Gottfried Johann Schädel

Johann Gottfried Schädel (German: Johann Gottfried Schädel, Russian: Иван Иванович Шедель) was a German Baroque architect who worked in Russia and Ukraine.

Schädel was born in 1680 in Wandesbek, Duchy of Holstein, Holy Roman Empire (now part of Hamburg).

In 1713, Prince Alexander Menshikov paid him 400 Reichsthaler (384 rubles) to move to Saint Petersburg with his family.

After Menshikov's fall from grace, Schädel settled in Moscow where he worked in tandem with the Italian artist Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli.

In 1995, the Ukrainian film director Valentyn Sokolovsky created a documentary about Schädel for the National Television Company of Ukraine.