Today, in 1759, the great Russian architect Andrei Nikiforovich Voronikhin was born into the family of a clerk from the serfs belonging to Count Alexander Sergeevich Stroganov in the village of Novoye Usolye, Solikamsk District, Kazan Province.
What more needs to be said when the architect is the designer of the Stroganov Palace on Nevsky Prospekt, Kazan Cathedral, the Mining Institute, and the interiors of the palaces in Peterhof, Strelna, Gatchina, and Pavlovsk?