The Rastrelli Monument
Description:
Count Bartolome'o Francesco Rastrelli (Italian Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli also Francesco Rastrelli, Bartholome'i Bartholomew Rastrelli 1700, Paris - until April 29, 1771) - Russian architect of Italian origin, academician of architecture of the Imperial Academy of Arts (1771). The most striking representative of the so-called Elizabethan Baroque. The son of the Russified Italian B.K. Rastrelli (1675-1744).
The monument in Tsarskoye Selo was erected next to the Catherine Palace in 1991 by the project of Maria Litovchenko.