Domenico Quadri

He was born on 2 October 1772 in Cassina (Agno), near Lugano in Switzerland’s Italian-speaking Ticino canton. He worked on numerous palaces and private residences in Saint Petersburg, alongside his countrymen Giovanni Battista Belli-Bernasconi and Giovanni Battista Lucchini of Montagnola, and Gerolamo Rusca of Agno. He lived in Gatchina, where he was also responsible for many buildings. Father of a son Viktor, born in Russia, who became a major in the Tsarist army and married Antonina Alexeyvna Bibikova. He was the grandfather of Vladimir Viktorovich Kvadri (1859-?), a Russian and Soviet military engineer and writer, and Viktor Viktorovich Kvadri (1861-1908), an important Russian military author and archaeologist. He returned from Russia in 1827 and died on 12 January 1833 in Milan.

• Sheremetyev Palace • Razumovsky Palace • Residences on Nevsky Prospekt • Shcherbatov Mansion (now the Kirovets Centre of Culture and Leisure). • Church of Saint Nicholas (Lutheran) in Gatchina.