Russian architect, educator and historian of art of Byzantine Empire, Georgia and Armenia. He belonged to the second generation of Russian neo-Byzantine architects and was the author of orthodox cathedrals in Tbilisi, Chersonesos and smaller churches in Russia and Western Europe. He was a long-term professor at the Imperial Academy of Arts and chaired its Department of Architecture in 1887-1892. He completed the class of Alexander Brullov at the Imperial Academy of Arts in 1841-1848. His graduation honours entitled him to take an Academy-sponsored study tour of Italy and France, but it was cancelled due to the revolutions of 1848 in Europe. In 1858 empress Maria Alexandrovna commissioned Grimm to design the cathedral in Chersonesos, on the site of a Greek church where Vladimir I of Kiev was baptized in 988. Among other commission were the Romanovs, a Byzantine chapel in Nice commemorating the late Nicholas Alexandrovich, was completed in less than two years, 1866–1868). In the next twenty years Grimm designed numerous Orthodox "embassy churches" in Geneve, Copenhagen and Jerusalem; according to the state preference, they were executed in the Russian Revival theme of 17th century Yaroslavl architecture. The last design, the burial vault of Grand Dukes in Peter and Paul Fortress, remained on paper: after his death, the project was taken over by Antony Tomischko, who also died soon, and the Vault was redesigned and completed by Leon Benois in Baroque style.
Russian architect, educator and historian of art of Byzantine Empire, Georgia and Armenia. He belonged to the second generation of Russian neo-Byzantine architects and was the author of orthodox cathedrals in Tbilisi, Chersonesos and smaller churches in Russia and Western Europe. He was a long-term professor at the Imperial Academy of Arts and chaired its Department of Architecture in 1887-1892. He completed the class of Alexander Brullov at the Imperial Academy of Arts in 1841-1848. His graduation honours entitled him to take an Academy-sponsored study tour of Italy and France, but it was cancelled due to the revolutions of 1848 in Europe. In 1858 empress Maria Alexandrovna commissioned Grimm to design the cathedral in Chersonesos, on the site of a Greek church where Vladimir I of Kiev was baptized in 988. Among other commission were the Romanovs, a Byzantine chapel in Nice commemorating the late Nicholas Alexandrovich, was completed in less than two years, 1866–1868). In the next twenty years Grimm designed numerous Orthodox "embassy churches" in Geneve, Copenhagen and Jerusalem; according to the state preference, they were executed in the Russian Revival theme of 17th century Yaroslavl architecture. The last design, the burial vault of Grand Dukes in Peter and Paul Fortress, remained on paper: after his death, the project was taken over by Antony Tomischko, who also died soon, and the Vault was redesigned and completed by Leon Benois in Baroque style.
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