Andrey (Andrei) Nikiforovich Voronikhin was a Russian architect and painter. As a representative of classicism he was also one of the founders of the monumental Russian Empire style. Born a serf of the Stroganov family, he is best known for his work on Kazan Cathedral in Saint Petersburg.
Portrait of Andrey Voronikhin. Engraving by V. A. Bobrov from the beginning of the 19th century.
A 1960 U.S.S.R. stamp commemorating the bicentennial of Voronikhin's birth.
The Empire style is an early-nineteenth-century design movement in architecture, furniture, other decorative arts, and the visual arts, representing the second phase of Neoclassicism. It flourished between 1800 and 1815 during the Consulate and the First French Empire periods, although its life span lasted until the late-1820s. From France it spread into much of Europe and the United States.
The Arc de Triomphe of the Place de l'Étoile, one of the most famous examples of Empire architecture, commissioned in 1806 after the victory at Austerlitz by Emperor Napoleon I
Detail of Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel from Paris, with a pair of winged Victories
A pair of sphinxes with an amphora between them, surrounded by rinceaux and palmettes, on a washstand (athénienne or lavabo)
The top of an Egyptian Revival pylon-shaped coin cabinet, with a cornice and a winged sun
