Vasily Ivanovich Demuth-Malinovsky (1779 – July 16, 1846) was a Russia

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n sculptor whose works represent the quintessence of the Empire style.

He entered the Imperial Academy of Arts

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 at the age of six and studied under Mikhail Kozlovsky

Mikhail Kozlovsky

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 for fifteen years. Upon the death of his teacher, he won a competition to design his tomb and departed for Rome

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 to study with Canova. Success came to him with two colossal statues for the Kazan Cathedral in St Petersburg.

In the aftermath of the Russian victory over Napoleon, Demuth-Malinovsky executed a number of patriotic pieces, including a tomb and a large statue of Barclay de Tolly in Estonia

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. Later Alexander I

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 assigned to him the task of preparing bas-reliefs symbolizing the Neva and the Volga for the Alexander Column

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 on Palace Square

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Demuth-Malinovsky also designed statuary and decorations for other St Petersburg churches, palaces, and public monuments, especially those designed by Carlo Rossi

Carlo Rossi (architect)

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: the General Staff Building

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, the Bourse

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, the Admiralty

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, the Mining Institute

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, the Egyptian Gate, the Narva Gate, and the Mikhailovsky Palace

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