Domenico Quadri (Domeniko/Dementiy Ivanovich Kvadri; Russian: Доменико/Дементий Иванович Квадри; 1772 – 1832)^[1] was a Russian architect born in Switzerland. He was the author of many classical buildings and architectural ensembles in Saint Petersburg and its surroundings.

Biography

He was born on 2 October 1772 in Cassina (Agno), near Lugano in Switzerland’s Italian-speaking Ticino canton.^[2] He worked on numerous palaces and private residences in Saint Petersburg, alongside his countrymen Giovanni Battista Belli-Bernasconi and Giovanni Battista Lucchini of Montagnola, and Gerolamo Rusca of Agno. He lived in Gatchina, where he was also responsible for many buildings.^[1]

Father of a son Viktor, born in Russia, who became a major in the Tsarist army and married Antonina Alexeyvna Bibikova.^[3] He was the grandfather of Vladimir Viktorovich Kvadri (1859-?), a Russian and Soviet military engineer and writer, and Viktor Viktorovich Kvadri (1861-1908), an important Russian military author and archaeologist.^[4]

He returned from Russia in 1827 and died on 12 January 1833 in Milan.^[2]

Works

• Sheremetyev Palace
• Razumovsky Palace
• Residences on Nevsky Prospekt^[5]
• Shcherbatov Mansion (now the Kirovets Centre of Culture and Leisure).^[6]
• Church of Saint Nicholas (Lutheran) in Gatchina.

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