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bridges. They were the first in Saint Petersburg to be made from cast iron. From 1808 to 1832 Hastie was the head architect of Tsarskoye Selo. He created a general plan for construction in the town. From 1810 Hastie was involved in most urban construction projects in Russia.
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and other Tatar and Greek relics. Hastie left the southern provinces in June 1799, but returned to their architecture in the 1810s, producing a master plan for the redevelopment of
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which destroyed three quarters of the city Hastie was the first to propose a detailed redevelopment plan. It rejected for disregarding the historical background of the city.
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In February 1805 Hastie returned to Saint Petersburg and was assigned to building bridges over the city's smaller rivers. He built the
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Anthony Cross, ‘Hastie, William (1754/5–1832)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Oct 2009
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lists him as being born in 1763.) He came to Russia in 1784 with a group of 73 Scottish craftsmen hired in
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By the Banks of the Neva: Chapters from the Lives and Careers of the British in Eighteenth-century Russia
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The Empress & the Architect: British Architecture and Gardens at the Court of Catherine the Great
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See also Shvidkovsky, 1996, for a detailed description of Cameron's workforce in Tsarskoye Selo.
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made the most distinguished careers among this group, becoming notable professional architects.
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Kuznetsov, p. 213, provides a detailed account of this hiring and subsequent protest by the
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Hastie never returned to Scotland, and instead in 1792 he entered the service of the
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Korshunova, Miliza & Haskell, Larissa (1974). "William Hastie in Russia".
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descent. His name is also transliterated back from Russian as
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administration as its chief architect; in particular, in the
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William Hastie (disambiguation)
Scotland
Kingdom of Great Britain
Tsarskoye Selo
Saint Petersburg Governorate
Russian Empire
Pushkin, Saint Petersburg
Russia
Scottish
Russian
architect
civil engineer
town planner
Scottish
Scotland
Peterburg Necropolis
Edinburgh
Charles Cameron
Tsarskoe Selo
Adam Menelaws

Green bridge
Moyka River
Russian Imperial Chancellery
Yekaterinoslav Governorate
Crimea
Bakhchisaray Palace
Yekaterinoslav
Yekaterinoslav Governorate
Saint Petersburg

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