Stepan Kovnir
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Stepan Demianovych Kovnir was a Ukrainian builder and master mason in Kyiv. His nearly sixty years of labor brought aesthetic unity to the ancient, sprawling center of Ukrainian culture and education,
50°26′08″N 30°33′28″E / 50.4356°N 30.5577°E / 50.4356; 30.5577 Kovnir's Building, Pechersk. (1721–73). Note the stucco work in the gables.
Pediments, Assumption Cathedral, Pechersk (1729). Kovnir's work, shown here, was destroyed by the German military during World War II and not faithfully reproduced.
50°26′05″N 30°33′23″E / 50.4347°N 30.5563°E / 50.4347; 30.5563 Great Bell Tower, Pechersk. (1731–45). Note the capitals of the Corinthian columns. They are cast ceramic and each is unique.
50°27′32″N 30°31′05″E / 50.4588°N 30.5180°E / 50.4588; 30.5180 St. Andrews Church, Kyiv (1747-1754).
Ivan Grigorovich-Barsky
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Ivan Grigorovich-Barsky or Ivan Hryhorovych-Barskyi was a Ukrainian-born Imperial Russian architect who worked in the Late Cossack Baroque style. He was a graduate of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, and desi
The Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God (1752–1764), in collaboration with Andrey Kvasov in Kozelets.
