Sokolov P.P., (1764-1835), sculptor

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SOKOLOV Pavel Petrovich (1764, St. Petersburg - 1835, at the same place), sculptor. Studied at the Academy of Arts (1770-85) under F.G. Gordeev, received a retainer to study in France (1786-89), and became a member (1813). Worked as a master of carved wood at the Main Admiralty. Created monumental decorative and mounted plastics in a Classical style: griffon figures for the Bank Bridge, lions for the Lion Bridge, sphinxes for the Egyptian Bridge (all from cast iron, 1825-26), the fountain sculpture Dairy-Woman with a Broken Jar (bronze, 1810) in the Catherine Park of Tsarskoe Selo, and Tsarskoselskaya statue of chant with Alexander Pushkin to verse (1830). He created busts for actor I.A. Dmitrievsky (gypsum, 1813), metropolitan S. Bogusz-Siestrzencewicz (marble, 1823), both of which are in the State Russian Museum. He was originally buried at Smolenskoe Cemetery, and later his ashes were transported to the Necropolis of Artists.

O. L. Leikind, D.Y. Severyukhin. Gordeev Fedor Gordeevich
Pushkin Alexander Sergeevich
Sokolov Pavel Petrovich
Academy of Arts
Academy of Arts
Admiralty
Admiralty
Bankovsky Bridge
Egyptian Bridge
Lviny Bridge
Russian Museum, State
Necropolis of Artists