Iosif Iosifovich Charlemagne
Iosif Iosifovich Charlemagne, or Sharleman (Russian:Иосиф Иосифович Шарлемань, 13 April 1824, Saint Petersburg - 8 May 1870, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian architect and painter of French ancestry; son of the architect Iosif Ivanovich Charlemagne. Biography He began his education at Saint Peter's School (Saint Petersburg), Saint Peter's School, a German-language institution, then attended the Imperial Academy of Arts, where he studied architecture with Alexander Brullov. He graduated in 1846, with the title of "Free Artist". Two years later, he entered into service at the Imperial Court; becoming an assistant to . One of his first projects involved work on the "", which kept him occupied until 1851. Later, he served as an assistant to Auguste de Montferrand, and helped to draft the plans for a monument to Tsar Nicholas I of Russia, Nicholas I, under the direction of Nicholas Benois. His work was largely concerned with cost estimates and creating images o ...
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''The'' () is a grammatical Article (grammar), article in English language, English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the Most common words in English, most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when fol ...
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