Osip Startsev

Osip Dmitrievich Startsev (Осип Дмитриевич Старцев) was a Russian architect who mastered both Muscovite Baroque and Ukrainian Baroque idioms during the early part of Peter the Great's reign.

His father Dmitry Startsev was the architect responsible for the completion of the Arkhangelsk Gostiny Dvor in the 1680s.

[1] As a young man, Ossip took part in the rebuilding campaigns in the Moscow Kremlin and redesigned several prikazy offices.

His major buildings include the civic buildings in Moscow (notably the Krutitsy Teremok and the Simonov Monastery refectory) and the archaic-looking Baroque cathedrals in Kiev (the katholikons of St. Nicholas and Epiphany Monasteries).

[2] In the early 18th century Peter the Great sent him to design the fortress towns of Azov and Taganrog.