"Of the children of the spiritual order." He studied at the Moscow University, then at the SPb Academic gymnasium. A graduate of the Academy of arts from 1758 To 1762 was sent abroad pensioner of the Academy of arts. In 1768 the title of "assigned". In 1769, the title of academician for the "project land gentry corps"; in the same year, determined acting associate Professor of architecture. In 1770 – adjunct Professor. In 1772 dismissed, on petition, "the Commission buildings in St. Petersburg and Moscow." Since 1785, Professor of the Academy of arts. In 1791 determined by the member of the Academy of arts. In 1794 adjunct rector of the Academy of arts. Member of the Commission structure of the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg. Work: the Tavricheskiy Palace (1782), the Cathedral in the Alexander Nevsky monastery, the Cathedral in Sofia, the Palace in Pele and others.
(Kondakov)
