Today, in 1769, architect Vasily Petrovich Stasov, one of the most prominent representatives of late classicism and Empire in the times of Alexander I and Nicholas I, was born into a poor noble family.
According to his designs, many buildings were built and reconstructed in St. Petersburg, without which it is impossible to imagine the look of our city today - the Transfiguration Cathedral, the barracks of the Pavlovsk Life Guards Regiment, the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum, the Narva Triumphal Gates, the Trinity-Ismailov Cathedral, the complex of buildings of the Smolny Monastery and many others.