Pyotr Yeropkin

It was Yeropkin who designed the famous Trident of the Nevsky, Voznesensky, and Gorokhovaya thoroughfares as the city's structural center.

[1] He demanded that "no obstacle to the view of the Admiralty spire should be permitted" and insisted on the primacy of the embankments.

He was a relative of Artemy Volynsky, one of Empress Anne's closest advisors, and built the notorious ice palace on her request.

Empress Elizabeth had a monument erected to Yeropkin's memory near his tomb in St. Sampson's Cathedral.

The current memorial by Alexander Opekushin was raised in the late 19th century at the behest of historian Mikhail Semevsky.