Vasily Stasov

One of his early works, the Gruzino estate near Novgorod, was built for Count Alexey Arakcheyev in the 1810s and was completely destroyed during World War II.

He worked much to embellish Tsarskoe Selo, where he designed the famous Pushkin Lyceum, the fanciful Chinese Village and also the Office of the Police Chief, which is an adaption of the project developed by the architect V. I. Geste.

Stasov's first important commissions in the capital were the Transfiguration and the Trinity cathedrals for the regiments of the Russian Imperial Guard.

The latter, a ponderous edifice with Byzantine and Russian features, was erected on the spot of the first church of Kievan Rus' and contained the relics of Saint Vladimir until its destruction by Bolsheviks in the 1930s.

[2][3] Among his children were: His granddaughter was Elena Stasova (1873-1966), a prominent Russian-Soviet communist revolutionary, working alongside Vladimir Lenin.