Alexander Bashilov

Alexander Alexandrovich Bashilov (Russian: Александр Александрович Башилов; August 31, 1777 in Hlukhiv – December 31, 1847 in Moscow) was a Russian general officer of Napoleonic Wars period, later engaged in urban planning of Moscow and its suburbs.

Alexander Bashilov, commissioned on graduation from the Page Corps, joined the elite Preobrazhensky regiment in January 1798.

In February 1802 he was stripped of his court titles for "indecent behaviour in a theatre" and transferred to a second-rate infantry regiment.

Bashilov joined the city administration at the time when Moscow was still recovering from the destruction of Fire of 1812.

He is remembered for planting the park around Petrovsky Palace (then a distant north-western suburb) and planning the regular city grid along Petersburg Highway (present-day Leningradsky Prospekt) and north from the Palace (present-day Savyolovsky District).