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Already at the age of nine, the boy was determined at the St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts, where he studied architecture under the leadership of A. at the beginning of the year Kostya creates his first projects of large buildings, and in the “plan for public amusement” of Petersburgers. In the year, the tone ends an academic course with a small gold medal and the title of an artist of the 1st degree and remains at the academy to continue education.

However, in the year there is a change in the leadership of the educational institution, and Konstantin Andreevich has to leave training and go to the service in the Committee of Buildings and Hydraulic work. In the year, the young architect still manages to go abroad, to Italy, where he studies the monuments of ancient architecture. Having stayed abroad for 10 years and having received the title of academician of the Roman Archaeological Academy, Konstantin returns to St.

Petersburg, where he is immediately enrolled in his Majesty's office. His first work in his homeland was the design of the ceremonial halls of the Academy of Arts, where he arranged a gallery to accommodate gypsum casts, a conference room and remade some parts of the building. The turning point in the architect’s career was the project of the construction of the church of St.

Ekaterina, behind the Kalinkin bridge, in the “Russian ancient taste”, which came to Nicholas the First and became one of the milestones in the history of Russian architecture, summing up with classicism and symbolizing the birth of the “Russian-Byzantine style”. In the year, the tone takes part in the competition for the construction of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow.

And here Konstantin Andreevich was waiting for success - in the year the emperor drawn on his project a approving resolution. Designing the temple, the architect tried to emphasize the similarity of his church with powerful Kremlin cathedrals. In the same style, he also created the project of the temple of the newly -minted miracle worker Mitrofan in Voronezh.

Already at the end of the x, tone, a deafening success came to Konstantin: he is constantly busy and is in the prime of his creative forces. In m, Nikolai was the first to assign him the construction of a new palace in the Kremlin. The Great Kremlin Palace, on which other architects worked on the project, turned out at the same time traditional and new: its ceremonial interiors amaze with greatness and luxury, and the palace itself organically fit into the medieval development of the Kremlin.

In addition, Konstantin Andreevich, on the imperial instruction, designed railway stations in St. Petersburg of Moscow, Tsarskoye Selo and Moscow Leningradsky, cathedrals in St. Petersburg, Krasnoyarsk, Tomsk and Yaransk, resumed the bell tower of Ivan the Great. Until the last day, the architect continued to receive signs of recognition of his merits.

Konstantin Andreevich died in St. Petersburg on January 25 of the year, where he was buried in the Volkovsky cemetery.