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Felten Y. M. (1730-1801), architect

FELTEN Yury Matveevich (Georg Friedrich) (1730 -1801, St. Petersburg), architect, professor of the Academy of Fine Arts (from 1775; from 1785 a Council member, in 1789-94 director), State Counsellor (1784)

1779-1780

The Palace wing (later it was named as the Zubov Wing) was constructed by Yu.
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

Architects of Our City, publication series

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Bauer F.V., (1731-1783), engineer

BAUER (Bawr) Fedor Villimovich (Friedrich Wilhelm) (1731-1783, St. Petersburg), military engineer and cartographer, General Quartermaster (1769), Engineer General (1780). Swedish immigrant, from 1769 in Russian service

Bolshaya Konyushennaya Street

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Bridges (entry)

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Bronze Horseman

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Building Office

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Cathedral of the Renewal of the Jerusalem Holy Resurrection Temple

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Catherine Palace (Town of Pushkin)

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Catherine Park (Pushkin town), ensemble

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Cemetery Churches (entry)

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Chesme Church

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Chesme Palace

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China-village (Pushkin)

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Embankments (entry)

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Glinka Capella

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Grilles (entry)

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Hermitage Buildings (entry)

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Kutuzova Embankment

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Landings, Water (entry)

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Lebyazhy Bridges

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Lower Park (Petrodvorets)

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Moika, river

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Nativity of St. John the Baptist Church

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Naval monuments

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Palace Square

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Petergofskaya Road

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Peterhof, palace and park ensemble

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Repin Academic Institute Of Painting, Sculpture And Architecture, St. Petersburg State

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Rusca L.I. (1762-1822), architect

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Smolenskoe Cemeteries

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Smolnaya Embankment

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Smolny Architectural Ensemble

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Sokolov E.T. (1750-1824), architect.

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St. Anne’s Lutheran Church

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St. Catherine’s Armenian Church

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St. Catherine’s Lutheran Church

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St. Catherine’s Swedish Church

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State University, St. Petersburg

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Summer Garden

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The Tower Ruin , a monument

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Vallin de la Mothe J.-B.M. (1729-1800), architect.

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Winter Canal

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Winter Palace

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Zakharov A.D. (1761-1811), architect.

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