Giacomo Quarenghi
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Giacomo Quarenghi was an Italian architect who was the foremost and most prolific practitioner of neoclassical architecture in Imperial Russia, particularly in Saint Petersburg. He brought into vogue
1811 portrait by Giuseppe Poli
Quarenghi's Hermitage Theatre in St Petersburg, original drawing in the National Museum in Warsaw.
Caricature of Giacomo Quarenghi wearing the Order of the Knights of Malta, by his friend Aleksander Orłowski.
Quarenghi's best known vedute meticulously represent mediaeval monuments of Moscow and its environs.
Catherine Palace (Moscow)
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The Catherine Palace is a Neoclassical residence of Catherine II of Russia on the bank of the Yauza River in Lefortovo, Moscow. It should not be confused with the much more famous Catherine Palace in
The Catherine Palace in Moscow
Moscow's longest colonnade consists of 16 dark columns set in a loggia
Lefortovo Park in 1892
An 18th-century grotto