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Biography
Johann Gottfried Schaedel (German: Johann Gottfried Schädel) is an architect of Holy Roman Empire who moved to Muscovy in 1710s.
Schaedel was born in 1680 in Wandesbek, Duchy of Holstein, Holy Roman Empire (since the 1937 Greater Hamburg Act part of Hamburg).
In 1713 Schaedel along with his family was invited by the Muscovite Prince Alexander Menshikov to Saint Petersburg after singing a contract for 400 Reichsthaler (384 rubles). After the political persecutions against Menshikov, Schaedel moved to Moscow where he worked along with the French architect Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli.
In 1731 on invitation of the Kiev Archbishop Rafail Zaborovsky, Schaedel moved to Kiev where he created the great belltowers of Kiev Pechersk Lavra and Sophia Cathedral, the Klov Palace and others creations.
Since 1944 Schaedel was not receiving his salary and died very poor in Kiev, Cossack Hetmanate in 1752.
In 1995 the Ukrainian film director Valentyn Sokolovsky created a documentary on Schaedel at the National Television Company of Ukraine.
Creations
- Menshikov Palace (Saint Petersburg)
- Great Lavra Bell Tower
- Klov Palace