʾAnd’reʾwās), also called Saint Andrew, was an apostle of Jesus according to the New Testament. He is the brother of Simon Pet ...

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(

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Mikhail Muravyov Mikhail Nikolayevich Muravyov may refer to: *Mikhail Nikitich Muravyov Mikhail Nikitich Muravyov or Murav'ev (russian: Михаил Никитич Муравьёв; – ) was a Russian poet and prose writer, "one of the best educated and mos ...

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Alexander Suvorov Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov (russian: Алекса́ндр Васи́льевич Суво́ров, Aleksándr Vasíl'yevich Suvórov; or 1730) was a Russian general in service of the Russian Empire. He was Count of Rymnik, Count of the Holy ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Demut-Malinovsky, Vasily Neoclassical sculptors 19th-century sculptors from the Russian Empire 19th-century male artists from the Russian Empire 18th-century sculptors from the Russian Empire Russian male sculptors 1779 births 1846 deaths Burials at Tikhvin Cemetery