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	Auguste de Montferrand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Auguste de Montferrand (born January 23, 1786 - died on June 28, 1858) was a French architect.
		Henri Louis Auguste Ricard de Montferrand was born at, Cher, France.
		Auguste de Montferrand died in St. Petersburg in 1858, the year St. Isaac's Cathedral was completed.
	kernersville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Auguste_de_Montferrand (299 words)

	Auguste de Montferrand
		Auguste de Montferrand (January 23, 1786 - 1858) was a French architect.
		Henri Louis Auguste Ricard de Montferrand was born at Chaillot, Cher, France.
		Auguste de Montferrand studied architecture under Charles Percier.
	ukpedia.com /a/auguste-de-montferrand.html (214 words)

	St. Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Auguste Montferrand was then a young architect who emigrated from Napoleonic France in 1807, just two years before the fateful competition, and who later became one of the official architects of the Russian court.
		Henri Louis Auguste Ricard de Montferrand was born on January 23, 1786 at Chaillot.
		Perhaps in a feat of anger, the wife of Auguste de Montferrand left Russia for France and took the embalmed body of her husband with her.
	www.photofora.com /eugene/centralsquares/isaacs/stisaacs.htm (2110 words)

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		The chief creation of Auguste de Montferrand, the cathedral completed the age of Russian Classicism and became the dominant feature of the central squares of St Petersburg and one of its symbols.
		Montferrand's successful version was under construction within forty years, from 1818 to 1858, many intervals and alterations in the project.
		A decree "on the construction of a stone church at the Naval Regiment Yard" was signed by Empress Elizabeth in 1752 and the ceremony of the cathedral's consecration took place in 1762 in the presence of Empress Catherine the Great.
	www.investreal-uk.com /_eng/russia/piter/isaacs_cathedral (976 words)

	1786 \| Topic Definition \| Find the Meaning and Define the Answer of 1786 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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		Hortense de Beauharnais April 10, 1783 - October 5, 1837, was the Queen of Kingdom of Holland Holland and mother of the Emperor Napoleon III of France.
		Hortense was born in Paris, France, to Josephine de Beauharnais Josephine Tascher de la Pagerie and Alexandre, Vicomte de Beauharnais.
		Although three sons were born to the marriage one of them the future Napoleon III of France Napoleon III, it was an unhappy one the identity of at least one of the children s fathers is open to debate, and they separated in 1810.
	www.uk.knowledge-info.org /1783-UK-8626886-go (991 words)

	The State Hermitage Museum: Hermitage History
		In April 1833, Emperor Nicholas I commissioned Auguste Montferrand to restore the Great Suite of rooms in the Winter Palace.
		Montferrand, who had won the competition to design St Isaac's Cathedral, designed two rooms, the Fieldmarshals' Hall and the Memorial Room of Peter the Great.
		One of the principal features of the Fieldmarshals' Hall was a group of six full-length portraits of Russian generals who had been awarded the rank of fieldmarshal.
	www.hermitagemuseum.org /html_En/05/hm5_1_17.html (263 words)

	Pravda.RU 170th anniversary of St. Petersburg's Alexander Column
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		August 16th marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of famous orientalist Yuri Roerich.
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	newsfromrussia.com /culture/2002/08/30/35636.html (2128 words)

	Auguste de Montferrand
		In 1816 he moved to Russia and settled in St. Petersburg.
		Montferrand, Auguste de Montferrand, Auguste de Montferrand, Auguste de
		When we had gone some distance we saw the lovers, who had come out, our furs we entered the house.
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	Pravda.RU:170th anniversary of St. Petersburg's Alexander Column (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		On August 30th, 1832, St. Petersburg witnessed the mounting of the famous Alexander Column in Palace Square, in front of the Winter Palace.
		One of the legends of St. Petersburg says that in the early years of the column's history, the inhabitants of the city feared it might collapse, and in order to dissuade them, the author of the column -- the famous Auguste de Montferrand -- used to take a walk around the monument every day.
		The figure of an angel, one of the symbols of Russia's Northern Capital, crowned the column exactly two years later, on August 30th, 1834, the day of the inauguration of the column.
	newsfromrussia.com /culture/2002/08/30/35636_.html (306 words)

	St. Isaac's Cathedral - St. Petersburg, Russia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Suspended underneath the peak of the dome is a sculpted dove representing the Holy Spirit.
		Internal features such as columns, pilasters, floor, and statue of Montferrand are composed of multicolored granites and marbles gathered from all parts of Russia.
		When these paintings began to deteriorate due to the cold, damp conditions inside the cathedral, Montferrand ordered them to be painstakingly reproduced as mosaics, a technique introduced in Russia by Mikhail Lomonosov.
	www.sacred-destinations.com /russia/st-petersburg-st-isaac-cathedral.htm (492 words)

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	1858 in architecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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		June 28 - Auguste de Montferrand (born 1786)
		This page was last modified 12:53, 4 October 2005.
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	Saint Isaac's Cathedral -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Russian Isaakiyevsky Sobor, iron-domed cathedral in St. Petersburg that was designed in Russian Empire style by Auguste de Montferrand.
		Reims was the site of 25 coronations of the kings of France, from Louis VIII in 1223 to Charles X in 1825, including the crowning of Charles VII in 1429 in the presence of Joan of Arc.
		The cathedral, which was begun in 1211 under the auspices of Archbishop Aubry de Humbert and...
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		August 17 August 17 - Friedrich II the Great, or Frederick the Great Frederick the Great, of Prussia Prussia "Monarchs/Presidents"
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		iron-domed cathedral in St. Petersburg that was designed in Russian Empire style by Auguste de Montferrand.
		Covering 2.5 acres (1 hectare), it was completed in 1858 after four decades of...
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	Palace Square (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		It was erected in 1834 in honor of the victory over Napoleon.
		The column was designed by Auguste de Montferrand, who also designed St. Issac's Cathedral.
		The Column was made of the rock face of a cliff in Karelia.
	www.nv.cc.va.us /home/itaraboukhin/StPetersburg/palaceSquare.htm (474 words)

	PROSPECTS #136 - here only Angels dare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		However, few people know the statue was once denounced by the Soviets, and it was only by chance that the angel is where it is today.
		The column itself was designed by Auguste de Montferrand to commemorate the Russian victory over Napoleon's army in 1812.
		It was made from a massive piece of granite found near the Gulf of Finland and was unveiled in 1834.
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	Alexander Column
		Named after Emperor Alexander I, who ruled Russia between 1801 and 1825 (during the Napoleonic Wars), the column is a terrific piece of architecture and engineering.
		The Alexander Column (Aleksandrovskaia Kolonna), the focal point of Palace Square, was designed by the French-born architect Auguste de Montferrand and built between 1830 and 1834.
		The monument is 155 feet 8 inches tall and is topped with a statue of an angel holding a cross (the face of the angel is said to be modeled on the face of Emperor Alexander I).
	www.saint-petersburg.com /virtual-tour/alexander-column.asp (223 words)

	Russian Holiday Ltd. The Cathedrals & Churches. Saint Petersburg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The French architect Auguste de Montferrand received the commission.
		The present version of the Cathedral, the fourth one, was built within 40 years from 1818 to 1858.
		In front of the cathedral you can see two statues to the generals under whose command the Russian armies fought the French: M. Kutuzov and Barklay de Tolli.
	www.rusholiday.com /churches.htm (600 words)

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