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\n \n LVOV Nikolay Alexandrovich (1751-1803), architect, poet, engraver, scientist, engineer, privy counsellor, member of the Russian Academy (1783), honorary member of the Academy of Arts (1786). Received a home education. From 1769 he served in the Izmailovsky Life Guards Regiment, in 1773-81 on the Foreign Affairs Board, in 1782-97 on the Central Postal Administration. He designed the Neva Gates of the Peter and Paul Fortress (1784-87) and the Central Post Office (1782-89), in which he lived in a state apartment. He constructed a Palladian style villa for P.A. Soymonov on the Neva bank (not preserved), and reconstructed the main building at 118 Fontanka River Embankment for his friend G.R. Derzhavin. His unfinished projects include building for His Imperial Majesty's Own Chancellery and Kazan Cathedral. He designed the St. Catherine’s Church in Murino (1786-90) and the Holy Trinity Church in Alexandrovskoe Village, situated in suburbs of St. Petersburg (see \"Easter Cake\"). He also wrote numerous verses, poems, fables, and plays in a sentimental and pre-romantic style, as well as some friendly epistles. He transcribed a Collection of Russian Folk Songs (vol. 1-2, 1790), and wrote a libretto for Coachmen at Shore (1787). He published two Old Russian chronicles and collected materials for a Dictionary of Artists and Arts. He also studied the history of the Maltese Order. He translated into Russian several past poets, and works by F. Petrarca and A. Palladio. A literary-art circle formed around Lvov and Derzhavin (see Lvov-Derzhavin Circle). From 1798 Lvov became an architect of Agricultural School in Gatchina, developing the technique of beaten-cob construction (he designed the unique Prioratsky Palace), as well as new ways of heating and ventilating buildings.

References: Будылина М. В., Брайцева О. И., Харламова А. М. Архитектор Н. А. Львов. М., 1961; Глинка Н. И. Николай Львов // Зодчие Санкт-Петербурга, XVIII век. СПб., 1997. С. 828-878.

V. V. Antonov.\n
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\n \n \n Derzhavin Gavriil Romanovich\n
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