Iosif Ivanovich Charlemagne

His official graduation came in 1803 but, at his request, he remained at the academy for another year to "gain great success not as a student, but as an artist".

From 1821 to 1822, at the behest of Viktor Kochubey, the Minister of the Interior, he developed a series of projects for buildings that would employ medicinal waters and balneotherapy.

Beginning in 1826, his plans were used to build the St. Nicholas Baths in Pyatigorsk; under the direction of the Swiss architect Giuseppe Marco Bernardazzi [ru].

Together with Daniil Babkin (1771-1858), the Imperial Kammer Fourier [ru] (a type of court supervisor), he went there to prepare the premises.

[1] He also served as an architect at the State Audit Office, and was a member of the "Department of Projects and Estimates" at the Main Directorate of Railways.