Andrei Stackenschneider

Portrait of Stackenschneider by Nikolai Terebenev, 1854

Andrei Ivanovich Stakenschneider (also spelled Stuckenschneider; ‹See Tfd›Russian: Андрей Иванович Штакеншнейдер, romanizedAndrey Ivanovich Shtakenshneyder; 6 March [O.S. 22 February] 1802 – 20 August [O.S. 8 August] 1865) was a Russian architect. His eclectic approach and competence in period styles are manifest in ten palaces built to his design in St. Petersburg. He is often credited with turning Russian architecture from Neoclassicism to Romanticism.