DOMENICO TREZZINI AND OTHER TICINESE MASTERS IN PIETROBURGO AND TALLINN AT THE BEGINNING OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

The activities and work of architect Domenico Trezzini (1670-1734), and the masters that arrived in Russia with him, have been researched for a long time, and many contentions have been concretised or disproven at various times. This article focuses on the issue of how masters from a single area - Ticino, Switzerland - ended up creating important fortifications, palaces and churches in the Russian Empire during the reign of Peter the Great at the beginning of 18th century. The author describes the movement of Trezzini and the Ticino masters from Copenhagen to Moscow as reported in various historical sources and the works of Danish and Russian researchers.