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Casilii Petrovich Stasov, 1769-1849,
designed or built many buildings in Saint Petersburg, but none was of
particular importance, (except that he participated in completion of St Isaac's
cathedral, see Montferrand). Empress Maria
Fedorovna, the widow of Paul I, commissioned him to build the Trinity Cathedral
in Saint Petersburg, 1827-1832, on the site where Peter the Great had married
Catherine in a small wooden chapel in 1707. The white cathedral has five
cupolas painted blue with gold stars. In 1829 Stasov rebuilt the Cathedral of
the Transfiguration, which was destroyed by fire four years before. (See
Preobrazhenski regiment cathedral in the section on
peteburg. ) Besides church
architecture, Stasov was interested in triumphal arches, and he built two in
Saint Petersburg. The first is the Arch of Narva, designed in the Roman style
by Guarenghi and built in 1834; and the so-called Moscow Triumphal Arch, built
in 1833-1838 on the outskirts of Saint Petersburg on the road to Moscow. This
one was designed and built by Stasov. Twelve Doric orders carry the
entablature, decorated with twelve angels in bas-relief. The arch commemorated
the three campaigns of Nicholas I: in Persia, Poland and Turkey.
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