Alexandrovich as well as of the Anichkov Palace. He also worked on the Palace of Tsar Alexander III in Massandra, Crimea, which was finished after the tsar's assassination. Messmacher's works are distinctive due to a refined expressiveness of the silhouette, grandeur and diversity of artistic and decorative techniques for the facades and for the interiors. Eclecticism. Part of his work also concerned the design and decoration of churches, Messmacher was in charge of the restoration of Saint Isaac's Cathedral and in 1882 was appointed the chief architect of the church), One of Messmacher's last works is the interior of the St. Peter's Lutheran Church (1895–97). After 1897, Maximilan Messmacher moved to Germany and worked mostly there. He died in 1906 in Dresden, Germany and is interred at the Lutheran cemetery Johannisfriedhof. Main projects Interior decoration of the residence of Prince Gagarin (1873–1874) on Bolshaya Morskaya Street Nr.45 Icon screen of the Smolny Convent (1873–1875) Church of Saints Kosma and Damyan at the Guards Battalion on Kirochnaya Street Nr. 28a (1876–1879) Reconstruction of the Building of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts on Bolshaya Morskaya Street Nr. 38 (1877–1878) Restoration of Saint Isaac's Cathedral (1877–1888) Decoration of the private chapel of Count Stroganov on Tchaikovsky Street Nr. 11 (1878–1879) Interior decoration of the Vladimir Palace on Dvortsovy Embankment Nr. 26 (1882–1885) Palace of Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich on Moika Embankment Nr. 122 (1882–1885) Building of the State Archives on Millionnaya Street Nr. 36 Building of Baron von Stieglitz's Central School of Technical Drawing on Solyanoi Lane Nr. 13 (1885–1886) Palace of Grand Duke Mikhail Mikhailovich on Admiralty Embankment Nr. 8 (1885–1888) Building of the Stieglitz Museum on Solyanoi Lane Nr.15 (1885–1896) Interior decoration of the Anichkov Palace on Nevsky Prospekt Nr. 39 (1886–1887) Manege and stables of N.M. Polovtsov on the Kryukov Canal Embankment Nr. 12 (1887) Interior decoration of the Palace of Grand Duke Pavel Alexandrovich on Angliyskaya Embankment Nr. 68 (1888–1892) Interior decoration of the Palace of Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich (1888–1892) Interior decoration of the residence of Alexander Alexandrovich Polovtsov on Bolshaya Morskaya Street Nr. 52 (1888–1892) Massandra Villa of Tsar Alexander III in the Crimea (1892–1900) Interior decoration of St. Peter's Lutheran Church on Nevsky Prospekt Nr. 22-24 (1896–1899) See also List of Russian artists References 19th-century painters from the Russian Empire Russian male painters 20th-century Russian painters Architects from Saint Petersburg 1842 births 1906 deaths