Education
He was apprenticed to Georg Veldten and Giacomo Quarenghi, then went on a successful career on his own.
He was apprenticed to Georg Veldten and Giacomo Quarenghi, then went on a successful career on his own.
Among the surviving buildings he designed are:
the Skorbyashchenskaya Church in Saint St. Petersburg;
the Bobrinsky Palace on the Moika Embankment;
the Zubov family mausoleum in Strelna;
the Nikolskaya Tower of the Moscow Kremlin;
the Nizhyn Lyceum;
the Gostiny Dvor in Podil, Kiev;
the triumphal arches in Novocherkassk and Dikanka. Several boulevards in Saint St. Petersburg (including the modern-day Admiralty Garden) and the Neoclassical interiors at Ropsha, Gatchina, and the Anichkov Palace are also the work of Luigi Rusca and his associates. In 1810, Rusca published an album of "standardised facades for private twoand three-storeyed houses in towns throughout Russia".
Many of his designs lacked originality and were never carried out.