Antonio Adamini
Antonio Adamini (December 25, 1792 in Bigogno, Ticino - June 16, 1846, St. Petersburg) was a Swiss-born Russian architect and engineer.
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Of his training little is known, but he was appointed in the late spring of 1816 (some say 1818) with his cousin Domenico Adamini to the court of the Russian Tsar.[1] After furthered his career in the administration and he was the architect of the State Bank in the 1830s. Adamini's significant structural performance was to construct the 25-meter-high monument to Tsar Alexander, a monolithic granite pillar, the Alexander Column in 1832 and 1834, before the Winter Palace with Auguste de Montferrand. The logistical preparation for this project took four years. Adamini also designed a monument to the Battle of Borodino on the road to Smolensk.[2]
Literature
- Isabelle Rucki und Dorothee Huber (Hg): Architektenlexikon der Schweiz - 19./20. Jahrhundert Basel: Birkhäuser 1998. ISBN 3-7643-5261-2
References
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- Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia (2005). Newsletter. p. 64. Retrieved 13 December 2011.
- Italy. Centro di documentazione (1955). Italy today. Istituto poligrafico dello Stato. p. 178. Retrieved 13 December 2011.