Adam Menelaws
Overview page. Subjects: Architecture.
(c. 1749–1831). Scots architect, one of several who settled in Russia at the invitation of Cameron. By 1818 he had taken Cameron's place as the leading court architect. He designed a...
Isaac Ware
Overview page. Subjects: Architecture.
(1704–66) English architect.
Reputedly educated under Lord Burlington’s guidance and trained by Thomas Ripley, Ware gained the first of several posts in 1728 in the Office of...
John Busch
Overview page. Subjects: Lifestyle, Home, and Garden.
(1730–95), German nurseryman (originally Johann Busch) from Hanover who came to England in the 1740s. By 1756 he was living in Hackney (London) where he rented land to start a small...
Pavlovsk
Overview page. Subjects: Lifestyle, Home, and Garden.
Near St Petersburg, Russia, is the site of Paul I's palace and extensive landscape park (600 hectares/1,482 acres) on the banks of the Slavyanka, 25 km/16 miles from St Petersburg ...
Russia
Overview page. Subjects: Music.
1. Introduction
It is impossible to study the history of Russian music up to the decline of Communism in 1991 without considering the obstacles and barriers that have constantly...
Tsarskoe Selo (Pushkin)
Overview page. Subjects: Lifestyle, Home, and Garden.
Russia, lying 22 km/14 miles from St Petersburg, has two palaces: the baroque Yekaterinsky (‘Catherine's’ after Catherine I, reigned 1725–27), given its final form by Rastrelli for the...
Vasily Ivanovich Neyelov
Overview page. Subjects: Lifestyle, Home, and Garden.
(1722–82), Russian architect who worked for Catherine the Great in the park at Tsarskoe Selo (Pushkin) with John Busch and Charles Cameron.
In 1771 he was sent to England by ...
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Vincenzo Brenna
Overview page. Subjects: Architecture.
(1745–c.1820). Florence-born architect who settled in Rome by 1767 and, with Franciszek Smuglewicz (1745–1807), produced drawings of Roman wall-paintings and other remains, published as Ves...
