Shchedrin F.F. (1751-1825), sculptor

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SHCHEDRIN Feodosy Fedorovich (1751, St. Petersburg - 1825), sculptor, brother of S. F. Shchedrin and father of painter Silvester Shchedrin (1791-1830) and architect A. F. Shchedrin. He was N. F. Gillet's student in the Academy of Arts in 1764-73 and a retainer in Florence and Rome in 1773-75 and Paris in 1775-85. In 1794 he became both a teacher and a member of the Academy of Arts and its rector in 1818. He was the artist of monumental decorative plastics of the classical style. The author of the allegoric statues of Perseus, Neva, destroyed by German troops and recreated by V. V. Ellonen in 1950, and Sirens made in 1800-05 - all three were made for the Grand Cascade at Peterhof; The Carrying of the Cross to Calvary, the monumental relief made in 1807 for the facade of Kazan Cathedral; and the figures on the colonnade of the Main Admiralty's central tower and attic, made in 1812-13. He created interior sculptures such as Sleeping Endymion made of bronze in 1779 and the bust of A. N. Nartov made of marble in 1811, both exhibited at the Russian Museum. He was also a medallist. He was buried at Smolenskoe Orthodox Cemetery, his remains moved to the Necropolis of the 18th Century in 1939.

Reference: Каганович А. Л. Феодосий Федорович Щедрин, 1751-1825. М., 1953; Петинова Е. Ф. Федос Щедрин, 1751-1825. Л., 1977.

O. L. Leikind, D. Y. Severyukhin. Ellonen Viktor Wilhelmovich
Gillet Nicolas-Francois
Nartov Andrey Andreevich
Shchedrin Apollon Feodosievich
Shchedrin Feodosy Fedorovich
Shchedrin Semen Fedorovich
Shchedrin Silvester Fedosievich
Каганович А. Л. Феодосий Федорович Щедрин, 1751-1825. М., 1953
Петинова Е. Ф. Федос Щедрин, 1751-1825. Л., 1977 Academy of Arts
Academy of Arts
Grand Cascade (Peterhof)
Kazan Cathedral
Admiralty
Russian Museum, State
Necropolis of the18th Century