Ivan Ivanovich
Terebenev

Sculptor and draughtsman, he entered the pupils of the Imperial Academy of Arts and prepared her to be a painter, but soon took up sculpture at the end of the academic year with the title of the artist and a small gold medal in 1800, was left at the Academy retired for improvement, but the oppressive rules of a pensioner's life, soon left the Academy. Until 1805 he lived in St. Petersburg, then moved to Tver, to the position of art teacher at the local high school, and in 1807 he retired and settled again in St. Petersburg. Sculpture he was engaged in no Hobbies, though, and got some fame. The most important of his works on this branch of the art - large ornamental reliefs on the building of the Admiralty, bas-reliefs and statues decorating a Narva triumphal arch, and several figures modelled for the hall in the exchange building in Saint Petersburg. All in all, he's famous for his cartoons of the war of 1812 (43 sheets). (Cumans)