Background
Mikhail Fedorovich Peterson was Born on July 26, 1827 in Tver Region, Russia
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Mikhail Fedorovich Peterson
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Graduated from the Railway Engineers Institute (St. Petersburg, 1847).
Career
Assistant of the Voronezh's provincial architect (1847-1850). Architect's manufacturing jobs assistant at the provincial constructional and road committee (since 1850). In the summer of 1856, he was sent to Moscow to prepare the fireworks for the ceremony of the coronation of Emperor Alexander II. In 1857 he moved to St. Petersburg, served in the Ministry of Railways. St. Petersburg chief architect (1876-1879). He built more than 10 residential buildings in St. Petersburg. In 1848 he fulfilled an unrealized project of expansion of the Saviour's Church in Voronezh. In 1863 he created the drawings for the tombstone of Ivan Savvich Nikitin, a Russian poet. Two of Peterson's letters addressed to St. Petersburg to his uncle, architect Nikolai Leontyevich Benoit, were published (1847-1848).
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Mikhail has a daughter: Olga Peterson.
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- Olga Peterson
Olga was a literary historian, translator, writer.
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Russian