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Vasily Ivanovich Demuth-Malinovsky ( 1779 - 1846 ) was a Russia n Sculptor whose works represent the quintessence of the Empire Style .

He entered the Imperial Academy Of Arts at the age of six and studied under Mikhail Kozlovsky for fifteen years. Upon the death of his teacher, he won a competition to design his tomb and departed for Rome to study with Canova . Success came to him with two colossal statues for the Kazan Cathedral in St Petersburg .

In the aftermath of the Russian victory over Napoleon , Demuth-Malinovsky executed a number of patriotic pieces, including a tomb and a large statue of Barclay De Tolly in Estonia . Later Alexander I assigned to him the task of preparing bas-reliefs symbolizing the Neva and the Volga for the Alexander Column on Palace Square .

Demuth-Malinovsky also designed statuary and decorations for other St Petersburg churches, palaces, and public monuments, especially those designed by , and the Mikhailovsky Palace .