Fyodor Kamensky

From 1873 on he worked in the U.S. Kamensky was born in Lesnoye [ru], a suburb of Saint Petersburg, to the family of an administrator of the Imperial Forestry Institute in the city.

In 1852-1860 he studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts under Nikolai Pimenov, Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg and Feodor Bruni.

In Academy he received gold medals for bas-reliefs Senate asked Cincinnatus to stay in Rome and Regulus returns to Carthage.

After a short stay in Kansas, he moved to Florida in 1883 to the city of Clearwater, where he bought an eight-acre plot of land and built it house on the shore of the Gulf of Mexico.

He prepared "huge concrete sculptures for the pavilion" as well as selected 130 paintings and statues from Russia to be presented on the exhibition.