STAKENSCHNEIDER Andrei Ivanovich
(1802-1865)

An architect and the painter. Studied in the Academy of Arts (1815-1821), was an academician since 1834 and the honourable free member of the Academy of Arts. Was the lecturer of the Academy of Arts ( since 1844- professor). Since 1825 was the painter-architect in the Committee on St.Isaac's Cathedral construction. Since 1833 became the court architect. He is the author of multiple palaces with the different architectural styles combination (mainly renaissance and baroque): the Mariinsky Palace, the Palace of Beloselsky-Belozersky, Nikolayevsky Palace and the New-Mikhailovsky Palace. He designed the interior decoration of the very high quality in Dolgorukov's Dacha (week-end cottage, late 1830-s - start 1840-s) and in the buildings of the Small and the Old Hermitage (1850-s - start 1860-s). He lived in the house of the Lutheran Church of the Saint Peter at Nevsky avenue, since 1854 - in the own house. The art salon of Stakenschneider, his wife and daughter was one of the centers of cultural life in St.-Petersburg of the second half of 1850-60-s (among its visitors were artists, sculptors and architects). Buried in Troitsko-Sergiyeva Pustyn.