Petr
Andreevich Stavasser

Born in St. Petersburg, in 1816, eleven years old was identified pupils of the Imperial Academy of Arts and his dismissal from it, in 1833, due to her transformation, I received her full-time academics. The main tutor of his at the Academy was Professor S. Galberg . Stavasser quickly showed their brilliance and received two small silver medals (1835 and 1837), major silver medal (1838) and minor gold medal (in 1838, bas", "David playing before Saul on the harp""). Having completed the course in 1839 with the title of the artist XIV class and with a gold medal, awarded to him for the statue of ""the Young angler"" (a bronze copy of it is located in Peterhof, on the Tsaritsyn island; in addition to the aforesaid medals, she brought the artist another gold medal, established to recognize excellence in expression), Stowasser, waiting for his shipment at government expense to foreign lands, produced, along with his school friend Ant. Ivanov , a tombstone Off. Shchedrin in Sorrento, on the sketch of the deceased Gulbarga, fashioned for the academic Church, the relief of the angel stirring the water in the baptismal font of Siloam"", made in collaboration with Ivanov and a sketch of Gulbarga, colossal figure of the Muse Clio for Simbirsk Karamzin monument and performed a few portrait busts (his sister, the child of Prince Golitsyn, Mrs. Beck). Go finally abroad in 1841, he settled in Rome, where he made short excursions to other places of Italy. Here they manufactured, in addition to the busts of the architect of Eppinger , General Rajewski , count Belogorskogo, painter Sternberg (located in the Museum of the Academy of fine Arts) etc., the statue ""Praying angel"" (Prince Golitsyn) that brought him the title of academician in 1845, and a charming figure of a Mermaid (marble copy in the Museum of Emperor Alexander III in Saint-Petersburg) and the ""Nymph and Satyr, put her foot sandal"" (marble copy) is the best creation of the artist, more clearly than all his other work characterizing its direction, consisting in the connection of the ancient nobility of forms with genuine vitality, beauty in the production of shapes and smooth lines with meaningful expression. From the talented artist you can expect many more new, works perfect, but evil consumption prematurely stopped its further development. He died in Rome, in the spring, in 1850, His detailed biography is placed N. By Ramazanova in the "magazine"Russian Herald"," for 1863 (vol. XLIII, No. 1).