Andrey Kvasov
Hay Square
in St Petersburg, attributed to Kvasov and demolished by Soviet authorities in the 1930s.Andrey Vasilievich Kvasov (Russian: Андрей Васильевич Квасов, ca. 1720 – ca. 1770) was a notable Baroque architect who worked in Russia including the territory of Ukraine. Very little is known about his life, and its dates are still uncertain. Only a handful of his buildings, though much altered, still stand.
In 1741, Kvasov helped
Aleksey Bestuzhev
are also attributed to Kvasov.
Koselets. In 1770, he was made Principal Architect of Little Russia. The cathedral in Kozelets is his major surviving work in the Ukrainian Baroque
idiom.
Kvasov's younger brother
St Petersburg
.
References
Bibliography
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- Isachenko, Valeriy (2010). Зодчие Санкт-Петербурга XVIII – XX веков [Architects of St Petersburg in the Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries] (in Russian). Moscow: Tsentrpoligraph. ISBN 978-5-227-02220-2.