Kvasov Al. V., architect

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KVASOV Alexey Vasilievich (early 1730s, St. Petersburg - 1772), architect, town-planner, master of the early Neoclassical style. From 1747, he studied under his elder brother, the architect Andrey V. Kvasov. The main architect for the Commission for Stone Constructions of St. Petersburg and Moscow from 1763, he was engaged in planning and development of the city centre from the Main Admiralty to the Moika River, decided on the bow-shape of Palace Square, designed the system of bridge-head squares and granite bridges across the Fontanka River, the author of the so-called model standard houses for St. Petersburg and the provinces. Apartment houses 8, 10, 14 and 16 Nevsky Prospect and 17 Bolshaya Morskaya Street were constructed to his designs (all of them were partly or totally reconstructed). He lived at 3 Bolshaya Morskaya Street (the building has not been preserved).

References: Барышникова Е. Ю. Алексей Квасов // Зодчие Санкт-Петербурга, XVIII век. СПб., 1997. С. 609-634.

V. G. Isachenko. Kvasov Alexey Vasilievich
Kvasov Andrey Vasilievich
Bolshaya Morskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 3
Bolshaya Morskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 17
Dvortsovaya Square/Saint Petersburg, city
Nevsky prospect/Saint Petersburg, city, house 16
Nevsky prospect/Saint Petersburg, city, house 10
Nevsky prospect/Saint Petersburg, city, house 8
Nevsky prospect/Saint Petersburg, city, house 14
Барышникова Е. Ю. Алексей Квасов // Зодчие Санкт-Петербурга, XVIII век. СПб., 1997 Commission for St. Petersburg and Moscow Stone Construction