Background
Sherwood was born in Moscow. His father was the architect Vladimir Osipovich Sherwood and his brother was the architect Vladimir Vladimirovich Sherwood.
Sherwood was born in Moscow. His father was the architect Vladimir Osipovich Sherwood and his brother was the architect Vladimir Vladimirovich Sherwood.
Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.
His surname is often transliterated as Shervud. Leonid Shervud was responsible for the magnificent memorial to Admiral Stepan Makarov, killed at the battle of Tsushima during the Russo-Japanese war, erected in 1913 on Yakornaya Ploshchad ("Anchor Square") in front of the Naval Cathedral of Saint Nicolas in Kronshtadt, the headquarters of the Russian Imperial Navy. Sherwood chose to use as the pedestal a 160-ton granite rock originally cut for a monument to Peter the Great in front of Kazan Cathedral, which sunk in transit to Saint St. Petersburg.
The bottom of the rock is engraved with the words: "Remember war".
This was the personal motto of Stepan Makarov. Sherwood was one of the first sculptors to be involved in monumental Soviet sculpture after the revolution and was responsible for many official busts and other monumental statues.
He was also the architect of the Swallow"s Nest, a decorative castle in the Crimea. Sherwood was educated at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1886-1891) and the Imperial Academy of Arts, Street St. Petersburg (1892-1898).
He was a pupil of Vladimir Aleksandrovich Beklemishev.
He was an exchange student in Paris in 1899-1900, where he became a pupil of Rodin. Returning to Russia, he lived in Petrograd and was employed by Vladimir Lenin for monumental sculpture. He taught sculpture at the Academy of Arts in Petrograd.
He died in Leningrad, aged 83.