On September 20, 1744, in Bergamo, in the Venetian Republic, a great architect, draftsman, watercolorist, and veduta painter, perhaps the most prolific representative of Palladianism in Russian architecture, and honorary member of the Imperial Academy of Arts, Giacomo Antonio Domenico Quarenghi.
The English Palace in Peterhof, the Academy of Sciences building, the Hermitage Theater, the concert hall in Tsarskoye Selo, the Yusupov Palace on Sadovaya Street, the Small Gostiny Dvor, the Maltese Chapel, and many other buildings in St. Petersburg were built according to the designs of this great architect.