Vladimir Osipovich Sherwood was a Russian architect

Architect

An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...

 who worked in Moscow

Moscow

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. He was an Eclectics and Russian Revival

Russian Revival

The Russian Revival style is the generic term for a number of different movements within Russian architecture that arose in second quarter of the 19th century and was an eclectic melding of pre-Peterine Russian architecture and elements of Byzantine architecture.The Russian Revival style arose...

 practitioner, author of the State Historical Museum

State Historical Museum

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 in Moscow. He was the son of Joseph Sherwood, an English engineer hired to build canals in Russia; the father died when Vladimir was five years old. Vladimir Osipovich became one of the most visible architects of the Alexander III

Alexander III of Russia

Alexander Alexandrovich Romanov , historically remembered as Alexander III or Alexander the Peacemaker reigned as Emperor of Russia from until his death on .-Disposition:...

 version of Russian Revival, also noted for his Plevna Chapel

Plevna Chapel

The Plevna Chapel is a public subscription monument to the Russian Grenadiers who died during the Siege of Plevna. It was opened on a square outside the Ilyinka Gate of the Walled City in Moscow on the 10th anniversary of the taking of Pleven , in the presence of Field Marshal Nikolai Nikolayevich....

 and Nikolay Pirogov memorial in Moscow.

He was the father of:

• Vladimir Vladimirovich Sherwood
  Vladimir Vladimirovich Sherwood
  Vladimir Vladimirovich Sherwood , was a Russian architect who worked in Moscow in 1895-1914 in Art Nouveau style and modernized classics variant of Russian neoclassical revival that predated modernist architecture of 1920s.-Biography:...
  
   (Владимир Владимирович Шервуд, May 17, 1867 – June 18, 1930), an Art Nouveau
  Art Nouveau
  Art Nouveau is an international philosophy and style of art, architecture and applied art—especially the decorative arts—that were most popular during 1890–1910. The name "Art Nouveau" is French for "new art"...
  
   and Neoclassical Revival architect;
• Sergei Vladimirovich Sherwood (Сергей Владимирович Шервуд, December 13, 1858 – August 29, 1899), also an architect; and
• Leonid Vladimirovich Sherwood
  Leonid Sherwood
  Leonid Vladimirovich Sherwood was a Russian sculptor. Sherwood was of English descent, his grandfather Joseph Sherwood was an English engineer who emigrated to Russia. His father was the architect Vladimir Osipovich Sherwood and his brother was the architect Vladimir Vladimirovich Sherwood...
  
   (Леонид Владимирович Шервуд, 1871–1954), a sculptor based in Saint Petersburg
  Saint Petersburg
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  , a master of socialist realism
  Socialist realism
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