Today, in 1856, Russian architect Leonty Nikolayevich Benois was born in Peterhof. He was a master of St. Petersburg eclecticism, an academician since 1885, a professor since 1892, and a full member of the Imperial Academy of Arts since 1893, as well as an actual state councilor. It would be pointless to list all of Benois's designs, as there are more than 60 of them, and his surname speaks for itself. The main ones are the Singing Chapel, the Benois Building at the Russian Museum, the Benois House on Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt, the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes on Kovensky Lane, and St. George's Cathedral in Gus-Khrustalny.