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Pimenov, Stepan (Stepanovich)
(b St Petersburg, 1784; d St Petersburg, 3 April 1833). Russian sculptor. He studied at the Academy of Arts in St Petersburg from 1795 to 1803 under Mikhail Kozlovsky. One of his first works was the design for Kozlovsky’s tombstone (plaster, 1802; St Petersburg, Rus. Mus.). He later created a number of monumental statues for buildings in St Petersburg including St Vladimir (bronze, 1804–7) and St Aleksandr Nevsky (bronze, 1807–11; both St Petersburg, Kazan’ Cathedral) and a Hercules and Antaeus (Pudozh stone, 1809–11; St Petersburg, Plekhanov Mining Inst.).
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