1831
Adam Menelaws Russian Architect
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Details
| First Name |
Adam
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| Last Name |
Menelaws
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| Birthday |
31st August, 1831
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| Birthplace |
presumably Edinburgh
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| Died |
31st August, 1831
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| Place of Death |
Saint Petersburg
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| Zodiac Sign |
Virgo
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| Nationality |
Russian
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| Occupation Text |
Architect
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| Occupation |
Architect
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Adam Menelaws, also spelled Menelas (born between 1748 and 1756, presumably in Edinburgh – died 31 August 1831 in Saint Petersburg, Russian: Адам Адамович Менелас) was an architect and landscape designer of Scottish origin, active in the Russian Empire from 1784 to 1831. Menelaws achieved success in the first two decades of the 19th century as the designer of town and country residences and parks of Razumovsky and Stroganov families, and later worked for emperor Alexander I, specializing in Gothic Revival architecture. From 1825 to 1831 Menelaws, then in his seventies, became the first house architect of Nicholas I and de facto the leading architect of the Empire. Except for this final, properly evidenced, stage, life story of Adam Menelaws remains scarcely documented and has been reconstructed by biographers based on sketchy archive data and circumstantial evidence; Menelaws still "belongs to the category of almost unknown".
