Ludwig Charlemagne

His father, the sculptor Jean Baptiste Charlemagne-Baudet, came to Russia from Rouen in 1777, at the invitation of Catherine the Great.

In 1797, together with his brothers Iosif, Ivan, and Karl, he entered the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts on a scholarship.

He graduated in 1806 with a gold medal, second degree, then began working as an assistant to the architects Luigi Rusca and Alexander Mikhailov [ru].

[1] From 1828 to 1832, he was involved in a major project: the Institute for Noble Maidens in Poltava; from master plans by Alexander Staubert [ru].

During that time, he also began working on the Kalinka Hospital [ru] (currently an office building), which occupied him until 1833.