What key details about nikolay lvov can be extracted from the following bio? Bio: nikolay aleksandrovich lvov -lrb- may 4 , 1753 -- december 21 , 1803 -rrb- was a russian artist of the age of enlightenment . lvov , an amateur of rurikid lineage , was a polymath who contributed to geology , history , graphic arts and poetry , but is known primarily as an architect and ethnographer , compiler of the first significant collection of russian folk songs -lrb- the lvov-prach collection -rrb- . lvov 's architecture represented the second , '' strict '' generation of neoclassicism stylistically close to giacomo quarenghi . lvov worked in saint petersburg but his best works survived in the countryside , especially his native tver governorate . he redesigned the external appearance of peter and paul fortress and created an unprecedented trinity church combining a roman rotunda with one-of-a-kind pyramidal bell tower . he adapted rammed earth technology to the environment of northern russia and used it in his extant priory palace in gatchina ; lvov 's construction school , established in 1797 , trained over 800 craftsmen . he managed geological surveys and published a treatise on the coals from donets basin and moscow basin . he experimented with coal pyrolysis , proposed new uses for coal tar and sulphur , and wrote a reference book on heating and ventilation . lvov designed the badges of the order of st. vladimir and the order of st. anna , translated works by anacreon , palladio , petrarch , sappho and the saga of king harald into russian language , wrote libretto for opera and vaudeville , researched russian chronicles and published one of the first versions of the bylina of dobrynya nikitich . in 1783 he became one of the first 36 members of the russian academy . in 1931 vladislav khodasevich called lvov '' an intelligent and subtle connoisseur of everything ... who was not destined to do anything remarkable . '' later researchers appreciated lvov 's contribution : richard taruskin considered lvov 's collection of folk songs '' the greatest and most culturally significant of russian folk...
- death place is moscow- significant buildings is priory palace , gatchina trinity church , saint petersburg- caption is portrait by dmitry levitzky , 1780s- death date is december 21 , 1803- significant projects is redesign of peter and paul fortress- birth date is may 4 , 1753- name is nikolay lvov- nationality is russian empire- image is levickij lvov 1789.jpg- birth place is cherenchitsy , near torzhok