Copenhagen and the Church of Mary Magdalene in Jerusalem; according to the state preference, they were executed in the Russian Revival theme of 17th century Yaroslavl architecture. In 1865 Grimm and Robert Gedike jointly took part in the contest to design a new cathedral in Tbilisi but lost to Victor Schroeter and Alexander Huhn. Schroeter-Huhn proposal, if executed, would have been the largest Neo-Byzantine structure of its time. The client - viceroy of the Caucasus Mikhail Nikolayevich - dismissed the Schroeter-Huhn proposal as too expensive; he supported the Grimm-Gedike draft but instructed the architects to decrease its size to cut costs. The building that was completed in 1871-1897 followed the original Russian scheme of a single dome with four symmetrical apses created by Roman Kuzmin in 1861, yet Grimm changed his proportions to create a tall, vertical silhouette. Grimm's draft, publicised in the 1860s, paved the road to numerous variations of the same single-dome layout and was perfected by Vasily Kosyakov in the 1880s. Grimm's last design, the burial vault of Grand Dukes in Peter and Paul Fortress, remained on paper: after Grimm's 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. David Grimm was buried at Smolenskoe Lutheran Cemetery in Saint Petersburg. His son, Hermann Grimm () (1865–1942), was also a successful architect; grandson, Hermann Grimm () (1904–1959) was an educator and historian of art. Buildings Cathedral of Saint Vladimir in Chersonesos (draft 1858-1859, completed 1897) Grand Ducal Burial Vault at the Peter and Paul Cathedral Church of Saint Olga in the grand ducal manor of Mikhailovka, Strelna (1861–1863) Completion of German Refomist church in Saint Petersburg (draft 1862 by Harald Julius von Bosse, completed 1865) Chapel to the memory of late Nicholas Alexandrovich, Nice (draft 1866, completed 1868) Cathedral of Saint Alexander Nevsky, Tbilisi (draft 1865-1870, completed 1897) Moika Embankment, 42 (Saint Petersburg), 1867–1870 Church of Protection in Gatchina, completed 1883 Church of Saint Alexander Nevsky, Copenhagen (completed 1883 by Albert Nielsen) References Savelyev, Yu. R. Vizantiysky stil v architecture Rossii (Савельев, Ю. Р. Византийский стиль в архитектуре России. - СПБ., 2005) Saint Petersburg, 2005. , pp. 36–56, 245 Savelyev, Yu. R. Iskusstvo istorizma i gosudarstvernny zakaz (Савельев, Ю. Р. Искуство историзма и государственный заказ. - М., 2008) Moscow, 2008. 1823 births 1898 deaths 19th-century architects from the Russian Empire Burials