Pyotr Yeropkin
Pyotr Mikhailovich Yeropkin (ca. 1698–1740) was a Russian
Admiralty spire should be permitted" and insisted on the primacy of the embankments.[1]
The scion of a noble family, Yeropkin was one of the first professionally trained Russian architects. After 8-years study in Italy he worked in St. Petersburg under
Chancellor Osterman, Prince Tcherkassky, and Volynsky.[2]
After Volynsky's fall from grace he was tried and executed with him.
St. Sampson's Cathedral. The current memorial by Alexander Opekushin was raised in the late 19th century at the behest of historian Mikhail Semevsky. No buildings by Yeropkin survive, but he is still remembered as the first ethnically Russian town-planner and the first translator of Palladio
's books into Russian.
