He was the author of many classical buildings and architectural ensembles in Saint Petersburg and its surroundings.
He was born on 2 October 1772 in Cassina (Agno), near Lugano in Switzerland’s Italian-speaking Ticino canton.
[2] He worked on numerous palaces and private residences in Saint Petersburg, alongside his countrymen Giovanni Battista Belli-Bernasconi and Giovanni Battista Lucchini of Montagnola, and Gerolamo Rusca of Agno.
[1] Father of a son Viktor, born in Russia, who became a major in the Tsarist army and married Antonina Alexeyvna Bibikova.
), a Russian and Soviet military engineer and writer, and Viktor Viktorovich Kvadri (1861-1908), an important Russian military author and archaeologist.