The biography of Bartholomew of Rastrelli

Francesco Bartolomeo Rastreli; Until the XX century, it was customary to indicate the Russified name and patronymic Bartholomew Bartholomeevich [1]; , Paris-, St. Petersburg-the famous Russian architect of Italian origin; Count, cavalier of the Order of St. Anne, academician of architecture, the son of a famous sculptor and architect Bartolomeo Carls Rastrelli -, a Russified Italian.

The most vivid representative of Russian Baroque. Rastrelli combined the elements of European baroque with Russian architectural traditions, first of all from the Naryshkin style, such as the bell tower, roofs, color scheme. In the year, Rastrelli came with his father to St. Petersburg, where his father was invited to Peter I to work on the construction of the imperial palace. From the year, he was trained in Europe, presumably in Italy.

From the year, he was an architect of the empresses Anna Ioannovna and Elizabeth Petrovna. He built the palaces of the Duke of Biron in Rundal - and Mitava - both palaces are located in Latvia. The heyday of the architect began with the construction for the Empress Elizabeth Petrovna the wooden summer palace in St. Petersburg-years; Not preserved. Then, numerous city palaces and suburban estates, such as the Palace of Vorontsov -, the Stroganov palace - years, followed.

From a year, the architect devoted himself to the work on the Great Palace in Peterhof. In the year, a sketch of the St. Andrew's Cathedral in Kyiv was created, in - - the restructuring of the Catherine Palace in Tsarskoye Selo is now the city of Pushkin. His two most famous works are the ensemble of the Smolny Monastery - and the Winter Palace with its famous Jordanian staircase - with the coming to power of Catherine II Rastrelli, was to leave his post, as Catherine II preferred the Baroque style of classicism.

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