Nartov A.K. (1693 -1756), mechanic

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NARTOV Andrey Konstantinovich (1693-1756, St. Petersburg), mechanic. Worked at the Moscow Mint for the artillery department. In 1712, he settled in St. Petersburg, becoming Tsar Peter the Great's private lathe operator. Upon the Tsar's death in 1725, Nartov, as well as his turnery, came under the supervision of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. He invented and built a number of original lathes, also coming up with new cannon foundries, machines for bore drilling, and some original ignition devices. The lathes and machines that Nartov invented are kept at the State Hermitage, the Military and Historical Museum of Artillery, the Sappers and Signal Troops, and the Summer Palace of Peter the Great; his manuscript treatise, entitled Theatrum Machinorum, is stored at the National Russian Library. He was buried by the Holy Annunciation Church on Vasilievsky Island, and reburied at the Necropolis of the 18th Century in the 1930s.

References: Данилевский В. В. Нартов и "Ясное зрелище машин". М.; Л., 1958; Гизе М. Э. Нартов в Петербурге. Л., 1988.

V. V. Cheparukhin. Nartov Andrey Konstantinovich
Peter I, Emperor
Данилевский В. В. Нартов и "Ясное зрелище машин". М.; Л., 1958
Гизе М. Э. Нартов в Петербурге. Л., 1988 Russian Academy of Sciences
Hermitage
Military Historical Museum of the Artillery, Engineering and Signal Corps
Holy Annunciation Church (Eighth Line of Vasilievsky Island)
Necropolis of the18th Century