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b. St Petersburg (Leningrad), 1761;
d. St Petersburg, 1811.
Leading Russian Architect, the classicist of the early 19 century. Son of a minor admiralty official, Zakharov entered the preparatory school of the Academy of Arts in 1767, ultimately graduating from its Architecture School in 1782 with the gold medal. The prize took him to Paris for four [...]