In 1783 he entered "helper for construction in Moscow". In 1808, SPb Academy of arts received the title of "assigned" and the same year enlisted in the Cabinet of His Imperial Majesty. In 1811, the title of academician for the "project of the monument to the fallen soldiers at Poltava". From 1826 a member of the Building Committee of St. Isaac's Cathedral. Honorary free member of the Academy of arts from 1827 Built: Pavlovskie barracks, the building of the Court-the stables office to the Church; the bell tower in the village of the Georgian; the Triumphal arch, the Moscow gate in St. Petersburg; the Cathedral of the Transfiguration; Trinity Cathedral of the Izmailovsky regiment, and others.
(Kondakov)