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(1) Ivan (Ivanovich) Terebenyov
(b St Petersburg, 21 May 1780; d St Petersburg, 28 Jan 1815). Sculptor and graphic artist. He studied at the Academy of Arts in St Petersburg from 1785 to 1800. In 1800 he provided a bronze low relief, the Poltava Batallion, for the base of the monument to Peter I by Bartolomeo Carlo Rastrelli, erected in front of the Mikhaylovsky Palace. After a short period of work in Tver’ he returned to St Petersburg at the end of 1806 to work as a caricaturist and as a decorative sculptor in individual city houses. Among his works from this period are the reliefs depicting the Judgement of Paris, the Birth of Cupid and scenes from the Life of Alexander the Great (plaster, c. 1809–10; St Petersburg, Anichkov Pal.).
Part of the Terebenyov family
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