Charles Cameron

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  • TITLE: Western architecture
    SECTION: Russia
    Two foreign architects played important roles: a Scotsman, Charles Cameron, whose most extensive work was at Tsarskoye Selo in the style invented by Robert Adam and who was responsible for introducing the first correct Greek Doric column and entablature in Russia in the circular Temple of Friendship at Pavlovsk (1780); and an Italian, Giacomo Antonio Domenico Quarenghi, who arrived in Russia in...


  • TITLE: Pushkin (Russia)
    ...Russian Baroque style by Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli. The palace and its park, also laid out by Rastrelli, were considerably embellished under Catherine II (the Great) by the Scottish architect Charles Cameron. Deliberately gutted by the Germans during World War II, the palace has been restored. In the park are the smaller Alexander Palace, built by the Italian Giacomo Quarenghi in...