Domenico Trezini Biography

This canton, inhabited mainly by Italians, gave the world a galaxy of architects, including more masters who constantly worked in Russia. Unfortunately, there is practically no information about the life of the architect: it is only known that Domenico Andrea received his education in Italy, then he worked in Denmark, where he received an invitation from the Izmailov ambassador to get a fortifier as a fortifier.

This proposal determined the whole further fate of the architect: from now on, until his death, he lived and worked in St. Petersburg. Being the closest assistant to Peter the Great, the architect actually heads all St. Petersburg construction. So, it was according to his projects that the Alexander Nevskaya Lavra and Kronstadt were laid, part of the regular layout of the Vasilievsky Island was carried out, the restructuring of the Peter and Paul Fortress was launched, the emperor’s summer palace in the Summer Garden, the Peter and Paul Cathedral, the Peter's Gate, the Galer Gavan, the building of the Twelve Collages and many others that have not reached our days, were erected.

Structures 2nd Winter Palace, Gostiny Dvor and others. All buildings built according to the architect’s projects were processed by flat pilasters with elegant capitals, frame platbands with “ears” and stretched cornices and covered with roofs with fractures. They are characterized by strict geometry and “regularity” of plans, a combination of orders and baroque details, the modesty of decoration and interior - in general, everything that is commonly called the architecture of the Peter's style or early Russian Baroque.

Domenico Andrea was an ideal court architect: he never protruded his talents, fulfilled any instructions and worked on a wide variety of construction sites, and most importantly, he listened to the emperor and did everything in such a way that Peter the Great always understood and accepted all the buildings he designed. The tsar, of course, periodically invited either the clamped leblon or the brilliant mycketti, but they were carried away with the wind of the wind, and Trezini was unshakable, all the same close to the sovereign, and all the same undemanding.

The great architect, who determined the whole appearance of St. Petersburg, died in the year. It is known that he was buried in the cemetery near Sampsonievsky Cathedral, but the grave of Domenico Andrea, like others that found their last refuge of architects, was lost.