The cathedral. Romance with architecture

An amazing, but reliable story telling about the fate of the great architect Auguste Montferrand, who survived many adventures in war, in love, and in a professional field. The whole life for Montferrand was the construction of the St. Isaac"s Cathedral in St. Petersburg. That is why this person, despite his French origin, can rightfully be considered a Russian architect.
For decades, fate itself kept it - did not allow him to die in the Napoleonic wars, to die of the walls of the French prison, and be on a scaffold on false charges of treason. Despite everything, Montferrand did not despair and did not disassemble in himself, faced with the Russian bureaucracy, intrigues at the Russian imperial court and the betrayal of a faithful friend. Even the plague spared him so that he managed to complete his titanic work, work for the glory of Russia.

The book was published with the blessing of the Metropolitan of St. Petersburg and Ladoga Barsonuphius