Monument to Vasily Bazhenov and Matvey Kazakov
Description:
In 2007, in Moscow on Dolskaya Street in the village of Tsaritsyno, a pedestal was opened to the famous Russian architects Vasily Bazhenov and Matvey Kazakov.
The above architectural geniuses were the designers of the world-famous palace in Tsaritsyn. At the direction of Empress Catherine II, the Great architects were appointed chief designers and as a result brilliantly coped with the task assigned to them.
Vasily Bazhenov was the author of the Grand Kremlin Palace located on Borovitsky Hill. Classicist.
Matvey Kazakov was the designer and ideological inspirer of the arrangement of the central part of Moscow.
The creators of the composition dedicated to two outstanding architects were sculptor Leonid Baranov and architect Mikhail Mikhailovich Posokhin.
The monument is made of granite and bronze.