Jean-Baptiste Michel Vallin de la Mothe was a French architect whose major career was spent in St. Petersburg, where he became court architect to Catherine II. His students were Ivan Starov and Vasily
Arch of New Holland Island, Saint-Petersburg
Catholic Church of St. Catherine, Saint-Petersburg
Hôtel de Bardines, Angoulême
Imperial Academy of Arts, Saint-Petersburg
Neoclassical architecture in Russia developed in the second half of the 18th century, especially after Catherine the Great succeeded to the throne on June 28, 1762, becoming Empress of Russia. Neoclas
Portrait of Catherine II by Dmitry Levitsky, early 1780s
Antonio Rinaldi, the pavilion in Oranienbaum
Moscow Orphanage. By Fyodor Alekseyev, early 19th century
Inauguration of Imperial Academy of Arts by Valery Jacobi, 1889, Louvre