page_title: Savva Chevakinsky
hierarchical_section_title: Savva Chevakinsky
caption_attribution_description: English: Italianskaya Street in Saint Petersburg. Русский: Итальянская улица в Санкт-Петербурге.
context_page_description: Savva Ivanovich Chevakinsky was a Russian architect of the Baroque school. He worked in St. Petersburg and Tsarskoe Selo.
  Chevakinsky was born into a noble family in the village of Veshki in the Novotorzhsk district of Tver province. In 1729 he entered the Naval Academy in St. Petersburg, from whence he was assigned to the Izmaylovsky Life Guards Regiment in 1734. At the request of the Admiralty board he was discharged for unauthorized absence from the Academy and apprenticed to the architectural company of Ivan Korobov, under whose direction he worked for seven years.
  In 1739 Chevakinsky began his independent career. From 1741 to 1767 he was chief architect for the Admiralty Board. From 1745 to 1760 he was an architect at Tsarskoe Selo, supervising the reconstruction of the palace and surrounding park. Here Chevakinsky erected two buildings connected by galleries to the central part of the palace, erected the "Monbizhu" pavilion, and participated in the creation of the "Hermitage" pavilion".
  Chevakinsky's largest building in St. Petersburg was the St. Nicholas Naval Cathedral with a separate tiered bell tower.
context_section_description: Savva Ivanovich Chevakinsky (Russian: Савва Иванович Чевакинский) (1709 – aft. 1774) was a Russian architect of the Baroque school. He worked in St. Petersburg and Tsarskoe Selo.
  Chevakinsky was born into a noble family in the village of Veshki in the Novotorzhsk district of Tver province. In 1729 he entered the Naval Academy in St. Petersburg, from whence he was assigned to the Izmaylovsky Life Guards Regiment in 1734. At the request of the Admiralty board he was discharged for unauthorized absence from the Academy and apprenticed to the architectural company of Ivan Korobov, under whose direction he worked for seven years.
  In 1739 Chevakinsky began his independent career. From 1741 to 1767 he was chief architect for the Admiralty Board. From 1745 to 1760 he was an architect at Tsarskoe Selo, supervising the reconstruction of the palace and surrounding park. Here Chevakinsky erected two buildings (a church and a hall) connected by galleries to the central part of the palace, erected the "Monbizhu" pavilion (which housed palace officials), and participated in the creation of the "Hermitage" pavilion".
  Chevakinsky's largest building in St. Petersburg was the St. Nicholas Naval Cathedral (1753–1762) with a separate tiered bell tower (1756–1758). He also rebuilt the Kunstkamera, the museum of anthropology and ethnography established by Peter the Great.
  Chevakinsky also designed large private homes. For the Sheremetev family, he built the Fountain House (1750–1755) on the Fontanka Embankment, which building now houses the Anna Akhmatova Literary and Memorial Museum. For the Shuvalov family, he built a mansion at the corner of Malaya Sadovaya Street and Italyanskaya Street (1749–1756, rebuilt in the 19th century), which building later housed the Imperial Ministry of Justice (1802 to 1917) and is today home to the Museum of Hygiene.
  Chevakinsky also constructed the Cavalry Houses, a project commissioned by Empress Elizabeth centered on building houses that differentiated Pushkin, Saint Petersburg from the area surrounding the palace. Construction took place between 1752-1753.
  From 1755 to 1758 Chevakinsky was an architect for the Imperial Academy of Sciences. During those years he taught Vasili Bazhenov and Ivan Starov.
  According to some sources, Chevakinsky died between 1774 and 1780; according to other sources, he died in 1783.
caption: Shuvalov Palace
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