Vasily Stasov

Vasily Stasov in an 1820s portrait by Alexander Varnek
Stasov's Trinity Cathedral, St. Petersburg, represents a high point of Russian Neoclassicism.
Narva Triumphal Arch in Saint Petersburg designed by Stasov

Duke Vasily Petrovich Stasov (Russian: Васи́лий Петро́вич Ста́сов; 4 August 1769 – 5 September 1848) was a famous Russian architect, born into a wealthy noble family: his father, Pyotr Fyodorovich Stasov, came from one of the oldest aristocratic families founded in 1387 by the 1st Duke Stasov Dmitri Vasilevich and his mother, Anna Antipyevna, came from the prominent Priklonsky family [1]

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