Alberto Cavos

Cosroe Dusi, Alberto Cavos, 1849, oil on canvas; Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg[1]

Alberto Katerinovich Cavos[2] (Russian: Альбе́рт Катери́нович Ка́вос, romanizedAlbert Katerinovich Kavos; January 3, 1801 [O.S. December 22, 1800] – June 3 [O.S. May 22] 1863)[2] was a Russian–Italian architect best known for his theatre designs, the builder of the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg (1859–1860) and the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow (1853–1856).

  1. ^ Previously owned by the Pushkin House and then by the Russian Museum, the pendant portraits of Albert and Ksenia Cavos entered the Hermitage in 1941. Long believed to be works by anonymous master, these have been considered and attributed to Dusi in Gudymenko, Yuri Y. (2011). "«Россика» первой половины XIX века из фонда живописи Отдела истории русской культуры". Сообщения Государственного Эрмитажа (in Russian). No. 69. St. Petersburg: State Hermitage Publishers. p. 139, ill. 5, 6. ISBN 978-5-93572-430-6.
  2. ^ a b Jaffé, Daniel (2022). Historical dictionary of Russian music (Second ed.). Lanham Boulder New York London: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 96. ISBN 9781538130087.