Gordeev F.G., (1744-1810), sculptor

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Gordeev Fedor Gordeevich (1744, Tsarskoe Selo - 1810, St. Petersburg), sculptor. Studied at the Academy of Arts (1759-67) under N.F. Gillet, and received a retainer from the Academy of Arts to study in Paris (1767 - 1769) and in Rome (1769 - 1772). He became a member of the academy in 1776, a professor in 1782, and director of the Sculpture Department of the Academy of Arts in 1802. He was a master of monumental-decorative plastics, with Baroque highlights appearing in his early creative period (Prometheus, bronze, 1769, the State Russian Museum). Later he leaned towards a more strict and balanced plastic solutions characteristic of Classicism. He made reliefs for the building of the Academy of Arts (1774), the Old Hermitage (1786), and Kazan Cathedral (1804-07). He sculpted A.M. Golitsyn's gravestone (marble, 1788, Blagoveschenskaya Burial Vault of Alexander Nevsky Lavra). From 1774 he directed all sculpture works in St. Petersburg and environs, and supervised the casting of the Bronze Horseman. Between the 1780s and 1790s he lived in his own house at 12 Third Line of Vasilievsky Island. He was buried at Smolenskoe Orthodox Cemetery (grave not preserved).

Reference: Рогачевский В. М. Федор Гордеевич Гордеев. Л.; М., 1960.

O. L. Leikind, D.Y. Severyukhin. Gillet Nicolas-Francois
Golitsyn Alexander Mikhailovich, Duke
Gordeev Fedor Gordeevich
3d Line of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 12
Рогачевский В. М. Федор Гордеевич Гордеев. Л.; М., 1960 Academy of Arts
Academy of Arts
Kazan Cathedral
Alexander Nevsky Lavra
Bronze Horseman