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Gordeyev, Fyodor (Gordeyevich)
(b ?Tsarskoye Selo [now Pushkin], 1744; d St Petersburg, 23 Jan 1810). Russian sculptor. The son of a cowherd from Tsarskoye Selo, he studied (1759–67) at the Academy of Arts in St Petersburg under Nicolas-François Gillet, and he completed his education in Paris (1767–9) under Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne (ii) and in Rome (1769–72). The only surviving example of Gordeyev’s work from this period is a statue of Prometheus (plaster, 1769; Moscow, Tret’yakov Gal.), which shows his classical orientation. He returned to Russia in 1772 and soon began teaching at the Academy of Arts. From 1777 he was in charge of the sculpture class there, and he was a professor from 1782.
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