Vikentiy
Ivanovich Beretti

Professor of architecture. Son of diamond business of the master. In 1803, while still a student of the St. Petersburg Academy of arts, Beretta received an assistant to Thomas de Tomona and participated in the development of the project of the building of the St. Petersburg exchange. After graduating from the Academy in 1804, he was appointed city architect in St. Petersburg. In 1831 a Professor of architecture. In 1835, started in Kiev started the construction of a University building your project; in Kiev he began the construction of the Institute for noble maidens and the Astronomical Observatory. But all these started Beretti building was completed by his son Alexander Beretti. Of other buildings Beretti it should be noted the front of the house of the former. St. Petersburg military Governor-generalship. (Lit.: Petrov, P. N., The collection of materials on the history of the Academy of arts, vol I and II, 1864-65; Aleshin, I. F.)